Samuel Anderson has confessed he was too scared to touch anything the first time he stepped into the TARDIS on the set of Doctor Who.
The actor plays Danny Pink in the new series of the show and admits that when he first got to try out the spaceship, he was on his best behaviour.
Samuel Anderson as Danny Pink / Credit: BBCHe explained: "For the first few days your the new boy so you're behaving and you don't really want to touch anything. But you feel like a child inside, let's be honest we're actors, we play make believe for a living. So for the first couple of days I didn't touch anything, I behaved myself and acted like a professional then after the first week you're playing with everything.
"Jenna said to me, 'For the first two days you didn't touch a thing you were very professional. When I got here I was playing with everything.' "
However, once his nerves had settled and he'd gotten more comfortable he thinks of the Police Box as a "second home".
"The TARDIS is like a second home to me now - and it is a lot bigger on the inside! The first time you go inside it is brilliant, and everything in there works, literally everything you see on the screen that has a button or a little knob, or a lever that you pull, or things that twist actually does something. The art department has done an incredible job. It's a brilliant piece of engineering."
Danny plays companion Clara Oswald's love interest, and insists the two are embarking on an exciting and gripping storyline starting with next episode The Caretaker.
He teased: "We've only had a sprinkle, a taster of Danny Pink so far. It's about to kick off in a very big way, the story arch that Steven Moffat has put in this series means were going places. Jenna has been really good to me, I actually had to audition with her and she has really looked after me."
Doctor Who continues this Saturday at 8.30pm on BBC One.
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