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Andrew Dunn - Max, the pub landlord.

Introductions
  Could you tell us who you are playing?

My name’s Andrew Dunn, I’ve been an actor for about 23 years and I play Max who is the landlord of the pub. He’s one of the people who are taken over by the Shalka, so I’m forced to do things against my will.

Getting animated
  Are you looking forward to seeing the final animation?

I’ve never actually done any before but when it was explained to me it sounds exciting and I’m really looking forward to seeing it. I don’t know the full set up of it all yet but the way people have explained it it makes me look forward to seeing it.

Imagination
  Do you think science fiction works well as animation?

For science fiction – yes I’m sure. I mean it’s like any drama, you know, there’s different aspects, if you can just hear it, it’s your own imagination making up the pictures. You’re doing more work and so it’s just as exciting as watching television.

Tool time
  What is the most bizarre role you’ve ever played?

It was an advert I did in Holland and it was for power tools for some DIY store. They had us on a catwalk displaying our power tools and they’d shipped in 200 women from some colleges to scream at us. Actually, it wasn’t odd - it’s just came back to me - that was a brilliant job!

Did you have a big tool?

I did have a big tool, yes, it was a full power drill, mate. All these girls screaming at you, it was great.

Low fat landlord
  How would you like your character to look?

They can reduce my nose a bit. Just make me better looking and not so fat around the chins, because when I see myself on television I think, ‘Oh that is awful’. If you can just draw perfection that will be fine.

Splendid chaps
  What were your fellow actors like to work with?

They’re all wonderful, marvellous people. No they are, that’s the great thing about actors, you know, you’ve never met them before but everyone gets on really well, that’s the good thing about it.

In the beginning
  Where would you travel to if you had a TARDIS?

That’s a difficult one, because I quite like history. Would you want to go to a battle scene or see what happened at Waterloo? Would you like to go back to see Brunel building one of his great Victorian bridges or tunnels.

Daleks before Dixon
  What's your earliest memory of Doctor Who?

The very first episode. That’s how old I am. I was born in Leeds and I remember – I must have been 5 or 6 - watching an old black and white television and it was William Hartnell as the Doctor. It was fascinating, this blue police box, the TARDIS and all this blinking machinery and everything.

I was always frightened of every creature I came across. I remember these creatures that were like giant ants [the Zarbi] and things that crept out of the cliff and I was cowering behind the settee at that. Daleks always used to scare me because I’d never seen anything like them. I always remember it because it was Doctor Who, Dixon of Dock Green and tea. William Hartnell, I still remember him as the Doctor really, even though there’s been six or seven others.