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Peter Capaldi: 'Being Doctor Who was more fun than being me'


The Twelfth Doctor actor looks back fondly on the role.

While he's been open about the fact that he wouldn't return to the role, he clearly looks back fondly on it, exclusively telling RadioTimes.com: "It was just an incredible experience. While Capaldi won't be returning to the Whoniverse anytime soon, he's reprised his role as another character with a "complicated relationship with time" in The Devil's Hour season 2, as his character Gideon hunts a monster alongside Jessica Raine's Lucy. "Last time, it was just me in a cell, and so I requested that we give him more humanity in that what he does has a cost, because I think originally, it was slightly more veiled - I wanted to make him more vulnerable.

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