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Behind the Scenes of Planet of the Ood (Part Six)

Does Ayesha [Dharker, who plays corporate drone Solana] not think her character’s black, knee-high boots might be in danger of overly exciting Saturday night viewers? “My only criterion for buying these boots,” she laughs, “was that I could run in them, and run preferably as fast as David Tennant. He’s got much longer legs than me, because I’m five-foot-nothing and he’s six feet tall! I saw him running in a previous episode and I thought, ‘I’m not going to lag three blocks behind, going ‘What for me!’ So when I tried them on in Selfridges, I asked the man if I could run around the store.  He looked at me very strangely…”

David will be leaving this afternoon, in order to attend an awards ceremony, which entails “a mad dash up and down the M4.” What’ll he do in the car? “I’ll have lines to learn, I imagine,” he says.  “I always do.”

Link to [ part one ] of the Planet of the Ood Behind-the-scenes posts, or click the whoBtsOod tag, or the full episode list [ here]