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"Jenna-Louise Coleman has revealed that her appearance in the first episode of Doctor Who&amp;#039;s seventh series wasn&amp;#039;t initially planned. The actress was supposed to make her debut as the Doctor&amp;#039;s (Matt Smith) new assistant in this year&amp;#039;s special Christmas episode, but surprised fans when she appeared in &amp;#039;Asylum of the Daleks&amp;#039; as Oswin Oswald earlier this year.  The twist, which saw Oswin converted into a Dalek who seemingly died at the end of the episode, confused viewers since Coleman&amp;#039;s companion character is called Clara. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s interesting actually that that was never the initial plan either, to have me be Oswin. That was part of a genius plan that Steven [Moffat] came up with halfway through the audition process,&amp;quot; Coleman told Entertainment Weekly. &amp;quot;That was already written but not written for what was to be the new companion. I was auditioning for the companion and then I got all these sides and I was like, &amp;#039;Who&amp;#039;s Oswin?&amp;#039;, not realizing that it&amp;#039;s basically Steven&amp;#039;s mad genius again.&amp;quot;  Asked if the twist will be addressed in the Christmas episode &amp;#039;The Snowmen&amp;#039;, she continued: &amp;quot;No. We&amp;#039;re going to have what has been referred to as a &amp;#039;soft mystery&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;For me, filming, I&amp;#039;ve been totally oblivious to Oswin and the &amp;#039;Asylum of the Daleks&amp;#039;. I really have had to erase it from my memory. Yeah, Christmas is its own episode. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s so difficult [to talk about it]. Because of the way it started with Oswin, it&amp;#039;s really difficult to say much - where [Clara&amp;#039;s] from, what period she&amp;#039;s from, what planet she&amp;#039;s from, even.&amp;quot; She added that there are &amp;quot;some absolutely stunning, beautiful, very magical&amp;quot; moments in the Christmas episode. Watch a trailer for &amp;#039;The Snowmen&amp;#039; below:   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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