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| .,e a feelingwe'renot in Cardiff
I ar1 more,"says avidTennant,
|-
amake-up rtistsprays imI a:.: irsect epellent. ppositeus,
-*L::-ai ,roldiers anning imself
q'.na eel.paper. ts 28'Chere nRolai ':{pparentl}. t s ainingback
hoEe- TeDnanrrins. Shame!"
h's September007 ndDoctolftlo is on ocatioDat Italy's Cinecitti
Studioi wbere heBBC,/HBO e es
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RorzewaslImed. ennant, o-starCatherineTateand40-odd crew rom
BBCWales ave pecial ermission
to flhn on the ive acres f outdoorsets a detailedeconshuction f
AncientRome for anepisode etinPompeiin AD 79.This s he ust
time that therevivedseries as akenthe castabroad or filming.
"Weonlyhave wo days ere," aysdirectorColinTeague,sowehave o
make hemostof t. we fnished n
Cardiff astweek.oaded heTa.dis
ontoatruck,and hisbigjuggemaut
travelled cross urope.ti likeamiiitaryoperation." nother ssues
the anguage.we'vean talian hirdassistantirectorwho's een elpinguscommunicate ith theextras."
"I'm Mount Vesuvius,"nnouncesGarcth Williams, the Welsh irstassistant. e'sstanding n abox and
wavinghisarmsabout. Slaves,soldie$ and stallholden stare
backat him. Smoke sbillowingof me.Theground sshaking.isduly ranslatednto talian,promptingsmilesandnods.This
timg the supporting afiiststhrolr
themselves bout he cobbledlikepros, rabbing mall hildrer-toppling ums and running for
underdoorways.Lookatme,nJ
Radolim€s2-18Apri
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o smiling,Please!"wasn'tuntil writer JamesMoran
hescriPt hat the eam
they'dhaveo shootboth day
dght scenesn Rome. Tonight,
gotour bigelfectsshot,"says
re. 'which is ever'4hrngdownonPompeii"
at Cinecitt]r,andash alls
ibe sk).coudesyof sPecial
AnYEffects,as >
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< supportingartistsfleenpanic.h.is Ilfi EnumQilhadto be ilmed at night,becausethat's owdark t becamen Pompeii HOW Pompeii S f inal hOUfS
asclouds f ashblottedout he ight. Wefg Captufed On filmPhil Cornwell (of Dead Ringers ame) "We wercsteppingonto aplays Pompeiian tallholder:Once multirnillion-poundset,,,saysthis stuff getsn, youcan'tget t out," Any Effects'DannyHargeaves,hesays, ickingash rom his hair after "so a ot of work went nto penuadinga ake. I'm having badhairday." Cinecittdo etusqeatesuch mess.
Teaguewatch€st back on the Partof tlle condition was hat wedcamemmonitor. That'sgreat! help idyup!Itwas onlycourtesy.,,Catherineand David runningdown WheD hecameras olled,Dannythestreet,ard Phil looking up, seeing and histearnhadto keep',aconstantthe honor of it, and tt all going supply of debds ainingdown,,,andmad. He reallypulledout the bepoised o rcsetwithin minutesemotion. t looks ike this s the end. should he dircctorwant to goforFor him, the holocaust s coming." a secondake(andhe
did). But theIn aquietermoment,sitting on effectseam atCin€cittd werchappysomestepsoppositeCinecitta's to lenda hand.,,I explained,n myreplicaForum(whichwill be worst,broken taliar - a ot ofdigitally r€plac€dwith Mount pointing and scratchingof headsVesuviusn post-production), what wewanted o achieven theseT€nnant eflects, It must havebeen sc€nes,rd their help was nvatuable.horrifia when hat mountainerupted. But theycouldnt believe hesDeedThose oor people. hey eallymust at whicbweworked. think Lheyhavehought it was heend of the thoughtwewerearazy.,,BCworld. t's mportantnot o forget Thereb lso ullbehind-the-scenesthat,and eally hat'swhat his coveragef heCinecittehoot nepisodesabout." BenidmlnCook DoctorWhoMagazine,outl[av.
ASHESTOASHESA Po|npallan tEder(Phll cornwell, dtovetls coveed ln ash -actu.lly tBiue Daper.The chunks of debdsare coafi,whl.h looksllkc rcck on camera,ll'r all loEded nto ahlqh-prcssure cannoncontEDtlon calledan alr wooier (rightr.On"actlon", thedebrls is fhrd over...Yrell,anythlng and.rryorc in lls pathl
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IIIIER:JA}IE$|||RAllwritinsor our erohouldeeasvbut st?comeassomesurPrise
people fPompeiivocaburary
oran,wdterofTheF es
p e i, explairrs,T'bereh^d
big earthquakeabout 17Yea$heeruption of Vesuviusn
and eversincg herchad been
whichthey hought
gods umbling or shouting
makear olTeringo the
godsevery ime there
remor.They ust didn'tktrow.
it happened ow, would
world wasending.
then,havingno ideawhat
wag andwith their
andbeliefs,t must
absolutely errifying.
must have hought the
ad comedownto nP
o pieces."
Doctor andDonna arrive
: rpeiishortly efore
:usblows,leadingo
:le moral dilemrna:i: ? am thepeoplg thus
--i: courseof history
-i. do nothing?
theTime Lord's
--..mpanionwill have
:-- !a]. aDdMoran rcveals
:-: i: not b€enCathedne
, J:::a. the esponsibility
-i::-aileDo an all-new
-\\ael I flrst got the ob.
theydidn t know CatherineTatewas
comingback,so hey were ryrngto
comeupwith a newcompamon
calledPenny.But they kePtsaYing,'Wereally oved t whenDonnawas
in theTardis,and that rclationship,'
so t wasobvious heYwanted o
move t in a differentdircction;
moreof an adult friend than
a wide-eyedounger irl."
Molan,who also criptedhe
archly r,onderfulorror llm
FEELINGTHE HEATTimo is running out ior the Doctol(Davld Tennant) and Donna(Cdtherlne
Tatel ard the peoDleof Pompcii - but
should the time tlavellers wa.n them?
Sele/arceand arec€ntepisode
of Torchwood,happetso havebeen
ahtge Who an since hildhood,
whichhe maginedwould makegetting nto theDoctort head
rattrereasy. u cohtruire. It was
oneof thehardesthings 'veever
hadto write. Theysay hat uPfront:
'It's hehardest ho$ o write or'
I thought.Fore!€ryotre lsg
mal b€t think you'll find that
I *'on t haveany ouble!' "
Some20 deleted ersionsof
DavidTennant'sopening ine ater,
he admits, I wentmad for awhile:
over40yearsof history . . . eight
million peoplewatchingeveryweek
. . . the en-year-old ersionof myself
watchingswell.. . thought,
'Am I going o have o phone hem
upand say: really apprcciatehis,
but you'll have o find someone lse,
becausecantcope!"'
He didnt, happily,asyouwill see.
Indeed,JamesMoran cameuP with
something alher explosive . . NG
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