Sylvester McCoy jumped at the chance to return to 'Doctor Who.'
Sylvester McCoy had always wanted to work with Jodie Whittaker
The 80year-old actor played the titular Time Lord in the BBC sci-fi series in the late 1980s but made a cameo appearance in the 2022 episode 'The Power of the Doctor' as then-star Jodie Whittaker bowed out of the role and thought it was "wonderful" that he ended up reuniting with fellow former Doctor Colin Baker.
He told RadioTimes.com: "When we were asked to do it, I said yes. Immediately. I said I'd go and do Jodie's last show I also longed to work with Jodie, who is the most delightful, wonderful lady. Joyful, energetic. Full of bounce and vitality and talent. Great actress. And so it was wonderful to do it. And it was great that all of us did it. We eventually got there too late, actually for the 50th, but I'm glad the way we are now. "We didn't do the 50th because out of it came the five Doctors reboot and we are all so proud of that. In fact, Colin said it was the happiest job he'd ever done in his acting life."
Sylvester also reunited with his on-screen companion Sophie Aldred - who played Ace on the show during the late 1980s -as part of the episode and explained it was an "emotional moment" to be back together with his former co-star.
He added: "Sophie had the hardest job because she was up a mountain in a cave talking to a brick wall. I mean, she almost didn't notice the difference between acting with me and talking to this brick wall. Anyway, she had to imagine I was there, but I was in the studio later, and as luck would have it, Sophie was around and she came. She fed me the lines off while so I had an easier job because I was actually looking into Sophie's eyes while I was acting with her. And it was, you know, easy to and one became very nostalgic. It became emotional. It was, you know, it was an emotional moment.
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