Actors would be like that. I used to study in a theater studio under the apprenticeship of a professional theater and movie director and I swear I was deadly sure he was only sixty or maybe even fifty years old. However, as it turns out he was actually more than eighty years old. He always was such an energetic man that I couldn't believe it, when I eventually found out.
Sylvester is a treasure. As a kid I had a Doctor Who club at my school that used to get many actors and crew from Doctor Who come to our school in Merton, London and talk to us, we had Michael Wisher, Nicholas Courtney, Terrence Dicks and JNT to name a few, but a real highlight was a trip to BBC TV Centre to the set of Ghostlight, and we got to watch dress rehearsals. Sylv and Sophie came and talked to us on their break and in costume. I was wearing my knitted tank top with the question marks my gran made for me, and Sylv wasn’t wearing his, but he said “SNAP!” And I said he wasn’t wearing his, but é said it was dress rehearsal and it was too hot lol. The pair of them were so lovely. Such a highlight from my childhood.
@@sg-zd8eb We were pretty tongue-tied. It was the same when we went to see Jon Pertwee in ‘The Ultimate Adventure’. We got to meet him backstage and we were just as pathetic then as we were with Sylv :D
Moffat said it best - after the earlier ‘Pip and Jane’ misfires of Season 24, the whole shebang was firmly back on the rails by _Remembrance of the Daleks._ I’d actually go so far as to argue that things were slowly turning around even as early as _Delta and the Bannermen_ . . .
When Sylvester was announced, my generation knew him from a contemporary children's show called 'Eureka', about inventors. And so I already knew him from that. But if you go back you could have anticipated an even more anarchic Doctor than he ended up being!
Sylvester is such an entertainer! I saw him at a convention a few years ago and he was just as mad during his panel! There's a reason why he's my favourite Doctor!
It was a Great Panel!!! I was there and it was the best panel on that Friday!! I did actually meet McCoy on that Sunday and he was really nice and cool!! I hope that he shows up for the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary!
I was lucky enough to see McCoy at a convention appearance in St. Paul, Minnesota back in 1987. He was immensely charming and entertaining and I was a diehard fan of his Doctor Who from day one.
How wonderful to see Sylvester McCoy doing these conventions, he is great and very entertaining. I could easily listen to him for ages. I love to meet him and see something like this live one day, in fact him Colin and Tom are all quite entertaining at these conventions it seems and would love to meet them all. Also good on him coming down into the crowd too!
I used to watch Sylvester every Saturday morning on Tiswas. He was so wacky and such a laugh. He hasn't lost any of his vitality or enthusiasm. A real entertainer!
Hes still got the magic he held them for the entire 40 minutes and didnt even need the stage lol if the moderator hadnt interrupted Im sure he wouldve continued talking to them for another hour.
My respect for him just goes up and up....I remember him on Vision On (look it up) so to me he was always a talent since the early 70s. He makes it look effortless which is a real skill.
I love how Sylvester dresses ‘Doctorish’ in private life, in accordance with _his_ Doctor’s style! I guess this convention costume is a _little_ more affected than he’d wear on the street ‘cos he’s slightly ‘in character’ here but it’s still pretty indicative of how he does often dress. A lot of the time his costumes are better than the TV version insofar as they’re less ‘designed’ and a little more toned down and natural (I love his costume’s silhouette and colours but the ‘?’ sweater vest was bad). ‘Crocs’ are bad though! 🤣
That's because they had less than a month to create the Doctor's costume since the entire pre-production of season 24 was so messy with Eric Saward having stormed out as script editor before season 23 was even finished and the BBC demanding JNT to sack Colin Baker if he wanted a season 24 at all. This resulted in Sylvester having to take a publicity photo wearing his private attire and in the end their costume did take some cues from that, resulting in his Doctor's attire ending up looking somewhat similar to his private one.
Similar. In fact Alex Tuplin on the school bus told me it was the guy from 'Eureka' (our contemporary reference for a children's show - even though I subsequently recognized him as one of the 'O-Men' on Jigsaw) and my immediate thought was 'That fits'. And it's important you get that immediate buzz. So many names were passed around before Jodie was mooted - just before she was announced - and I had the same impression. In fact, I think there are similarities in the performance.
I love sylvester mccoy he is my seventh favourite doctor who and love remember of daleks and Time and the rani and paradise towers and slive nemesis and the gaesteshow in the galaxy and the happiness potrot and series 25 and series 26 and series 24 of classic doctor who
What's your point? The very first question posed to Sylv is utter woke bollocks "Especially in these days of toxic positivity...." ???!!!!! What the hell does that even mean?!!!
@@rnw2739 I dont understand what are you pointing at I was talking about them doing progressive politics behind the scenes way before new who even started
@@abcdefgh6951 Sylvester even said that the writing wasn't very good for Jodie. Which is true. She was done a massive disservice. And doctor who prior to season 10 did messaging a lot more tactfully than they do these days.
@@diamondaxe4133 I am not saying its good, just that its there, the people I am talking about dont care that its done badly just that it would even be there
Modern Who is just a bunch of Identity politics, which isn't about expressing a genuine political view, but instead is more about posing. They call it "virtue signalling". Back in 20th century Who the politics were genuinely held by the show's makers. Conversely, Nu-hu depends on changing the Doctor into another minority identity every 3 series in order to gain decent figures, as a business strategy. They will soon run out of identities to exploit. Luckily for them the US has invented a new one. But will "transgender" still prove to be a rating's magnet in five years time, especially in the UK? Nu-hu has been circling the drain for a while now. No one can even remember the last time it was decent. Eve of the Daleks is as good as it's ever going to get.
@@DistantCousin yea totally I experience that in daily life all the time, it's not like I am offended people don't do it intentionally, but still everytime it hurts a little, but the guy in video might be confident enough to not even care I might be projecting
Woke is just a word being used by people not able to critique something in a digestible fashion. So even when there is issues with the writing it’s always drowned out by bigotry or lazy people, a thought they tend to come hand in hand
If you're into politics then it's never boring to hear the Whos being political, although, being actors, they rarely voice an opinion. Eccleston would be the exception but he's the black sheep of the Who "fam"
Depends. I can see it both ways. I don’t think that being a prominent actor is necessarily the right ‘platform’ to talk politics, but then again, why not? - free speech applies to everybody, right? As long as it’s a bit more insightful and erudite than when they just jump onto the _’Muh Tories are racist, muh Brexit is racist, muh U.K. is racist!’_ bandwagon (looking at _YOU,_ David Tennant), and they’re little more objectively reserved about it then it’s OK I guess. Notice how McCoy praises Jodie herself rather than her performance or her interpretation of the character. Anyway, modern _Doctor Who_ is woke as a joke and Ncuti and T-gurl aren’t going to go down well at all . . .
