Loved David Tennant As Dr. Who. He Was The Best Actor Playing That Role In My Experience.

Loved David Tennant as Dr. Who. He was the best actor playing that role in my experience.

Behind the Scenes of The End of Time - Part Ten

David Tennant, Catherine Tate, and Euros Lyn from the DVD commentary:

[talking about End of Time Part One after part of David’s suit gets burned] David Tennant: Now we just saw one of the Doctor’s suits being incernated, which was not a happy time for Louise Page, our costume designer.

Catherine Tate:  No - I bet.

DT: She was very sad, because there were only a few left - particularly the brown suit, which was made out of a material that we could no longer get any access to, so there would never be another one.

CT: So you couldn’t even replicate it?

DT: No, ‘cause that material has gone.

Euros Lyn: How many suits did you have?

DT: There was always a bit of a mystery about it, and I was never quite told…

CT & EL: [ Laughter ]

DT: I think that’s because Louise was protecting them, like a cat protects her kittens.  She was very proprietorial - quite right too.  She looked after those costumes very lovingly, and the thought that one of them would have to be trashed… In fact, in this episode, two of them end up getting trashed because one at the end gets all slashed and burnt.  She was very nervous of that.  I mean, you know, this is the final story they’re going to be used in, so it had to be done, but… yes, she was very manful about it in the end but she found it pretty tough.

CT: Not without a struggle.

EL:  What happens when Matt wears it at the end?   Was he wearing your suit?

DT: Well he was wearing the cut-up one… No!  No, that’s not true.  Because I get cut but then I change back, don’t I.  He was just wearing one of the suits.

EL: One of the spare ones.

DT: But I’m not quite sure what happens in his first episode.  I think he then maybe uses the one that got a bit torn up in ours, because doesn’t it get a bit torn up in… I don’t know maybe we shouldn’t talk about that.  That’s probably a secret.  Sorry Steven Moffat.  Yes, those suits are high currency because we can never make them again. 

EL: So did you get any of your costumes?

DT: I did. Louise very kindly gave me one of everything

CT & EL:  Awwwwwww

DT: Yeah.  So I’ve got one brown suit, one blue suit, and versions of all the shirts and ties and various combinations

CT: Oh, brilliant

DT: …and the tux, I’ve got that as well.  I think with the proviso that, come “The Fourteen Doctors” in 2020 I’m expected to provide my own costume.

CT & EL: [ Laughter ]

Other posts from this set can be found here: [ one ] [ two ] [ three ] [ four ] [ five ] [ six ] [ seven ] [ eight ] [ nine ]

The rest of the behind-the-scenes photosets are available [ here ]

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