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Ahead of his upcoming film, The Undertaker, the former Time Lord answers your questions about Doctor Who, Withnail, and being competitive with his actor brothersI played Proculeius in the school production of Anthony and Cleopatra where you played the lead. Clearly you’ve had more success as a thesp than me! What can you remember about it and our English teacher Joe Hartley? caseballI can still smell the Tangfastic – the 70s fake stuff we’d smother ourselves in so we looked like Romans. I remember the excitement of having real girls over from Broughton Hall [Catholic high school, in Liverpool] to play the queen and women. Joe Hartley – his patience must have been saint-like. His love for poetry was infectious. I’d never heard of Rada until he mentioned it. I can remember him saying that Glenda Jackson went there and being really impressed, because Glenda was the Queen of England and also one of our own. [Jackson was born in Cheshire.] Without Joe, I wouldn’t have done it. Bless him. You played SAS sergeant Chris Ryan in 1996’s The One That Got Away, journalist and writer Andrew Morton in 2002’s The Biographer, and Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Thornton in 2022’s [TV series, Anne]. How does your approach to portraying a living person differ to that to a fictional character? VerulamiumParkRanger Continue reading...