‘‘ After I’d done the 50th anniversary one,” Clare Higgins says with a conspiratorial tone, “and then I got the other scripts to go back, I said to a few friends of mine – close friends, close acting friends, ‘Oh, I’m going back to Doctor Who.’ The reaction I got – I won’t name names, but all of them went, ‘Oh. That’s very nice.’ All riddled with jealousy. Honestly!” At this, Clare punctuates the whispered nugget of actor’s gossip with a mischievously wicked laugh.
Speaking to DWM on the phone from her home in Northamptonshire, Clare Higgins laughs. A lot. It’s a deep, throaty laugh full of warmth and humour, that textured voice occasionally giving a hint of her West Yorkshire background. But at any second, you feel it could change in a heartbeat to the authoritarian tones of Ohila, High Priestess of the Sisterhood of Karn, capable of summoning a Time Lord from within a TARDIS like a naughty child. It’s a role Clare has played on and off since 2013’s The Night of the Doctor, the pivotal precursor to the 50th Anniversary Special, The Day of the Doctor. Adding to a lengthy CV of film, television and acclaimed stage performances, it’s a role Clare is happy to admit she adores playing.
“Filming Doctor Who in Cardiff really is the most fun I’ve had on set in a long time,” she says enthusiastically, very much under the spell Doctor Who can still cast after 53 years on TV. Did that take her by surprise? “I’m absolutely gobsmacked by it, and I just didn’t expect that to happen to be honest. But it has, and I’m really, really pleased. To be part of something like this is fantastic. Everybody wants to be in Doctor Who. It’s lovely. It’s very, very popular and it’s got this iconic status.”
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