'Doctor Who' Karen Gillan: 'My exit won't be what people expect'
Published May 19 2012, 16:59 BST | By Beth Hilton
Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has said that her exit from the show won't be "what people expect".Gillan (Amy) and Arthur Darvill (Rory) will both depart the sci-fi drama midway through its seventh series.
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The pair's final episode was recently filmed in New York and will feature the return of the monstrous Weeping Angels.
Gillan told Total Film of reading the script for her final show: "I literally couldn't read it without crying. It was the most highly-charged read-through I've ever experienced. But I couldn't have asked for a better exit. I don't think it'll be what people expect."
The actress also expressed her support for a Doctor Who movie, saying: "I think it would be great in a franchise-y sort of way. I'd look forward to sitting down and watching it."
However, she remained tight-lipped on her possible involvement. "Oh, who knows, I guess you can only cross that bridge when you come to it!" she said.
Jenna-Louise Coleman will make her debut as the Doctor's new companion at Christmas.
I am very sad to see her go, but we never forgot Billie Piper did we, so i doubt we will forgot Karen
June 30th 2012 at 2:20pm
Karen looks very pretty in that pic
May 21st 2012 at 5:11pm
Is it just me or is this exit being bigged up far too much? Yes, she's leaving. That's upsetting enough for some people (and especially Karen who's leaving a life and her friends behind), but doesn't that always happen? It doesn't seem to matter how hard I think this through, I can't think of a way of her leaving that's not only upsetting, but THAT upsetting. In fact, if she just dies or gets warped to the past or something, most of us are going to feel a tad let down. Then again, I keep recalling how 'game changing' last year's mid-season cliffhanger was supposed to be and think Moffat's just got Karen involved in his overselling.
May 21st 2012 at 9:36am(+1 like)
obviously the weeping angels send them into a different time
May 20th 2012 at 7:06pm
Remember that regeneration scene last season? Remember that little girl? I wonder what happened next? A one-time Centurian rushing around the corner, spotting the tail-end of the regenerative effect and realising that little girl's identity?
May 21st 2012 at 9:55am
I think rory gets zapped back in time but the episode is already set in the past, so when the doctor and amy finds him hes an old man and dies, therefore amy decides to let the angel take her hoping that she'll go back to the same time as rory so she can spend the rest of her life with him.
May 20th 2012 at 10:50am
its definitely a nice thought! But I seem to remember Moffat saying something along the lines of no happy endings and there will be deaths or something.
May 20th 2012 at 11:53am(+1 like)
There's definitely one death - don't worry, that one's in a perfectly natural way. It's unlikely to have much impact however since it won't be the first time that it's happened to that character. In fact that person could easily pop back to the show at some point in the future just as long as the Doctor remembered where to return to.
May 21st 2012 at 9:39am
He never specifically said it wouldn't be happy - just incredibly upsetting and that anyone can (and possibly will) die. We'll see at least one funeral - and you can probably guess who's. That's the death, but that person won't be murdered, it will be a result of being very old. The Doctor can't go back and change things because the funeral itself makes the event pretty much fixed in the same way that Rose caused major problems when she tried to save her dad. That doesn't mean something else can't be inserted into that time period - something sentient, that will otherwise live a long long life away from someone she feels she has lost. Someone else who can no longer really be saved. It might not end up happy families, but it will all work out for the best given the circumstances.
May 21st 2012 at 10:02am(+1 like)