Doctor Who- Unleashed - Season 2 Episode 05- The Story and the Engine
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00:00in this episode we'll show you how we built a nigerian market in wales i go to barry to reveal
00:16what's occurring between doctor who and gavin and stacy and spoiler alert we've got you that
00:23exclusive clip from the next episode here we are then just over halfway through the series
00:43so far we've had an angry ai creepy cartoons an unexpected sequel and caught up with an old
00:50friend incredible but despite the doctor's best efforts with his vindicator we're still no closer
00:57to belinda getting home and we're still no nearer to finding out who mrs flood is
01:07for this installment of unleashed we're heading behind the scenes
01:10of the story and the engine a hair-raising episode set in a nigerian barber shop
01:16on the back of a giant space spider powered by stories in other words just another day in the
01:23whole universe well if you put it like that so just where did the idea come from i'd always wanted an
01:30episode set in africa and me and russell have been speaking about in your art since the minute that i
01:37got cast i just really wanted him to be a writer on dot who and russell was so up for it and i was like
01:46yes i've been watching doctor who since i was a kid in nigeria since i was 10 years old quivering
01:52behind the sofa watching daleks run rife everywhere i've been toying with the idea of a doctor who
02:03episode or series primarily because nigeria has a very superstitious people and the doctor
02:08flirts around with superstition but also magic and where that meets science and science fiction so
02:15in my head i've just been playing with this wait you're on the missing posters all of you i'm a huge
02:22fan of russell's work so i just slid into his dms and instagram saying hi russell i'm excited about
02:28what you do next welcome i've been expecting you russell responded within an hour saying in
02:35i'm a fan of your work come on write for us in your the great joy of working with in your ellums
02:41i went to the national i saw his play the barber shop chronicle and i went to see that and i loved
02:47that play i loved it so much so the trick was to take the show to him and say there we go put that into
02:53your world and i just thought i couldn't stop thinking what about the doctor walked into that
02:56barber shop oh no doctor hey told you he would come what is it about the barber shop as a location
03:05for storytelling and it's sort of it's part in sort of nigerian culture yeah when i was researching the
03:11play i traveled across sub-saharan africa just interviewing barbers and the clients but the same
03:17pattern of relationships between barbers and clients kind of came up and what the barber shops
03:22tended to to represent to give to these men is a place to hold court to tell stories to relax to be
03:31beautified by other men and there are many other places where that can happen you know where men can
03:37hold each other touch each other's necks look at each other's eyes through the mirror and there are
03:42these subtle shifts in power and dynamics that unfold naturally and it's like peeling off layers
03:49the more you do so the more you get to the identity of the person in the chair yeah um and therefore
03:54men can be really open barbershop the tardis does your hair it does it does uh i don't go there for cuts
04:03it's hard to explain you go there to to be free to feel like you are part of a community those spaces
04:15are such community spaces for black people to do exactly what the doctor wants to do in that episode
04:21which is go chill laugh joke catch up on life events we laugh we tell stories they treat you like one of
04:32our own yeah and i think stories in general is a very like it's a very human thing but they're very
04:41it's very important to african cultures there's always a tale being told in the barber shop
04:46or someone's someone's got something to say once upon a time
04:56while the doctor spends most of this episode hanging out at the barbers with the boys
05:03belinda is stuck on a highly alarmed tardis about to undergo a journey of her own
05:09are we under attack tardis hello from reluctant companion to a time traveling champion
05:17a good moment for me to catch up on set with varada
05:22that stuff you know you're just filming it now and you have to you know being scared all the lights are
05:26changing and stuff because that that was a bit different for for belinda yeah it was quite
05:30interesting because the whole scene where the doctor's saying this is my favorite place i love
05:34coming to the barber shop and belinda has a moment where she can you know all she wants all the time
05:41is to just go home yeah and that is her intention her motivation for everything is get me home i want
05:47to go back to my life but it's the first time that because she's gone so attached to the doctor and
05:53you know actually really cares about him and and his happiness yeah she wants him to have that
05:58because she loves him really yeah she's like no actually i really want to go home but all right
06:05fine no go go have your moment so they get separated yeah and it's really nice to see belinda come into
06:13her own actually completely on her own in this episode because it's the first time they've been
06:18separated and then things go wrong and then she has to rescue the doctor yeah that's quite that's
06:25quite a nice dynamic change isn't it yeah when you have to do that yeah i mean she doesn't even hesitate
06:30it's he's in danger i'm coming for you yeah she's taken the the what i'm looking for impetus impetus
06:38that's the word good word that isn't it yeah i don't know why that popped in my head that's what i was
06:42looking for thank you it's yeah we've spent too much time together yeah i know it's just finishing
06:48each other that was awkward isn't it um yeah she takes the impetus to to go out and save him
06:54yeah um she's got enough self-confidence and and also obviously the other motivation is without the
07:00doctor how is she gonna get yeah i'm saving you but also but also saving me yeah exactly yeah so yeah
07:07it's a it's it's just really nice to see her coming to her own yeah her own confidence
07:17every episode of doctor who has got something unique about it and with the story and the engine
07:21it's the fact that this is the first ever episode of doctor who set entirely in modern day africa
07:27in the nigerian city of lagos to keep everything looking and feeling authentic the team explored filming
07:34in lagos but to fly 200 plus cast and crew all the way out to africa would have been eye-wateringly
07:41expensive so it was decided that if we couldn't take cardiff out to lagos then we'd have to bring
07:47lagos back to cardiff and except for the drone shots at the top of the episode which were shot in lagos
07:54everything else was created here at wolf studios
07:56how important was it to get that story done right in the sense they were so authentic so
08:05people were watching it in nigeria people with nigerian heritage feel like it's a story for them
08:09um i think it's really important i mean i come from a caribbean background but obviously hailed from
08:15africa yeah i had contributed quite a lot to conversations about how we could make it authentic
08:19yeah um and how what how do you do that i think it came down to making sure that we had some
08:25flavor of lagos and that you know the market would actually be true yeah that set was amazing
08:31yeah so yeah absolutely brilliant absolutely brilliant but also that it would tie in so
08:36working closely with art department with director with with all the whole team of producers
08:41deciding that we would you know make sure that there wasn't at the very least
08:44a connectivity between lagos and our set so is there an element of pressure to make it work
08:52well yeah i mean with any any doctor who or with any story you're telling you want to make sure
08:57that you get it absolutely right i think that's really important for us i mean we've brought in
09:01consultants so we've had um a specific nigeria consultant who's been able to sort of give us
09:06guide different departments make sure that they understand what um would be authentic
09:12so where did the doctor who team come to find their expert in nigerian culture well barry island of
09:20course gavin and stacy isn't the only tidy thing to come out of barry born and raised in lagos
09:28tayo omocore now lives in the well lush welsh seaside town and has been the team's main nigeria
09:34consultant this episode is very specifically nigeria very specific exactly it's not it's it's not
09:41broader than that yes it needs to feel rooted in those communities absolutely market is a big part
09:47of nigeria you know that's why it was really important to to get the details right because
09:53i've seen other movies or other series order where they will shoot something about africa or nigeria
09:59that doesn't really feel africa yeah and i guess that is where dr who is coming into you know say
10:06you know what we want to do something different want to make this better we want people to feel like
10:11you know they're connected to this we don't want nigerians to see things and be put off so and i
10:16think they've they've done a good job at that for a story to be authentic it needs to be told by the
10:21people that have lived there that have experienced it that you know gone through this so i think you it
10:26was important for someone from nigeria to do that and i'm honored to to be in that position to be able
10:32to you know represent my people back home and you know raise the flag yeah taya wasn't the only
10:38consultant aryan bakari the actor playing the barber needed to learn how to cut hair welcome to my
10:46establishment your establishment the man to train him f on your bullet this man right here is going to be an
10:55evil barber i am a really evil barber look at the face he's an evil barber so basically i've been
11:01barbering for over 21 years i started when i was a little boy at the age of 11 and i also teach people
11:08in the film and tv how to do afro hair just like we're doing today aria needs to learn the art of
11:14cutting afro hair as he'll be doing it for real in camera as part of his role as the barber
11:20it's not easy the pressure's on to get it right that's it so you just have a get on this arrow
11:29so to do that you want to bring it this way in stand in the front
11:31that front against that the front go that way one slip of the clippers and he could scalp one of his
11:37fellow actors glide from here because like you're doing that you're going from you now yeah
11:44but it seems arian is a natural so if everybody wants to come to my barber shop in the next couple
11:50of weeks yo you're ready man be a bit posh we met a barber in one day yeah that was incredible
11:59and he done that all by himself today first time handling the paper and the trimmer he was able to
12:07do that so yeah i think i think i kind of he's ready i hope already but how would arian and his clippers
12:15fare on the big day and stood at the door with the hosepipe spraying and spraying until all the fires went
12:26out
12:29no sweat
12:30still to come on doctor who unleashed this isn't their first appearance in the hooniverse but can
12:39you guess which characters sule and arian have played before
12:45i'll be serving up some hot stuff on my work experience did you want to hash brown as well of
12:50course and spoiler alert we've got an exclusive clip from the next episode of doctor who
12:56but first just like you'd expect with any season of doctor who there's been quite a few
13:03creepy characters so far ai allen he was pretty creepy join with me in ecstasy and freedom
13:13mr ringeding he was air star creepy the unseen creature in the well
13:18well creepy i think
13:25you're amazing and then there was conrad in lucky day super smug gaslight creepy but for me there is
13:31nothing creepier in the whole known hooniverse than spiders okay i think i've got an actual genuine
13:37phobia i don't trust the way they move and when they look at you with their little beady eyes
13:41so the fact that this hula is set on a spider's back anyway surely i'm not the only person here
13:48with a phobia i wouldn't say i've got a phobia but i really i hate flies what there's something
13:54about flies that just make me feel ill just no no no maybe um some i think snakes oh snakes
14:03snakes because they slither funny as well don't they yeah and like they just look evil uh toads
14:09toads yeah i've got a phobia toads what what towards not frogs or or towards and frogs spit both
14:16texture and yeah it's like i remember i think the phobia started when i was on a caravan holiday
14:22and i stepped up the caravan and there was one like landed on my foot and now you're scared of them
14:26yeah they're probably scared of you as well yeah mice mice yeah why mice i remember when i was really
14:33young there was a mouse underneath my pillow and i hated it well i screamed and so i just screamed my
14:38head off but also i remember at work not recently but let's just say about the last five years yeah
14:43there was a mouse in a workplace i was working in and i stood on the chair it was a proper classic
14:47like screaming i was like maybe spiders if they're running at you at you yeah yeah if they're living in
14:54the house that's okay if they're in the corner i know where they are that's okay when they start
14:58moving towards you that's an issue yeah so maybe so you're gonna struggle this episode as well yeah
15:02yeah big time it's a really irrational one but it's um like crabs and lobsters what's wrong with
15:09the crab oh i just hate them i hate i hate the little nice little happy little claws and yeah no
15:17it's not for me you know when i go to the seaside i genuinely struggle to relax fully if
15:24even if i see one that's like miles away because it's like oh they're crawling underneath me all
15:28right so you didn't you haven't read episode that episode with no okay no no these lips are sealed
15:34there's no way you've read a scope that i haven't these lips are sealed he's playing me
15:42it's friday the 16th of february 2024 today is the calm before the storm because on monday morning 80
15:50supporting artists will be brought in to film the bustling market sequences it's clever isn't it how
15:56they get it to look like um the sun in africa with all those lights it's actually in there
16:03it feels different than out here i'd quite like to trip to my view there
16:10can't win them all the who crew are adding the final touches and director michaela mcpherson
16:16is preparing for the shoot so michaela this is uh friday end of the week but you're back here on
16:22monday filming for the first time on this set yes so what's your job today then basically just to make
16:27sure you know just to come and see the sets so it's not you know a surprise there's nothing more
16:34beneficial than walking through the sets yeah yeah and being able to walk it breathe it see it um it
16:41really helps when you're trying to visualize your ideas does something change sometimes we're like
16:45oh we i thought we would do like this but now now i've seen that lettuce there i might want to you
16:49know what i mean oh you might want to get those computers or whatever i always say it's good to
16:52have a plan and i'm a big planner but ultimately you also have to be prepared for that plan to be
16:59thrown out the window sometimes it's nice to be organic and just see what what happens on the
17:04days and that's what's exciting about it yeah well good luck on monday it's going to be fun it's
17:08going to be hectic and yeah it's going to be great fast forward to 7am monday morning and the studio
17:15is already buzzing with people we're in lagos and it kind of feels like it too i feel like i'm in a hot
17:22place even though it's freezing in the studio like i i don't need my coat right now the who crew have
17:28only got today to film the market scenes tomorrow the whole set needs to be taken down to make way for
17:34the alleyways and barbershop exterior so the pressure's on so we've got 80 essays today which
17:40is a lot of people to get through quite a small space but it's good because it makes it look really
17:45busy and it looks great on camera and they're all brilliant we've got the best set of essays that
17:50we have ever had on this show ever responsible for making sure this small army of extras get through
17:56hair makeup and costume and on to the set on time is crowd second assistant director rosie pepper
18:02so for our team today majority of us started at half five this morning we have 25 makeup artists
18:09with us today we have about eight costume members come about quarter to eight i'll know if we're
18:14running behind on art but so far so good the teams are working so hard and so well and we're on track to
18:19be on time just to add to the market madness pepper is also expecting a vip who will be making a cameo
18:28appearance in the market scenes on that note has anyone had eyes on inua or a writer it was i don't
18:34know whose idea it was actually but basically inua is actually going to be playing a starring role
18:38himself as our main trader today i sort of made a joke in one of the script meetings that i you know
18:47i could play um a trader i just thought it'd be funny but they all capitalized on it and
18:52uh here i am i'm being treated as as an extra which is perfect there's no there's no specialist
18:59treatment or anything i'm just bossing around um sitting out being told stand here do there go there
19:06say this it's nice with inua and the essays all good to go there's just enough time for some last
19:13minute checks if i can count i think this is about 60 odd that's if i can count but no we are ahead of
19:20schedule which is fantastic so yeah that's what i love to say is a proud second we will be traveling
19:26and you head back take your belongings meet the team by the doors we'll start traveling over under the
19:31brawlies thank you very very much let's do this right time to get those 80 essays wedged onto the tiny
19:39market set talk about sardines there's a lot of people in a small space but it looks really busy
19:46i think it looks really good it's really fun lots of color lots of energy yeah it's exciting with the
19:51set jam-packed and everyone ready okay look you've got the time the clock is already ticking time for
19:57some action sorry i i have no money that's your problem though you don't have to go anywhere now
20:18me and you today i've never been on set before and i've never been on the set of this size before
20:24two things so there are lots and lots of moving parts but it's exciting yes it's amazing
20:31back in the same position again please
20:36thank you
20:41it's that time in the episode where i roll up my sleeves and take on some work experience
20:47and today i've got a particularly early start obviously actors are important you know the
20:53direct important the camera crew is important etc etc but probably the people that keep this
20:59whole show on the road are the catering staff and that's why i'm working with this morning the catering
21:04team are led by leon hello hello what's the plan what are you doing it's it's five o'clock in the
21:11morning what do you what are you doing um so we're getting ready for breakfast yeah and then we will
21:16have four hours turn around to lunch yeah so we finish breakfast a we need to be ready by 12 o'clock
21:23so you're already pre it's it's five in the morning if you're already prepping lunch yeah yeah we have
21:27to because we haven't got the time to today we've got 240 and it could go up to 280 the day goes really
21:36quick yeah so on the menu today is um chicken tikka so yeah chicken legs you're lucky we've done the
21:47bulk of it so you've done the odd work have you yeah good right then so if you chuck that in here right
21:56any particular is there i mean this is a dark question clear but i feel like this is a safe
21:59space and i'm allowed to ask super questions yo please do thank you very much it doesn't matter how
22:03i shove these chickens in that sauce um is it no there we have all you need to do is is massaging
22:10i'm just gonna mass massage this chicken into the incisions other meat-free options are available
22:17how's that yeah great what's the best part or the funnest part of working in in catering tv in particular
22:24you open the kitchen hatch and there can be a different view every day yeah and you're in
22:29a different part of the country you know like we worked across britain really have you ever had a
22:35a time when just like somebody dressed up half as an alien turns up and yeah yeah we've had a job
22:40where um i opened the hatch and it was naked extras and uh it was they were having a party in a forest
22:49and nobody told me so the hatch opens and we're like hi like okay good morning yeah you're doing
22:58a good job here that's thank you very much just speed up quite a lot
23:04and if there was like someone watching this who loves cooking loves working on tv is this something
23:09you'd encourage them to come and do or do you know you know it's um i think it's good for your confidence
23:15and stuff you're mixing with from your builders to sparks to you know actors creative side yeah
23:23it's a broad spectrum of different people yeah different backgrounds so i think it's a great melting
23:29pot of a workspace yeah okay so lunch is ready to go should we get on with breakfast then yes the next
23:36lovely fantastic it's almost 7am and i've offered to help leon with the breakfast rush so here's the
23:42serving section you pack a lot into a tight space don't you like i mean there's a lot of options yeah
23:48are you ready do you mind if this hello mate do you mind if i serve you today is that right
23:53it's this first day if things go wrong these are the pros right so they can they can tidy up after
23:58me if i cock it up which is a distinct possibility what would you like yes smoked salmon cream cheese
24:06bagel coming right up do you want any any toppings on that do you want a hash brown as well hiya you're
24:12right morning how can i help you two brown tossing five bit of scrambled egg two poached eggs
24:20yeah there's a flow what i've noticed is when it's working like one of you swaps in and out it's like
24:25you've got to feel it you know happy friday that's okay two sausages for biagi yeah if i choose
24:31incorrectly then cut me some slack hey chaps thank you very much for letting me in and getting in
24:37your way appreciate it thank you lads thank you very much thank you thank you do you want to come
24:43back oh well i'm gonna i'm gonna be i'm gonna be you're gonna be serving me now
24:46i'm gonna start having for a lot of the cast working on this episode was a bit of a reunion
24:59michael who plays obioma and sule who plays omo both appeared on stage in inua's play the barbershop
25:06chronicles and for sule being in doctor who brings back some other memories especially special for me
25:13because this is the first time i was on here on the show as a as an essay yeah it was 20 years ago
25:18no way like apparently actually russle is like day one of filming sule was there on the first day of
25:24filming when the bbc and russell t davis brought back doctor who way back in 2005. he appeared as a
25:32supporting artist in aliens of london confronting a space pig in a hospital so like it's come like full
25:38circle and believe it or not this is aryan or the barber to you and me playing leandro the leonian
25:46battling peter capaldi's doctor so it seems the barber shop is the perfect location to catch up
25:53and hang out with old friends the four of you there's a real like team spirit real comrade
25:59because obviously you've been in there for five years in the show but also working together intensely
26:02yeah i think we're quite lucky actually because a couple with some of us we know we know a lot of
26:05us know each other yeah and um i know sule as well and it's quite you know that item was quite small but
26:11that i think that really helped and we've got quite a nice energy you know as ourselves yeah as just as
26:17friends yeah so it kind of translates on the screen yeah yeah and individually i can you can tell that
26:21each of us individually is really excited to be here and so when you bring that in and already that
26:27energy is going to be like 95 the job is done for you yeah it just gives it that extra edge and makes
26:34it so much easier to work because yeah yeah it does michael's a good friend spola's a good friend
26:39be reunited with v that i worked with before i'm meeting jordan who's now going to be a good friend
26:44as well notice he got that in there yeah i got that in you know he's the only he's the only one i've not
26:48met before this yeah so you know it's always fun i mean it's always a pleasure never a chore i mean
26:55i've been back quite a few times for different episodes and um i mean i love the whole franchise
27:00of doctor who so it was a riot i knew from that first read-through that it was going to be a very
27:06loud very energetic episode and indeed it was each actor literally just like left themselves on that set
27:16each day they gave everything they possibly could give and that was very very special the cast are just
27:24amazing like we've had so many jokes there's been so much laughter and it's like being with my
27:29brothers it's been great even though a bit annoying that is a massive thank you
27:40it was so fun this particular set we all bonded loads in those three weeks we enjoyed each other's
27:47company but actually when we finished i felt bereft i felt really sad i felt like i'd lost family
27:53members it was a very strange experience in the next episode of doctor who i watched with my mum
28:10and dad when i was little best night of the year they'd let me stay up late for voting as long as i
28:18brushed my teeth and got into my pyjamas look at me now
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