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Anchorage will air doc martin11/11/2022 ![]() ![]() He is as impatient with people as ever, but he is a happy parent. What has happened to your character over the last ten series. We have now done that with the Doc a few times with door frames and things. It wasn't in the script, it was just an idea I had on the day, but it became quite a tone for me, a sort of benchmark for me because I had just been like super doc and diagnosed Louisa's eye condition on the spot, and I just thought 'whack him in the face for being so cocky'. I remember filming at the Camelford Hotel and walking into the door in the first series. What are your memories of making the first series? Sometimes a writer will write the Doc being unkind, but he isn't, he is just clear, he is just not kind, he is not unkind, he doesn't reach to be unpleasant to people. #Anchorage will air doc martin series#He is sort of loathsome, but it has defined itself as the series has gone on. One of the things you said in an interview for the very first series was "I really like having the opportunity to be loathsome" with the character. It remains a stretch for me and a challenge but also a good source of being funny. So I am aware of stilling myself for this, and being economical because it suits the character. I noticed on the Platinum Jubilee Pageant I was moving about all over the place. It just seemed a good use of me, and also I am physically quite chaotic, and it is an attempt to impose some order on me, with this sharp short haircut, and the tailored suit, I am much stiller. I need something to act, someone to act, or something to pin someone on rather than just open a script and a nice guy says some kind of nice things. You came to the role of Doc Martin after playing the affable character of William, the undertaker in the ITV drama William And Mary. I don't think I will work as much again, I will be surprised if I do. Because it is every other year we film, it does take such a chunk out of - five months out of 24 is a lot less than five out of 12. But I think it has been a long time and it has been a great number of episodes so I think they appreciate that if we say it is time to stop, it is time to stop.Īs an actor presumably you would like to move on to other roles?Īny employment takes you off the employment market doesn't it? I have been lucky enough to have done other things whilst doing this as well. There were some people who said 'please don't stop'. What has been the reaction of the public who gather to watch the filming in the village to the news that this is the last series? Caroline Catz's husband Michael reminds me of what I said at the wrap party outside the village hall after the first series: "I wouldn't mind doing this for another ten years." I sort of light-heartedly said that. ![]() No because all you think of is how popular it needs to be to get a recommission. The first series launched in 2004, did you ever imagine it would become as popular as it has become? It was just another case of saying 'let's see if we can get this one away'. Nothing of what I am saying could have been predicted when we started. To get to do it with this level of input, to have a voice in decisions, and to have it so loved. I will never get a job as good as this again I know that in terms of what it has done for us personally, but also just in the sheer joy of it, not being in a city to film it, and being allowed to make something funny in front of a camera, which is my favourite work experience. It certainly felt, with this many episodes in, coming up with the stories, not just the individual stories but the through lines with the characters across the series and their journeys throughout it, it has just been done now, and I think we would be repeating ourselves. We would love to come to Cornwall and work here but we can't do every job down here. It just felt right for everyone involved. Why did you take the decision that Series 10 would be the finale? ![]()
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