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Interview: 'Doctor Who' co-star Alex Kingston, Part 1

On filming in Monument Valley, keeping secrets from her co-stars and more


As I explained yesterday, the new season of "Doctor Who- the first one to air day-and-date in both American and the UK, and the first to feature filming on location in America - debuts on BBC America on Saturday night at 9. And last week, I went to BBC America's New York offices to interview Matt Smith, Alex Kingston and Karen Gillan. I posted the Smith interview in two parts yesterday, and Gillan will be posted tomorrow.

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Today, though, it's Alex Kingston's turn. She's not a regular castmember, but producer Steven Moffat has made her time-traveling archaeologist character River Song just as important as the ongoing companions - in some ways more, since River and the Doctor have such a complicated, and possibly intimate, relationship.

In part 1 of the interview (part 2 is here), Kingston and I talk about how it felt to film in Monument Valley, at what stages she's learned things about River and the Doctor's relationship that even Smith doesn't know, and more.

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Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com

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    The Director

    Production quality is to bad to continue on watching this. Why didn't you mic Alex, and who is your TD? cause they need to be replaced you never film in front of a window like that on a sunny day, your white balance is non-existence and your auto-focus is picking up more on things in the background than your subject.

    Your super needs to be less blurry it looks as if you just slapped your logo in the corner and dialed down the opacity rather than make a proper super that has the foreground completely visible and your background fully transparent.

    April 21, 2011 at 9:18PM EST Reply to Comment
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    belinda

    Wow, thanks for all the DW interviews galore! Must have been a fun day even though Smith sounds deathly sick.

    Would there be a Moffat interview at some point? Or he's not in NY?

    April 21, 2011 at 9:40PM EST Reply to Comment

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