#jenna coleman interview

[oswincoleman]

A lovely new interview with Jenna Coleman about her upcoming leading role as Ember Manning in The Jetty!

It talks about some of the topics and themes discussed in The Jetty, and Jenna talks about her character of Ember Manning, who got a daughter in her teens with an older man, is a recent widow, and is reopening a cold case from 17 years earlier.

Jenna talks about how she always seeks out roles that are polar opposites of what she did before, how she was wary of playing a detective, and thought she couldn’t do it, and also didn’t want to fall into the trap of repeating stereotypes.

I love that Jenna always seeks out new roles, rather than being typecast. That she’s shy but always looks forward to a challenge. That she keeps proving her incredible acting ability in all her many vastly different roles, then gets sent similar roles, but instead looks for the polar opposite roles.

The interview also explores many of her past roles. She talks about how she kept to slump while being in Emmerdale to not be recognised, how she loves the aspect of theatre because “you get a rehearsal room where you get to fuck up. And in that space between getting things wrong and finding a way through, you can learn and experiment.”

She said about Doctor Who that her Comic Con days are over, but that she’ll “always be in the club”.

Time and experience have not dimmed her thirst for challenges — or her fear that the work might suddenly dry up. Even after 20 years? “A hundred per cent!” she exclaims.

[boydholbrook-fan]

Boyd at San Diego Comic-Con in 2022 in an TV Insider interview for The Sandman

He's cute. He's adorable. He's lovely. He's wonderful. He's incredible. He's handsome. He's a phenomenal and an exceptional talent. He's just simply THE BEST! And I love him and admire him so much!

Notice Boyd's tiny wave in the first gif. Also the last gif. ❤️ Aaand the Clement Mansell look of course.

Also the 48sec clip is my favorite part of the interview. ❤️

I know I'm repeating myself but that's just how it is.

I love Boyd Holbrook! ❤️

[shai-dwoodley]

[bessies-girl]

Every now and then I think of the summer of 2015 when we started getting trailers/comic con panels/etc for series nine of doctor who and i was seventeen and realizing i was queer and realizing that was a good thing and i was at that perfect level of obsessed and happy and excitable and i dont think life will ever feel exactly like it did in that summer of 2015.

[mlabyrinth]

These two are just - agafksfajdgsdgklv

Tom Sturridge and Jenna Coleman: Netflix's Sandman Cast Interview at SDCC 2022 [⏳]

Please don't repost my gifs on Twitter or elsewhere without giving credit. Thank you.

[aidanturner]

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"We asked Aidan Turner if he’d be up for playing 007″

Heart Breakfast, Twitter

[aokozaki]

Remember when Jenna Coleman (first becoming internationally known from playing Clara on Doctor Who) accidentally leaked that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was happening well before the announcement?

Coleman voices a main character in Xenoblade 1 > XBC1's rerelease includes a new epilogue campaign featuring her character > She reprises her role > Gaming news outlet interviews her about it because Xenoblade is basically the only gaming thing she's had > She offhandedly mentions "oh yeah they're doing another one I think, but they haven't called me in for that"

The real kicker is that she does actually have a voice-credit for Xenoblade 3, but she legitimately hadn't been contacted yet because it was a smaller role, screen-time wise, and thus she presumably wasn't under any NDA yet either.

That interview happened to land in the perfect slice of time where she could offhandedly mention that she thinks she'd heard about a new Xenoblade project, actually.

[pleasantwasteland]

Doctor Who Magazine 455

Jenna Coleman was literally saying in her first interviews about the snowmen that clara is insane and the tricky part of playing her is making her seem normal but she's too good of an actress so people claim they invented her personality in s8 💔

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of Day of the Doctor (Part 14)

Excerpts from the BBC Media Centre interview with Jenna Coleman

What is it like starring in the 50th special, one of the biggest years for the show?

It’s fantastic. I feel really spoilt to be honest and lucky to be in the show in the first place, but also to have come in at this time. Whilst we were filming it felt very celebratory and special. Working with David, Billie and John, I feel really pleased to be part of the whole thing.

What was it like working with David and Billie, was there any competiveness between the different Doctors and companions?

I think there’s a competitiveness in them that kind of brings out the best in the Doctor. You see it on set that they are so totally different Doctors, but they just complement each other. They make fun of each other mercilessly.

What were your thoughts when you first heard about John’s character?

So, not only do we have David back, we also have John Hurt starring as the Doctor, which is massively exciting. And again, the three of them complement each other totally, and it utterly works. It’s great to see all of them together.

Link to [part one] of The Day of the Doctor behind-the-scenes posts, or click the #whoBtsDotd tag, or the full episode list [ here ]

[oswincoleman]

Here is the amazing new Radio Times interview with Jenna Coleman about The Jetty, about finding her voice, and some of her past roles

Some interesting part of the interview that she hasn't already said previously are:

About the Jetty:

"Everything seems to be reverse-engineered: Ember’s mum is like the teenager, Ember the adult having a teenage awakening and her daughter Hannah having to become the grown up. Those dynamics felt very real. I have a couple of friends who had daughters very young. They’re more like siblings and then sometimes you have to pull the Mum card. They’re constantly keeping each other in check."

"I’ve been asked if this project could have been made 10 years ago, and maybe yes, but through a different lens," she says. "We’re not saying women good, men bad, it’s more nuanced. One teenage girl character is sexually liberated, another much less so – so how can you apply the same rules to both? 10 years ago, their stories would have been painted with much broader brushstrokes."

About what she was like as a kid, and what inspired her to go for an acting career:

What Coleman had instead were hugely helpful parents – "I was the kind of kid who studied for my exams without being told so they were able to be supportive but hands-off" – and a curiosity for her craft piqued, she shares, by the work of Anthony Minghella.

And finally, some outlook to the future:

Now, with two decades of work under her belt, a role in Netflix juggernaut The Sandman, more development projects on the horizon as well as a baby on the way, Coleman is a far cry from the ingenue worried her voice wouldn’t be heard. 

[anotheruserwithnoname]

The long-running UK soap opera Emmerdale (originally titled Emmerdale Farm) airs its 10,000th (not a typo) episode tonight (May 22, 2024). The Mirror tabloid just ran a little article on famous actors who appeared on the show and leading the list is Jenna Coleman, and they use a couple of images that you may have not seen of her from it.

Jenna started her screen acting career on Emmerdale, appearing on the show as Jasmine Thomas from 2005 to 2009 for approximately 400 episodes (according to Emmerdale fan sites; the IMDb claims only 180, which sounds a bit low for a 4-year-run on a soap opera). Her first episode aired only a couple of weeks after the final Christopher Eccleston episode of Doctor Who, and she also appeared with fellow Emmerdale cast members on the same Children in Need Special in late 2005 that featured the first David Tennant minisode.

The Mirror article omits one other actor with Who connections who was in the show: during its first years Frazer Hines, formerly Jamie McCrimmon during the Patrick Troughton era, was a major cast member.

Here's an TV interview the former Jenna-Louise Coleman did during her first year on the show (including a clip from the show - how she's changed!):

[mlabyrinth]

They way Jenna looks at Tom 🥺

Tom Sturridge and Jenna Coleman: Legendado: "de A a Z" [⏳]

[aidanturner]

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The fabulous Aidan Turner and Jenna Coleman joined Graham Norton to chat all about starring together in a new West End production called Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons.

Virgin Radio UK, IG

[thealogie]

it’s so funny to me discovering how many people hate series six (or just eleven in general!) because it was the first one i watched as it aired live after being deeply obsessed with the show all through middle school; granted i was in eighth grade so there is very distinct nostalgia goggles happening but every time i’m like “that’s my friend eleven how can you hate my friend eleven”

all that being said the second half of series six is not good but the god complex is a great episode; i skipped most of series seven in my rewatch because bad writing + they don’t actually get who clara is as a character yet + matt smith and jenna coleman despite being extremely charismatic with each other in interviews just do not do it for me in character—but as you know imho it is literally all worth it for my main man peter capaldi to show up they really put something wild in the twelveclara dynamic

It’s so weird because I even really liked eleven just not his seasons? I got through season 5 and thought it was pretty well-written even though I maintain that the doctor/ponds dynamic didn’t live up to any of the past chemistry. Then I got to Season 6 and was like…sorry you want me to watch two and a half more seasons with this dynamic?

There’s just something about capaldi acting like a grownup that makes the show funny even when the writing isn’t all there

[duran-duran-less-official]

@coolstuffiseverywhere

Fun Doctor Who trivia from 2012: at the time he was writing the 50th anniversary special, Moffat had absolutely freaking nobody to work with. David Tennant wasn't officially confirmed for it. John Hurt wasn't officially confirmed for it. Even Matt Smith wasn't officially confirmed for it. The only person he had who was absolutely guaranteed to be available for filming was Jenna Coleman.

I remember reading an interview with Moffat back in the day, detailing how much he was freaking out over this writing process, and my synthesis of it was that Series 7 part b was held together with duct tape and string. It seems obvious in hindsight that the Impossible Girl arc, being clunky and clumsy and leading to like a soft reset of Clara's character afterwards, was actually the remnant of what the 50th anniversary would have been, the plan Z option if Moffat had been unable to get any of the actual Doctors to sign up for it. Moffat's description of the hypothetical special sounds eerily similar to what the episode The Name of the Doctor ended up being: Clara travelling back through The Doctor's timeline to intervene at crucial moments, meeting all previous incarnations of The Doctor along the way.

I have to say, it's not a bad idea for a special when you only have a companion to work with. Fortunately, as we know, Smith, Tennant, Hurt and so on DID sign on for the 50th anniversary special, so we got The Day of the Doctor instead, and Steven Moffat managed to deliver one of the great Doctor Who episodes of all time, presumably also knowing that repurposing his 50th arc plans into the rest of Series 7 would deal an unfair hammer blow to his reputation as a writer.

[kaijuposting]

The Pacific Rims that never were

Before Pacific Rim: Uprising as we know it was a thing, there were a number of sequel and spinoff ideas that never made it to production. Here are some that made it to the Internet:

A prequel cartoon Pacific Rim: Steel Warriors was going to be a two-season cartoon prequel series that would have expanded on the franchise's lore, featuring Mako Mori and a number of new characters. The wiki has a page on it here. I'm always a sucker for expanded lore, so I definitely think it's a bummer that this one didn't pan out. Also, making Mako Mori a major character in an entire series would've been rad.

Showing more of the other universe Guillermo del Toro was vague about it, but he expressed intentions of showing off the other universe. He ruled out "invading" the other world, so it doesn't seem he meant to have jaegers just go in and start attacking. Perhaps he meant to reveal more through more kaiju drifting. Perhaps he meant to have scenes featuring the aliens doing their thing. Or maybe it was something else. It is a mystery. I do know I'd have loved to get a better look at what was on the other side of the breach! More comics Guillermo del Toro intended for the Tales From Year Zero comics to continue, running up until the release of the second film. Alas, it was not to be.

A jaeger named Black Maria In 2015, Guillermo del Toro talked about plans for a Mexican jaeger named Black Maria, piloted by two convicts who'd been promised their freedom in return for piloting the jaeger. (I also can't help but notice that this sounds very much like Travis Beacham's plans for Matador Fury and its pilots.) Also, gotta love a name like Black Maria - it sounds all piratey. Was del Toro planning on a pirate-themed jaeger? Because that would have been awesome. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of kickass!

A jaeger cadet played by Maisie Williams On October 3rd, 2015, Guillermo del Toro tweeted his wishes to cast Maisie Williams as a jaeger pilot in the second Pacific Rim film. I'm not a Game of Thrones fan, but I did love Maisie Williams's character in Doctor Who, so I'd have loved to see this. I wonder who her character would have interacted with. Would she have been friends with Mako Mori? What would her co-pilot have been like, and would she have been played by Jenna Coleman? Alas we'll never know, but we can imagine! The destruction of San Francisco In late 2017, del Toro said that he planned for the second film to end up on the west coast and have San Francisco destroyed in a battle between kaiju and jaegers. Utterly demolishing the first city that had ever been attacked by a kaiju would be a brutal move, but I can picture it leading to some interesting questions - why do we fight when things are destroyed anyway? Is it a waste of time, or is gaining even just one more day with those we love worth it?

A techbro villain, a time travel plot twist, and more Mako Mori In late 2021, del Toro said that he'd planned for the villain of the second film to be "this tech guy that had invented basically sort of the internet 2.0." It would be revealed that he'd been getting all of his ideas from the Precursors, who would have been revealed to be humanity from the future. Del Toro also said that he'd intended Mako Mori to be one of the story's main characters.

I dunno about you, but I think a techbro villain who isn't actually inventing the shit he's taking credit for is a great idea. I also think the reveal that the "Precursors" are actually humans from the future is excellent on a philosophical level, because it forces us to confront that fact that what we often like to think of as "alien" is really just humanity at its worst. Also, more Mako Mori? Hell yeah! I'm sure there's more articles and interviews out there that talk about plans that never materialized, and hopefully I'll come across them - or maybe some of you know of them? If so, please feel free to add on with them. :D