Tell us about “Space Babies”.
◆ The TARDIS lands on a spaceship. It was very, very hard to shoot. We used real babies! I like to do things that I’ve never done before and sometimes that’s quite hard, with such a long career as mine. So I was very happy to be doing science fiction and working with Russell, and with babies who were high on the call sheet. I think some were about one-and-a-half years old.
Is there a CG element to the babies?
◆ Yes, there’s a slight CG element to it. But that happened after I left. It was all worked out by fantastic people who took on the very tricky job of figuring out how to make the babies actually talk. So I had to just point the camera at the babies.
What was the most “out there” moment of filming for you?
◆ Just literally shooting the babies in the spaceship. It was a think about it properly. But nothing prepares you for being on set with 12 real babies all acting differently.
