just smiling. Steven always says to me that if the Doctor isn't funny then he's nothing at all. He's got to be funny; he's got to have that sense of humour about him. He's like a child in so many ways. I think that stuff is interesting. But that's the great thing about the part really, that's why you can keep reinventing it. What does scare you in real life particular when you were growing up? I was exposed to Friday The 13 th far too young which was just horrific. That scared me! With Doctor Who people say the Angels scared them the most from the recent series. That's a very interesting question though because I think for children to be scared early on has an interesting value about it. What's great about the show is that when young fans watch it they're scared and then hopefully when the Doctor arrives that fear becomes less because they know that character is there to resolve it. In The God Complex what did you see in that room? That's a good question do you really want me to tell you... the thing is we don't know what we're supposed to be seeing in there but trying to be cryptic about it... what I imagined he saw was ten men hanging from ten nooses but one noose free or an 11 th man, so that's what I thought he saw. Before you started attending fan events had you ever gone to get