Peter Capaldi loved the "B movie kind of cobbled together quality" on 'Doctor Who'.
Peter Capaldi as the Doctor
The 63-year-old actor - who played the Time Lord from 2013 to 2017 - has compared BBC's sci-fi show to his work on movie 'The Suicide Squad', and he explained how the blockbuster film benefited from a bigger budget.
He told Digital Spy: "There was more money, you know, like 'Doctor Who', we don't, we don't really have enough - everything on 'Doctor Who' falls to pieces, all of the props fall to pieces and the costumes have to be stuck together with duct tape and Velcro and stuff.
"I like the kind of B movie kind of cobbled together, quality of it, you know that it's really there's never really quite enough money, but the ideas are often very special that's what I like.
"But it's also nice to be somewhere where they do have enough money to make the monsters look ... scary.”
Peter admitted "everything" about 'The Suicide Squad' was "bigger" than the sci-fi show.
He added: “['The Suicide Squad'] was totally different [to 'Doctor Who'] because it was so much bigger.
"I mean that everything about it what was bigger. And also, you know, we had this incredible cast."
He's not the first person connected to the show to bring up the budget issues, as former showrunner Steven Moffat - who was followed by current boss Chris Chibnall - admitted he had his own financial concerns with the rise of HBO, Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Speaking in 2018, he said: "That [was] the big challenge of 'Doctor Who' … running the risk of looking as cheap now as it did [during the original series], compared to what the rest of TV is doing, unless they put a whole lot more money into it.
“A show that generates as much money as 'Doctor Who' should be getting more of it back, frankly.”
The full interview with Peter Capaldi is available now on the Digital Spy website - https://www.digitalspy.com/.
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