Doctor Who: 11 Cool Details We Just Learned About Vincent And The Doctor

9. Matt Smith And Tony Curran Wrestled Each Other While In Character

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Based on their strong on-screen chemistry - as well as the admiration for one another they displayed during the watch-along - Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Tony Curran clearly had a lot of fun while shooting the episode, with Gillan even tweeting that the cast bonded over their mutual love of beers and pizza. So British.

But they did more than just eat and drink together. Something that the actress also revealed was that Smith and Curran once had a full-on wrestling match inside the hotel they were all staying in.

And the best bit? They were both in character.

In a separate tweet, Smith also mentioned a wrestling match, while adding that Gillan actually filmed the whole thing. This means that Karen Gillan is the exclusive owner of a Vincent van Gogh vs. Eleventh Doctor wrestling video, and we demand she release it to the public.

Even better, imagine if getting characters to wrestle was some sort of strange Doctor Who tradition. The Tenth Doctor vs. The Abzorbaloff? Twelve vs. Santa Claus? Nine vs. Charles Dickens? Think of the possibilities!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.