Samuel Anderson was too scared to touch anything in the TARDIS when he first stepped foot on the ‘Doctor Who’ set.
The actor plays soldier-turned-teacher Danny Pink in the latest series of the sci-fi show and he admits he was on his best behaviour when he first got to try out the Time Lord’s spaceship.
He said: "For the first few days your the new boy so you’re behaving and you don’t really want to touch anything. But you feel like a child inside, let’s be honest we’re actors, we play make believe for a living. So for the first couple of days I didn’t touch anything, I behaved myself and acted like a professional then after the first week you’re playing with everything.
"Jenna said to me, ‘For the first two days you didn’t touch a thing you were very professional. When I got here I was playing with everything.’ "
However, after settling in Samuel admits the blue Police Box is as much of a "second home" to him now as it is to Peter Capaldi, who plays the Doctor.
He explained: "The TARDIS is like a second home to me now – and it is a lot bigger on the inside! The first time you go inside it is brilliant, and everything in there works, literally everything you see on the screen that has a button or a little knob, or a lever that you pull, or things that twist actually does something. The art department has done an incredible job. It’s a brilliant piece of engineering."
Danny is the love interest of companion Clara Oswald – played by Jenna-Louise Coleman, whom he also starred with in ‘Emmerdale’ – and he insists the pair are about to embark on a gripping storyline starting with the next episode ‘The Caretaker’.
He teased: "We’ve only had a sprinkle, a taster of Danny Pink so far. It’s about to kick off in a very big way, the story arch that Steven Moffat has put in this series means were going places. Jenna has been really good to me, I actually had to audition with her and she has really looked after me."
‘The Caretaker’ airs on BBC One this Saturday (25.09.14) at 8:30pm.
Samuel Anderson recalls TARDIS nerves
