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"  Is she going? Is she staying? Only one thing&amp;#039;s for certain about Jenna Coleman&amp;#039;s involvement with Doctor Who right now - her stellar performance as Clara in the BBC sci-fi&amp;#039;s eighth series was one of its biggest selling points. You can revisit all 12 episodes when the DVD box-set hits shelves on Monday - containing hours of special features, including audio commentaries, cast interviews and featurettes. To mark the release, Digital Spy sat down with Coleman to reflect on her time with the series, Clara&amp;#039;s journey this year and achieving global stardom. Let&amp;#039;s go back to when you heard Matt Smith was leaving - were you nervous about having to work so closely with someone new? &amp;quot;No, not really, I wasn&amp;#039;t, &amp;#039;cos when I found out it was Peter [Capaldi], I was still filming with Matt, so I was very involved there and we were having a great time and kind of doing our goodbyes. &amp;quot;But then me and Peter went out for lunch... I didn&amp;#039;t tell Matt that, actually! It was like two-timing - and we both ordered omelettes and chips and from then on I knew it was going to be great! &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s so easy to talk to, instantly, and actually, from the first day on set, one thing I really noticed was he just totally had my back from day one. Even though it was his first day, he really looks after the people around him. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s great &amp;#039;cos we&amp;#039;re mates, and it&amp;#039;s funny because we&amp;#039;re such different ages, but we&amp;#039;re just totally really good buddies. It&amp;#039;s lovely.&amp;quot;  Clara went through a lot in the series - do you feel she&amp;#039;s changed since we first met her? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s interesting. I think the first series she was an enigma and she was removed from the audience and she was this mystery, so in a way she was kind of fulfilling the role of companion but yet we didn&amp;#039;t really know her as a person and that was kind of the purpose of the story. &amp;quot;Not only is the show very different now, but the dynamic obviously was totally up for grabs as well - the show has been reinvented and the dynamic is new, so we can get to know Clara as a person more because the [original] story&amp;#039;s now out of the way.&amp;quot; Do you feel like there was more of you in her this series? There were references to Blackpool and a little bit more of your accent coming through... &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s Mark Gatiss! He&amp;#039;s Northern and it&amp;#039;s funny whenever I read his scripts... you just see the Northernisms coming through, especially in the Robin Hood episode. &amp;quot;But I don&amp;#039;t know how similar she is to me. Not as much of the control-freakiness. That&amp;#039;s not me! I&amp;#039;m totally chilled.&amp;quot;  The relationship with the Doctor this series was far more tumultuous I think than it ever was with Matt&amp;#039;s Doctor. What was it like playing some of those scenes with Peter? &amp;quot;We talked a lot in make-up in the mornings, because actually it&amp;#039;s a really complicated relationship that we were trying to pitch it and mark it. But at the same time, what&amp;#039;s interesting about Doctor Who is that you&amp;#039;re playing the drama but always within the context of a 45-minute adventure. &amp;quot;So you&amp;#039;re telling the story of the adventure whilst also figuring out a relationship - it&amp;#039;s a really different way of working that I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ll really have on any other show &amp;#039;cos it&amp;#039;s almost like you&amp;#039;re always doing five things at once. &amp;quot;But the relationship, it&amp;#039;s like... I can&amp;#039;t quite put my finger on what it is, even. It&amp;#039;s like they&amp;#039;re irrevocably bound to each other, but it&amp;#039;s not easy because they don&amp;#039;t always get on, so it&amp;#039;s like they&amp;#039;re trying to find their way and their ground and they clash, but they totally love each other, which is almost why they clash so much! &amp;quot;I mean even talking about it now, it becomes complicated. This series has explored what can be the destructive nature of travelling and travelling with the Doctor, which I don&amp;#039;t really think has been told before.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s destructive but addictive at the same time... &amp;quot;Totally addictive! And I think she&amp;#039;s addicted to him and the life and the TARDIS and I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s really a way back for her now that she&amp;#039;s had a taste of this life and him. I don&amp;#039;t really think she could go back to just having a normal life again.&amp;quot;  I guess the one chance she had at that life was with poor, tragic Danny Pink\u2026 &amp;quot;Yeah, poor, tragic, Cyberman Danny Pink!&amp;quot; When you set out at the start of the series, did you know Clara and Danny&amp;#039;s romance was doomed? &amp;quot;Probably in March, I think, I found out. I had dinner with Steven [Moffat] and it was one of the first things he said. It&amp;#039;s funny because you can try and guess where stories are going to go, but with Steven you never get it right. &amp;quot;So I did know for a while that was the way [it was going], but I didn&amp;#039;t know he was going to become a Cyberman!&amp;quot; Michelle Gomez of course debuted this year as Missy. What was it like having her on set? &amp;quot;Great, she&amp;#039;s really magnetic. When you&amp;#039;re doing a scene with her, you&amp;#039;re really drawn in by her because she has got that mischievous unpredictability. She is absolutely, wonderfully bonkers. You seriously don&amp;#039;t know from take-to-take what she&amp;#039;s going to do. &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s a really good comedy actress, but actually she&amp;#039;s also a great dramatic actress. Missy&amp;#039;s such a crazy villain - so dangerous - but you really like her, that&amp;#039;s the thing. You kind of want to see her kill more people! (laughs) She&amp;#039;s pitched it very cleverly.&amp;quot;  You shot series eight, then you went on a world tour, and then you shot Christmas. Has it been a bit of a whirlwind for you? &amp;quot;Yeah it has, but it&amp;#039;s been great, because there&amp;#039;s not really a chance to get bored on the show - you have different people in all the time, you get to work with such great actors and directors and the genre changes every two weeks. The scripts are so varied. &amp;quot;I remember Matt once described it as being on a freight train, and it kind of is like that, you jump on and then you keep going. I think maybe it&amp;#039;ll be a few years down the line, I&amp;#039;ll look back and be like... whoa!&amp;quot; Speaking of the world tour, what was that like? It looked like an amazing experience. &amp;quot;Yeah it was. It was quite weird having filmed for so long and then jumping on a plane - you forget just how far-reaching the show is. I have to say, there wasn&amp;#039;t much sleep, but just jumping on planes and popping up in cities and being met by so many people that love the show so much, it was a really... without sounding corny, it was really quite joyous. &amp;quot;It was quite a unique experience to do seven cities in 11 days - and my family came with me and Peter&amp;#039;s family as well, so we were like... this really weird band!&amp;quot; What would you do if you were in a band? &amp;quot;What, with my mum and dad? Probably not sell many records!&amp;quot;  Looking into the future, how would you like the character of Clara to be remembered by Doctor Who fans? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know yet. I don&amp;#039;t know. To be honest, it&amp;#039;s hard when you&amp;#039;re in the middle of it... we&amp;#039;ve still got the Christmas episode to come out. &amp;quot;But one of my favourite things about her is her sense of loyalty to the Doctor - she&amp;#039;s really the person who&amp;#039;s been with him right from the beginning, from Hartnell and all the way through, I think that&amp;#039;s pretty amazing, getting to work with Matt and Peter and a bit with David [Tennant], so that for me is a wonderful side to her.&amp;quot; Doctor Who: The Complete Eighth Series is released on DVD on Monday, November 24 and is available to pre-order now on BBC Shop. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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