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5. Lanzarote Is No Holiday For Hermione Norris
The volcanic rock formations of Lanzarote provided a striking backdrop to Series 8's Kill the Moon. But not everyone was over the moon to be there.
Temperatures stuck at around 40 degrees for the duration of the shoot, and to make matters worse, the episode’s lunar setting dictated that the actors wear some form of spacesuit.
Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, and Ellis George got off fairly lightly, wearing loose, fabric suits of the type first seen in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit. But the other characters were actual, proper astronauts, and needed bulkier costumes to match.
This resulted in much discomfort, and even panic attacks, for Lundvik actor Hermione Norris, as she recalled to The Mirror:
“It was one of the hardest jobs I've ever done. It was incredibly heavy, you couldn't get the visor on or off by yourself, and I couldn't help but panic when it was down. The sun on your visor was like having your head stuffed in a greenhouse.”
Shooting on the real-life Moon wouldn’t have been much easier. But by the sound of it, Lanzarote came pretty close!