I don’t think there’s any way you could spruce it up, really, because you can’t wash it or anything. “We Super Glued them on – I had sticking plasters on the back of the jacket, they put them on with nylon see-through thread, and they’d still fall off. You might have to sew the badges on again, though.’ Because the badges notoriously always fell off.” Ray Holman said, ‘Can we borrow this to copy?’ and I said, ‘Why copy it? We’ll just use the jacket. He said, ‘Have you? We’d love to see your jacket!’ So the first costume fitting, I took the jacket down to Cardiff. “When I had that initial meeting with Chris, I said, ‘I’ve still got my jacket…’. Here’s another exclusive first-look image from The Power Of The Doctor – this time showing as Ace in her iconic jacket… Read the full feature in the new issue of SFX, on sale from 5 October! #DoctorWho /PrbQyRBLvB So I took my jacket, and it’s sat in my wardrobe for all these years. “Back in the day, John Nathan-Turner, at the end of filming, said to Sylvester and me, ‘You might as well take your costumes home with you, because you’re probably going to be asked to do personal appearances before the next season’ I kind of wonder whether he knew it wasn’t going to happen and wanted us to be the guardians of those costumes. One of the most exciting things revealed in SFX is that Ace’s bomber jacket with the patches is back. “I do like the idea of being an action hero, if you want – some people don’t want to be like that. I wanted to show that women of my age can be still as feisty and fit and gung-ho as ever.” “I wanted to show that women of a certain age are visible,” Aldred told SFX, “That actually we’ve still got it. I thought, it wasn’t like this in the old days, when I was covered in bruises from going: ‘Yeah, I’ll just jump out of a window, no problem…’” They’d obviously thought, ‘Oh yeah, she’s mad enough to do all her own stunts.’ The first one we did was the sequence with the guns you see in the trailer, and even though we only had to run a really short distance, they really looked after us, padding up our elbows and knees. “Then, after a day or two, I noticed ‘stunt person Ace’ was suddenly off the menu. “When I saw there was a stunt person, I was a bit disappointed,” Aldred told DWM. “And Janet, who was standing next to me, went ‘Oh, thanks a bunch! So that’s why we’re having to do this and do that?’” “Put it this way: there was a moment where I was telling somebody else on-set, ‘What I said to Chris Chibnall was I’d love to do all the running and jumping, the stunts, just as much as I ever did.’”, Aldred said in her SFX interview. But I said, ‘You’re probably not allowed to do that with a – cough – year-old woman, are you?’ And Chris said, ‘No, not really.’” “I told Chris I’d like to ride a motorbike – like I was cast for in the first place,” Aldred revealed to DWM. It was astonishing, watching her work.”Īldred also told both DWM and SFX magazine 358 that she’s keen to do stunts. She’s so clever, so quick, the way she gets it all in her brain. But she walks through it once and she gets it. We were getting scenes quite late, and she was learning her lines – all this really big stuff she has to learn – sometimes just before we recorded. “Jodie has a very similar energy to Sylvester – she has that kind of curiosity about everything and everyone. She also revealed that lines needed to be learned quickly because some scripts came in shortly before performances. Aldred noted to DWM some similarities between McCoy’s Doctor and Jodie Whittaker’s thirteenth Doctor. And it came back, you know… I suddenly remembered how much I adore the process of filming.”Īce was a companion to the seventh Doctor played by Sylvester McCoy. And I was going, ‘Oh, no pressure…’ But Jamie was there, and he’s just absolutely brilliant, and everyone was so nice and lovely. And as I walked on set, the first AD said, ‘Welcome back, Sophie Aldred!’ And everyone burst into applause. “For my first scene, I was in Bristol, filming in a museum, and I’d been sort of hurried in with a golf umbrella over me. It is rumoured that a concern arises about the defacement of “history’s most iconic paintings” in the special.Īldred told DWM that they did film part of the special in a museum. “I went down to Cardiff for a costume fitting with Ray Holman, and I said, ‘Yeah, but I’ll only be in a couple of scenes.’ And Ray said, ‘Not from the script I’ve read…’” In an interview in Doctor Who Magazine 582, Aldred discovered that her role would be bigger than she anticipated. Sophie Aldred and Janet Fielding appear to spend a lot of screen time together as Ace (Dorothy McShane) and Tegan Jovanka, respectively, in the Doctor Who BBC centenary special The Power of the Doctor.
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