Ingrid Oliver Teases Osgood’s Resurrection

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Unless you’ve joined Hermits United – “Good fun! (For a Hermit)” – you’ll know that Osgood, who died in Death in Heaven, didn’t die in Death in Heaven – or at the very least, she might’ve died in Death in Heaven, but she’s back in Series 9 anyway.

Yep, the would-be companion and member of UNIT returns in a sequel to The Day of the Doctor, written by Peter Harness (Kill the Moon) and showrunner, Steven Moffat, in Invasion of the Zygons/ Inversion of the Zygons. Actress, Ingrid Oliver is remaining coy, however, on how the character seems to have cheated the grim reaper:

“There’s lots of different possibilities, and I’ve heard all of them! Even the Doctor asks me what I am, and I don’t tell him…”

In fact, she didn’t get confirmation that Osgood would be back until just before shooting commenced:

“Well they check your availability first, to see that you’re actually around, so I was like ‘Oh right, okay…’ But as with anything, with Doctor Who everything can change, so you don’t get too excited until you actually know you’re coming back. It was quite shortly before we actually started filming the eps that I knew I was definitely coming back. So it was all quite a quick turnaround, very exciting.”

Of course she acted opposite the Zygons, monsters that debuted in 1975’s Terror of the Zygons, in the 50th anniversary special, so what was it like this time around?

“On the second day of filming, I had quite a dramatic speech, quite a moving speech, and as an actor you’re used to just saying a speech like that to the other person, and there’s probably soaring music in the background and it’s all very gentle; and I realised very quickly that we won’t be able to do that because we’re also looking for Zygons! It was very odd; it’s an adjustment, but that’s the world of Doctor Who, and Peter [Capaldi] was saying that you don’t just stand there and deliver dialogue, you’re always doing something, whether it’s running from a blowing-up building or looking for monsters. It’s good fun though, it’s really good fun.”

And will there be any further appearances from the character after Series 9…? She’s not sure:

“I genuinely don’t know; anything’s possible. But I’d like to – I love it, I really do. It’s one of those jobs, it’s just ridiculous – we were on set the other day and it was like a proper Indiana Jones set, the kind of thing you’d never get to film unless it was Doctor Who, the kind of stuff that when you were a kid and you walked round Universal Studios or something you’d go, ‘One day I want to be an actor.’ It’s brilliant, so I would always come back.”

We’ll have to wait a while to see Osgood back on our screens, but fingers crossed her resurrection is a smart, intriguing story that justifies her return – which I look forward to!

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