10 Doctor Who Scenes Actors Hated Shooting

“It’s just a matter of emphasis,” the Editor tells the Ninth Doctor and Rose in The Long Game. “The right word in the right broadcast, repeated often enough, can destabilise an economy, invent an enemy, change a vote."

Or, it can cause an actor to struggle with their lines.

That was the case for actor Simon Pegg, who had real problems with a particular phrase. And you can probably guess what it was. Deep breaths now: "the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe".

Good lord, no wonder he had trouble.

Pegg only had to speak the name of his character’s boss once – but, as shown on Doctor Who Confidential, even this required multiple takes.

“I was getting really tense” he recalled. “I could feel everyone going, ‘Come on Simon, come on, you can do it, you can do it this time!’”.

In the end, of course, he did manage to spit it out in full, receiving a rapturous round of applause from the cast and crew – but only after lots of fumbled attempts.