DAVID TENNANT IS A NEPO BABY

GOOD Omens and Rivals star David Tennant has confessed that he is a ‘nepo baby’ after admitting his TV minister dad used his contacts to get him in the door of his first telly job.  

The Scottish born Doctor Who star whose adopted son Ty has also been labelled a Nepo baby on account of his famous family, admitted that the connections his dad Sandy Macdonald had in broadcasting came in handy when he started out his acting career.
David explained on his podcast: “He was a minister in the Church of Scotland…The kind of minister, he was very pastoral and hands-on, and he got sort of stuck into all the community stuff.
Asked if he were a Nepo baby David then said : “Oh, definitely.. Yeah. Because also then, Sandy MacDonald became a bit of a television star in Scottish television. He used to do the Thought for the Day and the Late Night Thought for the Day. Oh, they're amazing. It used to be a thing that was on Scottish television every night after the 10 o'clocknews, I think. A little sort of thought. It was called Late Call. And it would be a little Thought for the Day. There'd be usually a minister. I think, you know, as the years went on, they'd controversially now and again have a rabbi or, you know, someone from another faith. It all got, you know, they got quite daring as the years went on. Yeah.
And he would sit there on a little chair with a little table with a bowl of flowers next to him. And he'd go, ‘good evening’.
And he would do a little five minutes and he wrote it himself. Every day he had to have a thought. And you'd record them, you know, in sort of a morning in Scottish television. And then he had his own religious affairs magazine program as well called That's the Spirit.
David then said his dad sent off his picture to the drama department of Scottish Television.
He added: “Not a mate because he didn't know the drama people at Scottish television, but he knew there was a drama department. I suppose because he had a bit of an in, he knew how to get to it. This is absolutely nepotism. If I'm a nepo baby, this is the moment. Just before I went to drama school, he took a photograph of me in the back garden, and this is where he didn't really understand.
He said, ‘Do some big poses’. I was just in a white t-shirt, I remember, and it was a very sunny day.
I can picture these burned into my retinas. I was doing things like shouting at the sky and kind of doing big poses. Anyway. He found someone at Scottish television to send them to. Not somebody he knew, but he found a desk for them to land on. A man called Haldane Duncan, who was a producer-director. Of course, there's so many elements of luck here, but they landed on his desk as he was looking for a 15-year-old to be in a children's drama called Dramarama, which was a kind of anthology show. Every one of the ITV regional stations made two or three episodes each year, and they all contributed it to this series for children's television.
There was only three channels back then, remember? And he was looking to cast a ghost story that needed three teenagers, and this landed on his desk, and he got me in, and I got a part in a Dramarama.”

PETER CAPALDI TRIBUTE TO WIFE

DOCTOR Who and The Thick Of It star Peter Capaldi has paid tribute to his producer and actress wife Elaine Collins as he revealed she took a job to let him pursue his unpredictable acting career when they both struggled financially. 

The 66 year old from Glasgow, who stars in the new series of Black Mirror, is notoriously private about his marriage, but wanted it noted that Lanarkshire born Elaine, also 66, gave him the financial freedom he needed to choose his roles.

Elaine made her acting debut in 1975 in  series Lord Peter Wimsey before movies including Soft Top Hard Shoulder, Mrs Brown and The Wyvern Mystery as well as TV shows City Lights, Selling Hitler and Psychos. 

Since the 2000s, she has worked as associate producer on drama film Strictly Sinatra, as well as being a script editor on detective series A Touch of Frost and creative director on shows like Shetland.

Now living in London, the couple met in 1983 working for Paines Plough Theatre Company, and married in 1991. They have a daughter born in 1992 and two grandsons. 

Peter says without Elaine his acting career in movies like Local Hero and Dangerous Liaisons wouldn’t ever have been possible. 

He explained: “Elaine really changed my life. She's an incredible woman, amazing mother and producer and actress and all of these things. I don't want to go into it in huge detail because I also have a private life but she's the person who changed everything for me because she took me in at a time when I wasn't in great shape, and loved me. Ironically for someone who's had such an embarrassment of riches, great luck and good fortune, I developed quite a kind of lack of confidence, applying limitations to myself that were not necessary, when I was probably about 26, 27.”

“People think the first automatic characteristic of an actor would be that they were full of confidence. I know many actors who are genuinely insecure because the business is so volatile and you can be ditched by it very quickly. And you have no control over it. One of the things that happened to me was that I decided that I wasn't really very clever or very smart or that I should limit my ambition.”

Peter who said he suffered a type of ‘imposter syndrome’ at the time added: “She began to say to me, ‘No you must think more of yourself. You must work harder and take bigger risks and read more.’”

“It's funny, because people come in to our house, and say, ‘Oh, you're so well read, Peter’.And I say, ‘That's not my books, they're Elaine’s.’ And of course, during one of my down periods, which went on for quite a while, we were really struggling financially. But she decided when we had a particularly difficult year, and I wasn't bringing in any money, that she had to do something. And she asked around and got a job through the BBC reading scripts“

“…So she would read scripts and she'd get paid. I don't know how much, 25 quid or something like that. Elaine took it very seriously and also was very fast so began to earn more money.

“And the BBC noticed and said ‘This person is really good at doing this. Shall we invite her to apply for a job as a drama assistant?’ That was really a job that largely someone who had just come from Oxford or Cambridge would normally get.

And she applied, she got the job.”

“Although that wasn't a lot of money, it was a regular wage and it allowed me to say, ‘Okay, well, I don't have to do this job or that job. I can make a choice about which one I think is artier or better or a job that would help me more.’

It gave me the power of veto.”

Elaine has since produced long running detective series including Vera and Shetland.  

Peter told podcast Three People: “What an achievement. And now finally, she does a show that I'm in called Criminal Record, with Apple, which has just been commissioned for a second series. So she just made our life happen.”

“She made me seek and make more of myself and also made so much of herself and brought up our family and made our beautiful home and also produced these shows. I'm just in awe of her. It's the greatest.”

KAREN GILLAN SHOWS OFF BABY CLEMENTINE

SCOTS actress Karen Gillan has shown off pictures of her new baby girl for the first time as she revealed her daughter’s name is Clementine and talked about her pregnancy fatigue and C section.
Jumanji and Doctor Who actress Karen, 36, who married Nick Kocher in May 2022 at Castle Toward near Dunoon in Argyll, announced she was pregnant in September but had not disclosed the gender of her baby. 
She was seen on December 11 taking her newborn for a stroll as she wheeled a grey pushchair in Los Angeles in a figure hugging dress but until now had kept quiet about any further detail. 
Now Inverness born Karen, who moved to LA to work and live with her comedy writer and actor husband Nick, has told her fans online of her joy at becoming a mother. 
She also revealed she had given birth by C Section and explained that she sang a Shakira song to get over her fatigue and nausea while filming during her first Trimester. 
Karen showed off a picture of herself smiling as she cosied up to her daughter Clementine who she held close over her shoulder as she also describe husband Nick as “a hot dad” in another picture as he held his daughter in his hands. She wrote: “Hot Dad Alert.”
In another picture on her Instagram she gave a thumbs up as she lay on a hospital bed wearing her hospital issue paper  gown and hat and wrote: “C section fun timez.”
Karen, who is thought to have given birth at the end of November, also shared a video of her looking at a pregnant belly as she knelt on the floor and peered through legs and explained: “Filming 'Let's Have Kids' having just found out I was pregnant in real life and hiding first trimester fatigue and nausea by singing Shakira.”
Karen also showed off drinking mugs that she and Nick had been given saying “Best Mom Ever, Best Dad Ever.”
She also wrote: “2024 thank you for giving us Clementine. Also as per the last slide - I shot a film called 'Let's Have Kids' right as I got preggo in real life so take that Daniel Day Lewis.”

SCOTS DOCTOR WHO NCUTI GATWA MOVES INTO FIRST HOME

NEW Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa has just moved into his first home after securing the prestigious role of the famed time travelling doctor - and he couldn’t wait to tell his fans about his good news. 

Ncuti,  who has revealed in the past that he was once homeless, couldn’t wait to show off his new London pad which he started moving into in mid January. 

He fully moved in this week and in a now deleted Insta story he grinned widely at the camera as he showed off his surroundings. 

He also wrote: “Man a homeowner now.”

Scottish Sex Education star Ncuti who was born in Rwanda, previously revealed that before landing the role, he'd struggled with homelessness and depression. 

He told the Big Issue in 2020 of his past struggles to make ends meet.

 He wrote: "Being a 25-year-old man with no money or job affected my sense of self-worth. Rejection became unbearable. Auditions weren't just acting jobs, they were lifelines." 

One friend gave me money towards paying off the prior month's rent and offered to let me move into their spare room rent free for a while.

Great, I thought. An opportunity to get back on my feet and start paying people back. On moving-in day, he changed his mind. As I was standing on the street with my suitcases, one thought came into my head: 'I'm homeless.'"

"To the outside world everything seemed fine. I was temping at Harrods. 

"I'd wake up from the double bed I shared with my best friend, leave the house without a hair out of place in a slick-looking trench coat and polished brogues. I would get compliments for looking so presentable. When I lost weight due to eating only one meal a day, people told me how lean and healthy I looked.”

Following his move in during the weekend Ncuti couldn’t wait to thank his removal team for being so kind. 

He wrote: “Finally FULLY in my yard. Hit up Den Drops Ltd if you need to move. So helpful. So efficient. And great banter. What more do you want.”

Ncuti will take over from fourteenth Doctor David Tennant at the end of 2023.

From Scotland with Love theshowbizlion.com 

This article has since been published in the mail online. 

DOCTOR WHO AND OUTLANDER STARS CELEBRATE AT THE BAFTA SCOTLAND AWARDS

DOCTOR Who stars Ncuti Gatwa and Peter Capaldi joined  Saiorse Ronan, Jack Lowden,   Dougray Scott, Sam Heughan, and more at the BAFTA Scotland awards. 

The bash, was held at Glasgow’s Doubletree Hilton to celebrate the wealth of Scots talent in performance, production, and craft, in gaming,TV and film ad theshowbizlion.com took the opportunity to catch up with them. 
Former Doctor Who actor Peter Capaldi was delighted to welcome new Scots Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa as the latter entered the red carpet shirtless in his two tone lapelled suit but the two never stood side by side until they mingled properly at the after party. 

Ncuti was thrilled to be back in Scotland but remains as down to earth as ever despite his recent rise to fame through Sex Education and as the new Doctor. 

The actor, who thanked the audience for welcoming him since getting his big Doctor Who role, said of his forthcoming adventure: “It’s going to be a really fun ride.”

Peter Capaldi also picked up his award for Outstanding Contribution to Film and TV thanked Armando Ianucci , Bill Forsyth and more on his speech. 
He also joked that according to racial stereotypes his parents couldn’t be there cause ‘they are busy working in the chip shop’. He thanked them for his sarcasm and told Ncuti he was about to learn all about being Doctor Who - including spotting anoraks.

American Irish actress Saiorse Ronan made a separate entrance from her other half Jack Lowden and looked resplendent in her mustard strappy dress with pearl and tassel detail and strappy diamanté heels.  
Outlander’s  Sam Heughan, in a striking blazer and polo neck combo with dark trousers, got the loudest cheer of the night as he greeted fans of the epic Starz time travel series. 

The winner of the Audience Award who made a long acceptance speech pointing out all the work and money which Outlander has brought to Scotland, said: “It’s so nice isn’t it to be back here to celebrate Scottish film and TV and to see familiar faces as well which we haven’t been able to do with the pandemic. We may be a small country, a small affair but it’s a big celebration.”
Dougray Scott, who picked up the award for best actor TV for Irving Welsh’s Crime, said: “It was a long journey to get Crime to the screen. I sat with Irving Welsh 12 years ago. I’m a little bit nervous, but thank you so much. I really appreciate this. It means the world to me to get this award tonight. So thank you very much.”

Jack Lowden made a plea to those in the room to pledge money to help the film industry in Edinburgh following recent news of the demise of the Film House.

DOCTOR WHO DAVID TENNANT DISSED BY FORMER DOCTOR WHO PETER DAVIDSON AT EVENT

DOCTOR Who's David Tennant was dissed by former Doctor Who Peter Davison in front of his fans. 

Scots born David who recently filmed a new series of Good Omens in Edinburgh was at the Wales Comic Con. 

After hundreds of fans joined a queue for his official meet and greet, Peter Davidson decided to take to social media to tell him he was  'not that special'. 

The two men are actually related - with David's wife Georgia being Pete's daughter, so it was really all in jest. 

Georgia posted up a picture of Peter in Telford and he joined the queue. 

Peter said in his message: “Here I am protesting in front of the half mile queue for your husband” - #peterdavison #davidtennant #awkward @walescomiccon.

Peter wrote on a sign: "He's not THAT special

His confession brought more fans out in his favourite with one saying: : "Guarantee my daughter would be first in the queue to meet your dad again. Her love for him is boundless :)"

Another laughed: "So funny. Could Peter offer to help cut the queue time by taking the money for David - to be a good father in law - keep half himself and rubber stamp a David autograph for the tired end hot fans? Win Win!!"

KAREN GILLAN TO LEAD NEW YORK TARTAN WEEK PARADE

Karen Gillan will walk the streets of New York City as she becomes the second ever female Grand Marshall of the famous Tartan Day Parade. 

Former Doctor Who star Karen will walk the closed off streets of the Big Apple for the tartan themed event on April 9.

The Avengers, Guardians of The Galaxy and Jumanji star follows in the footsteps of KT Tunstall who led the parade in 2018 and other celebrated Scots including Sir Billy Connolly who took the honours at the last event held in 2019.

Outlander actors Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish, Trainspotting's Kevin McKidd, and kiltmaker Howie Nicholsby have also taken on the role in previous years.

The globally marketed event first started in 1999 – the year after the United States Senate agreed to designate a national Tartan Day each April.

More than 30,000 people take part in the event in Manhattan and previous years have seen dogs wearing kilts, mini Kelpies grace Union Square, scaled down Military Tattoos being held in the city and First Ministers participate in events like cutting the tape of the Tartan Week marathon round Central Park.

Inverness-born Karen, who this week told fans she is back at work after a New Year break, has gained a cult following for her role as Nebula in the Marvel superhero films and now lives in LA.

The Tartan Day Parade confirmed Karen's latest honour saying: "The National Tartan Day New York Committee is honoured to announce award-winning Scottish actress Karen Gillan as Grand Marshal of the New York City 2022 Tartan Day Parade."

The event is now in its 24th year, and a lively procession of pipes and drums bands, Highland dancers, Scottish clans, Shetlander Vikings and more are expected to perform on the day.

TORCHWOOD AND DOCTOR WHO STAR JOHN BARROWMAN RUSHED MUM TO HOSPITAL AFTER FALL

SCOTS actor John  Barrowman ended up having to go to hospital with his mum after she had a bad fall at home during isolation. 
The 53 year old Tochwood and Doctor Who actor from Mount Vernon now lives in Palm Springs with his actor husband Scott Gill.    
The two men ended up in accident and emergency after John’s mum Marion who also lives in Palm Springs at a £500,000 home gifted to her by John with her husband John senior had to be rushed there for treatment. 
John said of his mum who celebrated her 65th wedding anniversary two weeks ago: “My mother had a fall resulting in a fractured pelvis. We had to deal with it today so our social distancing went out the window but we wore masks and lots of sanitizer and alcohol spray. 


“We took her to the hospital. We got her x rayed and obviously we didn’t go in with her. My dad went in with her because only one person was allowed but the doctors who did her hip operation said she’s just going to need bed rest for a couple of weeks and then she is going to be able to get up again. She was in a lot of pain.
He added: “Mum is resting now and comfortable and my dad has put on his chef’s hat and his nurses outfit. It’s a sight to see but they are both doing well. We made sure of it.


He urged fans to send messages to her on his Instagram adding: “If you want to leave them a message go ahead and I will make sure they see it. It would really boost her spirits.”
After Trisha Goddard, Emily Attack and Keith Lemon sent their well wishes, John admitted: “I’m shattered.” And that he was going to have a really big cocktail.

KAREN GILLAN IN TALKS WITH STEVEN MOFFAT FOR NEW PROJECT

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KAREN Gillan is in talks about a new secret project with Doctor Who and Sherlock writer producer and showrunner Steven Moffat.
Scots born Steven, who appeared at Edinburgh TV Festival this week, is currently working on Dracula for Netflix and Time Travellers Wife for HBO and recently met with Karen at his home down south.
He said: “It’s always great to see her. I’ve seen Karen quite often since she left Doctor Who. It’s great. She came round to the local pub and caused a mild sensation as people started to realise a film star had arrived.  I’d forgotten that would happen. Mostly we talked about if we had seen Matt recently. There’s a thing we’re talking about doing. It’s so secret I’m calling it ‘There might be a thing.’ I’ve got a weeping angel in my garden and when folk come round they like to take selfies with it. I couldn’t resist getting a picture of it with Karen - and Matt and Peter have been round too.”
Karen is currently in Italy where she has been sunning herself aboard private yachts in between projects.
Karen just finished filming Gunpowder Milkshake which sees her play a female assassin with Lena Headley, Michelle Yeoh and Angela Bassett. 

DOCTOR WHO STAR KAREN GILLAN TALKS CHIPPIE SAUCE AND MORE ON SCOTS VISIT TO GLASGOW FILM FEST

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Karen Gillan might be invited to dine at all the black tie dos with A list celebs like Vin Diesel, Jack Black, Chris Pratt, and The Rock but the Jumanji and Dr Who Star says she misses chippy sauce the most when she’s away from home.
The Inverness born former model who is in Glasgow for the launch of her directorial debut feature The Party Is Just Beginning revealed she gets homesick for the simple things.
As she sparkled on the red carpet in a stunning silver number by New York designer Thom Browne,  Karen, 30, told theshowbizlion.com: “The thing I miss most about Scotland has to be the chippy sauce. That’s it, but also my family and all the people here and also the sense of humour cause I feel that we have a very specific sense of humour in the face of adversity which is something I incorporate into the film. I miss it a lot.”
Karen who rose to fame as Amy Pond in Doctor Who and plays Nebula in the Guardians of The Galaxy movies told of her nerves and pride at directing her first movie.
Appearing at the GFT for her world premiere at Glasgow Film Fest she said. “I’ve done two shorts before but this is first feature I’ve directed. Tonight it’s being seen for the first time so I’m feeling very vulnerable but it’s exciting. There’s something lovely about  being behind the  camera.”
She joked: “Directing myself meant I had the ultimate shorthand so there was not a lot of discussion with myself and I gave myself a lot of options so every take was different and I had lots to choose from in the edit.
Speaking of her outfit the former model said: “The dress is by Thom Browne and they have put lovely jewels on it for me and I love it it’s really pretty.
I”d always imagined we were going to do the film in my hometown but there was something so trippy about seeing all those familiar places on a big screen like the places I used to eat chips as a teenager it was really weird. I couldn’t feel more proud to be a female director at this time when the numbers are so low.”
Karen also says she likes the idea of moving into directing full time once her acting career is over - and she believes change is in the air for women in the industry.
She said: “I love acting and it’s what I do - I love directing and being behind the camera and watching amazing actors doing amazing things so I’m quite taken with the idea of doing it more later in life. I’ve been bitten by the bug of directing.”
She said: “I felt like it was the most natural thing in the world to write. When I first decided to write my story I wanted to tell it from my perspective as a young girl growing up in the Highlands of Scotland. The story is about a young girl dealing with the suicide of her best friend and she’s having a hard time communicating with people and communicating her grief. It comes out in a self destructive way. “I do believe change is in the air for women. I feel so happy and grateful as a woman that we are finally being heard and that women are coming forward telling stories and am so pleased that conversation is starting. We are at the beginning of change but there is a lot to do.
I’m so pleased to be a woman director and hopefully I can inspire people to do the same.
I’ve made a point of showing off the places in Inverness that I grew up in - the local chip shop where I used to shovel chips in my face is heavily featured and you might recognise some other spots.
Asked about suicide rates being high in Highlands she added: “I think I found an answer and I hope that’s in the film. One of the main topics is communication and if anyone has enduring heartache then the main thing is to communicate. Our lead character is unable to do that and if she just communicated her feelings would be different.”

DOCTOR WHO REVISITS GLASGOW UNIVERSITY FOR TIME TRAVEL COURSE

DOCTOR Who fans can now examine his time travel theories and experiences during a new Glasgow University course.
The short course entitled Dr Who and Philosophy: Time Travel And the Nature of Reality will see tutors examine if time travel is possible, and if it is, what it tells us about the nature of reality.
Students who attend on Monday June 5 or Saturday July 1 are promised a tour of philosophy's deep mystical questions using characters and episodes from the series during the course which will take place in June and July this year.
The uni which has previously offered a Game of Thrones Philosophy course as well as one inspired by The Simpsons says the £30 course is already proving a hit with Doctor Who fans who want to explore the possibilities of having a tardis of their own.
Tutor Dr John Donaldson said: "This is a course offered by a part of the University Centre for Open Studies to give people a taster of the courses we offer. They are open to the general public."
Following the success of our Simpson's Introduction to Philosophy we looked at other figures in popular culture and Doctor Who has quite an obvious connection with Philosophy and Metaphysical questions of Time Travel.
There will be twenty five students in the class from 10am until 4pm and I'm still working on what clips from the show we will use, but there are two main issues in the philosophy of time; first the nature of time and what time is and the second issue is of time travel itself.
The nature of time brings up some big metaphysical and philosophical issues and there are different views we will examine from the Block Universe View which says the universe is an unchanging four dimensional block where time exists equally in the past present and future.
We will also look at the Growing Block view where only Past and Present exist, not the Future and and thirdly we will examine Presentism where the Past and the Future don't exist.
It is most obvious how time travel can occur if the Block Universe View is used but there are theories about the other models too, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.
"With regards to Doctor Who and his Tardis, travel into the future is in theory easier than into the past. Relativity theory says the faster you travel as a proportion of the speed of light the slower time goes for you relative to someone else, so time for them will go much faster than it will for you.
"Even today we can build a spaceship to travel ten to twenty percent to the speed of light and even when we got on a plane and off a plane we become a few milliseconds younger than when we got on.
Travelling into the past however, like the Doctor also does, is a lot harder because to travel into the past, if you accept what physics says, you need to build a wormhole and use it to travel back to the time when you first built it."
Dr Johnson is planning to illustrate his course with some episodes which see the Doctor Who travelling back and forth in his tardis.
For example, in one story called Father's Day the Doctor and his companion Rose travelled back into the past to save Rose's father from dying but the result was a paradox in which monsters known as Reapers destroyed almost all life on Earth until the time stream was set back on track.
Dr John Donaldson explained: " To the question, 'Can I visit myself?' You build a wormhole and wait while you travel back to meet yourself just after you built it. We run into serious issues with the grandfather paradox though because if time travel into the past is possible then it's possible to travel back into the past to kill your grandfather before your grandfather meets your grandmother, or even directly kill yourself. It means you'd never come into existence."
"Doctor Who approaches time travel differently from Back To The Future and we will examine the complex debates surrounding his method. We won't be looking so much at the technology but more about the issues surrounding it.
Dr Donaldson is unsure at the moment if the actual Doctor Who who is said to have studied at the university, will use his tardis to attend his particular course, but he laughed: "If anyone wants to wear a long scarf I'd be more than happy to have some Doctor Who's in thr audience. We all time travel to a point when we fly on a plane but I haven't had the opportunity to go inside a time machine. I would be severely tempted if I had the opportunity. I'm not sure if our physics department are working on that.


- Posted with love from Scotland by theShowbizLion.com

DOCTOR WHO STAR KAREN GILLAN GETS DRUNK IN MARYHILL

GUARDIANS Of The Galaxy and Doctor Who star Karen Gillan was drunk and disorderly as she stumbled out of a Scots nightclub.


Luckily the Inverness born star who has just finished on her movie Jumanji was putting on an act for her own new film Tupperware Party which also sees her step behind the camera for her big directorial debut.


Karen, who played Amy Pond in Doctor Who, and a posse of young actors spent all day filming inside Framptons nightclub in the heart of Glasgow's Maryhill district.
The clubbing scenes culminated in the star drunkenly kissing a bouncer of the club on the cheek before being carried out the nightspot by friends as she stumbled over them, arms and legs flailing.


As cars passed the scene on the side street, it could have seemed like any other big night out in the area.
In between shots, effervescent red head Karen looked every bit the director as she carried around a clipboard with her and instructed her cast and crew on what was happening next.
The mood on set seemed jovial although Karen was deep in concentration as she set up her next shots.


She even changed jackets in between directing and acting, as if to change her persona.
Karen said: "It's lovely to be back in Scotland and it's all going well so far. I'm having a great time."
An insider said: "Karen is brilliant to work with and really understands the actors needs. She has been nervous about going behind the camera for this film and there is a lot of pressure on her but she is just getting with things and the film is shaping up nicely."

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DOCTOR WHO STAR KAREN GILLAN HITS GLASGOW AND INVERNESS FOR DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

GUARDIANS of The Galaxy star Karen Gillan has arrived in Glasgow to begin filming her directorial debut movie Tupperware Party.
The Inverness born Doctor Who actress who played Amy Pond in the sci fi series has written the script of the feature film for Mt Hollywood films.
Karen, who is keeping the storyline a tightly guarded secret, spent Christmas and New Year up with family and friends up north before arriving in Glasgow this week.

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In demand Karen admitted she'd been tweaking the film's script right up until the eleventh hour, telling fans online: "Racing to finish a rewrite before the new year! I got thiiiiiissssss."
The star who is understandably nervous about her first big directorial offering told her Instagram followers: "Sad to be leaving Inverness and my fellow fingers. But we have a film to make. Here we go 2017!"


She was spotted today in Glasgow's Buchanan Street by some fans as she prepped for her filming schedule.
Budding actor Christopher Potter who was amongst those who saw her posted up a selfie of them both and said: "That brilliant moment when you bump into @karengillan, tell her you're a big fan and get a picture with her! Such a nice person!"
Karen has a penchant for darker movies so it's expected Tupperware Party will gave more of a twist to it than the average plastic storage lid.


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