Doctor Who Christmas Special The Time of the Doctor Tasha Lem Interview - Orla Brady

Orla Brady, galactic nun Tasha Lem in the Doctor Who Christmas Special & Mother Superius of the Papal Mainframe, chats about working with Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman, her favourite scene with the Daleks, being in prosthetics and her scenes with the Silents, the other baddies in the Christmas Special including weeping Angels, the Silents and the Cybermen, the backstory between Tasha Lem and the Doctor, the Blade Runner look suggested by director Jamie Payne, researching previous Doctor Who episodes such as Blink, Hide and The Empty Child & why she'd love a spin-off for Tasha Lem. Orla Brady also chats about friend and fellow Mistresses star Sarah Parish who played the Empress of the Racnoss, why stepping into the Tardis was magical, how the Christmas Special episode has balanced saying goodbye to Matt Smith with welcoming the new Doctor Peter Capaldi, why Peter Capaldi will be a wonderful new Doctor and how Orla worked with him previously on The Vicar of Dibly Christmas Special & what she thinks about the regeneration cycles dilemma that Steven Moffat recently discussed.
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ORLA BRADY
Orla is perhaps best known for her role as 'Elizabeth Bishop' in the award-winning hit US-series FRINGE and as 'Siobhan' in the successful BBC One series MISTRESSES, in which she starred in all three seasons. Orla will also be seen as Countess Rossakoff in the penultimate POIROT and in the lead role of pioneering modernist architect and designer Eileen Gray in THE PRICE OF DESIRE alongside Alanis Morissette and Vincent Perez.