Celebrating 50 years of , the of SFX brings you a world exclusive interview with Steven Moffat, talking anniversary tale "The Day Of The Doctor".
Golden anniversary epic "The Da🤪y Of The Doctor" finds David Tennant laughing in the face of the First Law of Time to team up with his successor, Matt Smith. But just how do Ten and Eleveཧn get on? Friendship or friction?
"I wrote it as the friction version," Steven Moffat tells SFX.﷽ "When you’re talking to yourself there are no limitations, there’s no holding back. You wouldn’t be kind or courteous. At the same time, because they are two lovable, madcap, caffeinated Doctors, they’re also quite fanb♋oyish about each other. They think it’s quite cool. They’re not broody, upset Doctors – it’s more “There’s two of us! Brilliant!” But that’s mostly in the playing, because they were having such a good time together that they brought that out. They get giggly with each other. It is, by lovely accident, a tremendous double-act.They’re naturally funny together. Enough alike and enough dissimilar. Matt said it was like Laurel and Laurel, as if Hardy didn’t show up – except he does in the form of John Hurt!"
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Nick Setchfield is the Editor-at-Large for SFX Magazine, writing features, reviews, interviews, and more for the monthly issues. However, he is also a freelance journalist and author with Titan Books. His original novels are called The War in the Dark, and The Spider Dance. He's also written a book on James B🐬ond called Mission Statements.
