‘Started to panic!’ Doctor Who star recalls terror as she struggled to breathe in costume
express.co.ukDoctor Who left her “struggling to breath”.The star, who played infamous Slitheen Margaret Blaine, recalled shooting the very first episode of the Doctor Who revival in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk.
Annette, 71, has worked in some of the UK’s biggest television shows over the years, including Doctor Who. Asked what it was like to appear as the lead slitheen, she admitted: “I was never in the costume!
I didn’t have to wear it. “I had to wear the arm when I tried to strangle Billie (Piper) and I was made to practise a lot because it was actually lots of 6 ft tall men.There was one girl. “They’d take the heads off and you’d just see some sweaty foreheads and a pair of desperate eyes and then they’d want some water or a cigarette and the head would go back on!” she chuckled.
Annette then went on to describe how her head cast fitting had left her beginning to panic. “They had a prosthetic zip on my forehead, but I also had to have a full head cast,” she explained.“You have to have all these straws up your nose and things and they give you these hand signals in case you’re panicking and you feel you can’t breathe anymore.“It takes about half an hour and about 20 mins in, I began to panic and say, ‘Oh I can’t do this, I can’t breathe!’ “But then I’d have to talk to myself and go, ‘No, you’ve been breathing now for 20 minutes, calm down, you can do this.’ Annette then went on to give a hilarious account of when she came face to face with her own head.“It was extraordinary when they… I was filming when the head arrived,” Anette recalled.“And Phil Colinson the producer and Russell T.
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