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

Doctor Who Vincent and the Doctor Matt Smith Tony Curran Karen Gillan
BBC/Twitter: @karengillan/Twitter: @LockdownWho

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!

In this post: 
Doctor Who
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!