Nerdette: 'Doctor Who' Star Alex Kingston
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In a conversation with Nerdette host and known Whovian Tricia Bobeda, Alex Kingston discusses her role on ‘Doctor Who’ as fan-favorite River Song, which helped pave the way for the show’s first female Doctor.
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| 0:13.6 | From W be Z Chicago, this is Nurdette. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:20.1 | And I am Greta Johnson and today we are talking with actress Alex Kingston. |
| 0:24.1 | She played Dr Corday on ER and also River Song on Dr. Hoop. We'll talk with her |
| 0:30.1 | about what she's obsessed with later on in the show but first let's just |
| 0:32.6 | take a minute to realize how exciting it is Tricia that you get to talk to |
| 0:35.3 | someone who's in Dr. Who? I'm still very excited about this interview happened |
| 0:39.3 | and I'm still excited about it because Dr. Who is my favorite show and River Song the character played by Alex Kingston is kind of my favorite character. |
| 0:48.0 | How could you know? I'm an archaeologist from the future. |
| 0:52.0 | I dug you up. So Dr. Who is a super popular show around the world. |
| 0:57.8 | It's also extremely complicated. So Tricia, we thought what we would do is have you explain to the people what Dr. |
| 1:05.2 | Who is all about. |
| 1:06.2 | Okay, I'm an evangelist for this show. |
| 1:08.0 | I feel like I have a pretty good Cliff Notes version of what Dr. Who is that I can tell people. You're a good nerd |
| 1:13.2 | ambassador but we kind of thought we would actually like kick up the |
| 1:16.2 | stakes a little bit so we had our executive producer Joel Meyer actually read the |
| 1:21.0 | Wikipedia page about Doctor Who, |
| 1:23.2 | except it's in German. |
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