Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gisbon confess what it was really like working with all the babies in the Space Babies episode of Doctor Who.
What was it like working with all those babies in the Space Babies Doctor Who episode?
Ncuti Gatwa: They are so cute. Absolute divas. We could see the ones that would make it. It was very bonding, though. The whole crew and everyone one set had to get involved.
Millie Gibson: Coaxing them to be more entertained [was difficult]. I remember there was a scene where I had to give them a sad speech about Ruby’s upbringing. The stage direction is “the babies are so absorbed in what Ruby is saying” and the only thing that could get them to listen to me was having a nursery rhyme on my phone.
Russell T. Davies: I love that in seventeen years time, at all those eighteenth birthday parties, they are going to be playing the episode. Mums will be like look at you, on Doctor Who, and they will be so bored with it. Or happy.
Space Babies: Ruby learns the Doctor’s amazing secrets when he takes her to a Baby Farm in the future that’s being run by babies, but threatened by a bogeyman.
“Doctor Who” streams Friday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. ET on Disney+ where available, and simultaneously on May 11 at midnight on BBC iPlayer in the U.K. New episodes debut weekly.
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About Doctor Who
SEASON SYNOPSIS: The Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday travel across time and space, with adventures all the way from the Regency era in England, to war-torn future worlds. Throughout their adventures in the TARDIS – a time-traveling ship shaped like a police box – they encounter incredible friends and dangerous foes, including a terrifying bogeyman, and the Doctor’s most powerful enemy yet.
“Doctor Who” streams Friday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. ET on Disney+ where available, and simultaneously on May 11 at midnight on BBC iPlayer in the U.K. New episodes debut weekly.
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