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Hilariously grumpy Doctor Who interview resurfaces

Photo credit: BBC
Photo credit: BBC

From Digital Spy

Most journalists experience their fair share of bad interviews over their careers, but spare a thought for the one who had to interview a very grumpy Doctor Who star many moons ago.

While hard going, this encounter with actor Clive Swift – who played Mr Copper on Who special 'Voyage of the Damned' in 2007 – is certainly entertaining to say the least.

The Q&A session, from Doctor Who Magazine in 2007 during the David Tennant era, has resurfaced online, and in it Swift spends a lot of the time attempting to lecture the journalist on their skills.

"Don't you know shorthand?" he begins the interview, before asking a few questions later: "Why should I do this? I'm not getting paid, am I?"

The writer then asks Swift about his character in the episode, the actor replying: "You don't need me to tell you that. Have you read the script? That's what I perform. You can tell them about my character. What a silly question."

Photo credit: BBC
Photo credit: BBC

Oof. Swift does at least lighten up further along in the conversation, calling Mr Copper "appealing" and "brave", and he even compared the role to his previous stint on the show as Professor Jobel in 1985's 'Revelation of the Daleks'.

However, at the end of the interview, Swift tells the writer: "There's no reason why I should talk to you at all, so you shouldn't push it. I'm sure you'll write something very nice.

"I know that you all think that this is a big world, this Who business, but it isn't. There are much bigger things than this."

In the spirit of 'Voyage of the Damned', that was truly Titanic (hello, this thing on?).