He’s been an invaluable presence on several series of Doctor Who, and he’s probably died nearly as m
He’s been an invaluable presence on several series of Doctor Who, and he’s probably died nearly as many times as Rory Williams. His name is Matthew Jay, and he’s an extra.It was by chance that I met Matthew one evening at a Doctor Who pub quiz in Cardiff. None of my usual teammates were in attendance that day, and I was invited to join a group of friendly regulars. I happened to mention People Of Who, and my quest to photograph the people who have been a part of making Doctor Who happen.“Does that include extras?” he asks me. “Because I’ve been an extra on Doctor Who.”Wizard. I’m sure I was beaming with delight as Matthew and his friends told me of all the times he’d been killed on the show - by Daleks, Slitheen, the Master, and so on - and even once or twice when he’s managed to escape a day’s filming unscathed. He also gives tours of various Doctor Who filming locations in and around Cardiff, and Gosh knows there are a lot of them.Extras really are the unsung heroes of the Doctor Who world. They unobtrusively populate the world around the story: without them, it would seem strangely quiet indeed. And the frequency with which they bravely sacrifice their lives to many and various alien menaces is really something. It tells us those aliens are properly dangerous without having to introduce a new Doctor every week, and that’s important. So thank you for letting yourself get killed all those times, sir. You rock.(Also, that night was the first and only time I’ve been on the winning team at a pub quiz.) -- source link
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