Anglophile

Behind the Scenes of The Runaway Bride - Part Nine

Excerpt from Benjamin Cook’s “Along came a Spider” article in DWM 378

Russell is delighted: “It’s marvelous! The Empress of the Racnoss surrounded by fire, and water, and screaming,” enthuses Russell, “and what brilliant casting, and prosthetics, and model work, and digital work, and there - amongst all this destruction - is the Doctor! In that moment, he becomes an ancient Time Lord, full of revenge. Never mind the effects, never mind the water; it’s the interplay between Sarah Parish [Empress of the Racnoss], and David Tennant, and Catherine Tate, that’s what it’s about. Ooh, it’s lovely! I absolutely love it.”

“Don’t you like spiders?” the Empress asks a small boy. Actually, it’s one of Phil Collinson’s nephews. He’s visiting his uncle at work.

“No,” he answers, “cos you’re not hairy. I don’t like hairy.”

“Would you be scared if I were hairy?” she asks him.  “I’m hairy underneath the costume!”

David has starred opposite Sarah before - in the 2004 musical serial Blackpool, and the Tony Marchant drama Recovery. “I’ve known her for so long,” he says, “that it’d be slightly bizarre if I tried to turn some sort of charm offensive on her. I think she’d see through that immediately. You just try to be a nice person. You want to make everyone feel comfortable, but it’d be slightly pompous of me to see it as my job to make sure that everyone is having a good time. Hopefully, the atmosphere on set is such that people feel relaxed and happy, and that’s the best way of working. I’m not very good at working if there’s any kind of tension there.”

And here are some more ex-nails.

This looks like something Terry would have given the Nac mac Feegle. (NB, must glow blue in the presence of lawyers…)

If you want something bigger, there are plenty of photos of handsome knives made from old US railroad spikes…

This one is so well-finished that it looks incomplete without a proper grip; of course a grip would conceal its origin. YMMV. Swings and roundabouts..

Not just knives…

There are even swords (with extra metal added, of course).

There’s an attractive Middle Earth Elvish look to these.

Prints, Stickers and Pins by May Fan on Instagram and Tumblr

deer are smaller than you think

raccoons are bigger than you think

bears are smaller than you think but you were pretty close

otters are bigger than you think no even bigger than that

wolves are bigger than you think

wild cats are smaller than you think but hopefully you’ll never see one

chipmunks are smaller than you think

so are mice but you’ve seen a mouse right

you were right about the size of moose, mostly

pigs are bigger than you think

coyotes are that size

so are foxes

woops bears are bigger than you think but only that one type

Photo of David Tennant with Peter Davison, Colin Baker & Sophie Aldred yesterday

A David-Ruffling-His-Hair collection (Part Two)

David Tennant and his collection of Mr. Men shirts (I should probably tag @thingsdtwears… and add a Madison photo source)

Edited to add a bonus - the official Dr. Tenth Mr Men book [ source ]!!