A new issue of Doctor Who Magazine goes on sale tomorrow. It features my in-depth interview with Sophie Aldred, who played trailblazing 1980s companion Ace. Here’s what she has to say about twenty-first-century companions Rose and Amy:
“There was such a lot of good about Ace in terms of connecting with an audience, and the reality and naturalism of the character, which Rose took up with a vengeance. Rose is much more emotionally developed and rounded a person, and she’s not so f***ed up, but I’d like to think that there is a connection… We never thought, at the time, how far-reaching our episodes would be – especially now, with this rebirth of the series, people discovering our episodes for the first time. It would be interesting to see what Amy Pond thought of Ace…”
Also in DWM 441, I interview Canton actors Mark Sheppard (“It’s time for a guy who’s not mincing around the screen, shouting at everybody that they’re repressing him”) and his dad, W Morgan Sheppard (“Canton is anarchic. He is very anti-authority. He deals with his life in his own particularly eccentric way”); in her first Production Notes, executive producer Caroline Skinner recounts her trip Down Under for the Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular; Toby Hadoke and Johnny Candon argue whether rewriting history is ever justified; 1964 serial The Keys of Marinus is scrutinised in The Fact of Fiction; the Time Team goes back to school to watch 2006 episode School Reunion; the Doctor is at the mercy of Zeus in the final, world-changing installment of Scott Gray and Mike Collins’ The Chains of Olympus comic strip… and all the latest news, reviews, previews, and competitions.
Doctor Who Magazine is available from all good newsagents.
EDIT (23:30, 07/03): This is nice. RT @sophie_aldred: @benjamin_cook Thanks to you for the great interview in DWM. It’s just what I actually said, for a change. (07/03/2012 22:44)
