“I was going to do a tape but ran out of time because I was in America shooting another film, so my agent worked really hard and sent over lots of clips and videos – they liked them and gave me the role”.
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Williams will star alongside Coleman in an upcoming episode of “Doctor Who”.
Maisie Williams has spoken about what it was like to star in a two-part episode of British sci-fi series Doctor Who.
“I am a viking and then we may rout a person on the concept of battle”, Williams’ Ashildr laughs inside the prowling distant chase they comes personally, by having much into the get anxious of causing clearly confused Clara Oswald. “At the moment I’m enjoying this industry and I don’t want to stop any time soon”, she said.
“I’m still trying to be a good role model, because whether I like it or not I do influence a lot of people”, Williams said.
She said: “I didn’t realise when I was younger that women were written so badly, but going further into this career I realised there are a lot of really bad characters, that it’s not common to come across females who aren’t just “the girlfriend”.
She added that it was something her Doctor Who co-star Jenna Coleman had also picked up on from reading character descriptions in scripts.
“There there’s his girlfriend – Sarah: hot, blonde”.
Ed Bazalgette is behind the camera on the episode, which features guest stars Maisie Williams and Rufus Hound, with Jamie Mathieson (Mummy On The Orient Express, Flatline) on writing duties. Hot-looking but in a cute way. I don’t know which would have more, but it’s very nice to have that familiar bearded, hairy men setting.
As already hinted by executive producer Steven Moffat, Williams’ character is not a returning character but actually a new one.
Maisie goes on to say she hopes that she won’t ever “have to play a character that is only there to benefit a male lead”, admitting that she’s had similar conversations with other actresses.
What do Ashildr and The Doctor say to the God of Death?
Read her full interview in the new issue of Radio Times, in shops and on newsstands now. They practically saw her grow up during “Game of Thrones” and they would have thought that her performance on the show would have wowed the show creators of “Doctor Who”.
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Olivia’s “Doctor Who” role was a fairly ordinary one… oh, unless you count those terrifying gnashers, that is.
