Doctor Who: 12 Cool Details Russell T Davies Just Revealed About New Earth & Gridlock

2. The Face Of Boe Prop Used In Gridlock Was A Completely New Build

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The Face of Boe's death scene required the character to do a lot of talking, as well as a lot of emoting - certainly much more than in his previous appearances.

However - according to Davies - the Face of Boe prop that the Doctor Who team had worked with previously was just "a sheet of rubber", which would've been impossible to work with in Gridlock, because Boe needed to be out of his glass casing.

And so, this version of Boe was a brand-new build, constructed in such a way that the production team was able to give the character an emotional send-off.

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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!