Hugh Bonneville discusses his experience making Doctor Who

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The Paddington star speaks to Yahoo UK about how impressive Matt Smith was while filming The Curse of the Black Spot during his tenure as the Eleventh Doctor.

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00:00Doctor Who, which you got to be in that in such a fun episode with Matt Smith,

00:04I wonder, you got to be a pirate of all things, which is such a fun thing to do in Doctor Who.

00:08What was that like, especially working with Matt Smith, Stephen Moffat and Karen Gillan,

00:12who obviously are reuniting now in Douglas' cast?

00:14Yeah, it was great. I remember we had a sort of read through and it was the end of one of,

00:18they were shooting a previous episode and Matt and Karen came in looking absolutely exhausted

00:22because those days on set, particularly for Matt and the energy he had to bring to the role,

00:27was absolutely, you know, punishing. And we did a sort of rehearsal read through

00:34and he absolutely, again, his leadership and his energy was exemplary. And I realised then

00:40and there that I could never play Doctor Who because I'd never had that much energy

00:44or the capacity to retain so much, you know, fantastical dialogue as he did.

00:50But Karen and Matt were wonderfully welcoming and we went and did a few,

00:53I remember a few very cold nights filming on a ship down in Cornwall, I think probably with

00:58rain machines and certainly with a bit of brandy at the end of the night to try and keep us warm.

01:03But they were great, they were great hosts for a guest artist like me.

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