#Lauren cooper

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Highlights from Catherine Tate's Q&A Panel at Armageddon Expo 2024 (NZ) :

[I took notes best I could during the panel but some may be paraphrased]

Q: What's your favourite Doctor Who alien?

CT: The wonderful Ood!

Q: Who's your favourite Doctor? (Crowd gasps in anticipation)

CT: Well, I get asked this a lot, and obviously it's David (Tennant). I don't know what number he is, he keeps coming back. But definitely, David. Although, someone recently pointed out that I was technically the first ever female Doctor. So you know what? Me, I'm my favourite Doctor.

Q: What's your favourite episode you were in of Doctor Who?

CT:The Runaway Bride, because that's where it all began.

Q: What's a favourite memory of working with David Tennant on Doctor Who?

CT: The scene in 'Partners in Crime', the one with the Adipose, there's the scene where Donna and the Doctor see each other from across a room. But they're both behind glass and they have the whole mime scene with the windows. Well, I remember it was about 3am when we were filming that - - Russel really likes to film at night if the story is taking place at night - so it was 3am, and I said to the director 'Uh, right here it just says Donna Mimes' and he said 'Yeah do whatever'.

So that whole scene was ad-lib during shooting and David and I were so in sync with it, we did that first take and the director said cut and print!

Q: How emotional were you filming your final scene in Journey's End?

CT: So, we didn't always film in order. And I'm not really a sentimental person, but I will say I thought Donna's ending was absolutely perfect. When she meets the Doctor she was always yelling at the world, and she was so different than what she was by the end, she had so much growth with the Doctor and she changed so much in her time with him, but then, she forgets the him and all those memories. And that final scene, what really got me was how he says 'Donna, I'm off' and she's just, I think she's on the phone, and she just waves dismissively. She doesn't know him anymore. Russell, the way he ties things together, he's brilliant, that man.

Q: What was it like working with Bernard (Cribbins)?

CT: Oh, Bernard. God, I love him. He was so funny and talented. He always had stories and voices and sound effects. He loved making people laugh. But we had a gag where every single time I called him I'd say (Donna Voice) 'GRANDAD!'

He'd say, "Who is this?"

"It's Catherine."

"Catherine who?"

"Catherine Tate"

"Never heard of her."

We did this every time I called him and I loved it.

Q: Is there anything annoying about working with David Tennant?

CT: No, absolutely not. He's perfect. He's the best person to work with. I will say though, I was annoying him a lot. When we did the 60th Anniversary specials, our trailers looked exactly the same and I never knew where my trailer was. I'd walk into his all the time!

Sometimes I'd walk in and see his shoes in the trailer and instead of thinking 'Oops, wrong trailer', my brain went 'What's he gone and left his shoes in my trailer for?'

It got so bad, sometimes I'd walk up the stairs and from inside I'd hear 'NO.'

Q: Was it weird coming back to play Donna after all these years? Especially when it was along side David Tennant?

CT: It was a bit weird, more in the 'Oh I hope i still know how to do this' way than anything. But I did think it would be hilarious if David and I arrived on set and every take we just did completely wrong voices. Just thought it'd be hilarious for him to go (in an airy upper-crust British accent) 'Ohhhh, hellloooo. I'm the Doctor'

Q: If you could take any prop from set, what would you take?

CT: Ohhhh, I'd have very large pockets and see what I could fit. But mostly I think it'd be a sonic screwdriver. It's gotta be a sonic screwdriver, doesn't it? It's small and mobile... Easy to steal. Plus, it'd fetch a great price on Ebay!

Q: Best show you've ever worked on?

CT: The Office, they paid me tons of money.

Q: My mum loves David Tennant, is there something you can say to dissuade her?

CT: Hm, something to convince her he's not.... Oh, he doesn't believe in astrology! I'll say 'It's Mercury Retrograde' and he'll say 'NO, NO, NO I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT'.

Other Highlights:

As soon as she came out, she saw the stage had no steps to the audience, so she stayed on mic and went the long way round to go into the audience and interview people, trying to find who had traveled the furthest to be here. She was sorely disappointed everyone was just from Aotearoa 🤣

Donna Lines She Performed:

"Oi Spaceman! You're not mating with me sunshine!" (Crowd went wild for that)

"Binary. Binary. Binary." (🥺)

She did some of her characters: Lauren Cooper mostly, but also wished someone Happy birthday as Nan

[evansisasadist]

Marauders tweets part two

part one linked here:

https://evansisasadist.tumblr.com/post/729311642339475456/marauders-tweets-part-one

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but is she even bothered though

[ghost-bison]

Happy Birthday my Queen. An incredibly talented actress, a really funny person, beautiful in as out, surprising, ginger, eyes the colours of the Earth, and a Sagittarius just like me so it seems hehe

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what do you mean this isn't how that scene went

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Intersex Characters

I dont know, I just wanted to make a little post about intersex characters from TV lol

So from left to right we Lauren Cooper from Faking It, her show ended even before GLAAD (an LGBTQIA organization) started counted asexual and non-binary characters in their reports, so they never have counted intersex characters so far.

Then we have Stevonnie from Steven Universe, GLAAD never counted them either because Cartoon Network wasn't on the list of cable channels being counted during the airing of the show.

Finally we have Ryan from The Power (a show from Amazon Prime) he wasn't counted in last year report for unknown reasons and he is very much unknown in general, hopefully if the show is renewed he will be counted next year as the first intersex character being included in a GLAAD report and more people will get to know about him.

Also hopefully there will be more intersex characters in mainstream TV because just between Lauren and Ryan there was a seven year gap with no new explicitly intersex characters and the I is still the letter with the least representation in the acronym.

[thescholarlystrumpet]

do you ever get the feeling that David Tennant was born to play a slutty English professor?

(I think David Tennant was born to play a Slut and we are Blessed for it.)

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Day 6: Lauren Cooper

Day 6: Intersex 💛🟣

(Day 7 of posting everyday)

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Catherine Tate

Armageddon Expo 2024, New Zealand

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Faking It (2014-2016)

Episode length: 22 min.

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy

Language: English

A romantic comedy about two best friends who love each other - in slightly different ways. After numerous failed attempts to become popular, the girls are mistakenly outed as lesbians, which launches them to instant celebrity status. Seduced by their newfound fame, Karma and Amy decide to keep up their romantic ruse.

Season 1

Episode 1: Pilot

Episode 2: Homecoming Out

Episode 3: We Shall Overcompensate

Episode 4: Know Thy Selfie

Episode 5: Remember the Croquembouche

Episode 6: Three to Tango

Episode 7: Faking Up Is Hard to Do

Episode 8: Burnt Toast

Season 2

Part 1

Episode 1: The Morning Aftermath

Episode 2: You Can't Handle the Truth or Dare

Episode 3: Lust in Translation

Episode 4: Lying Kings and Drama Queens

Episode 5: Present Tense

Episode 6: The Ecstasy and the Agony

Episode 7: Date Expectations

Episode 8: Zen and the Art of Pageantry

Episode 9: Karmic Retribution

Episode 10: Busted

Part 2

Episode 11: Stripped

Episode 12: The Revengers: Age of the Monocle

Episode 13: Future Tense

Episode 14: Saturday Fight Live

Episode 15: Boiling Point

Episode 16: Faking It... Again

Episode 17: Prom Scare

Episode 18: Nuclear Prom

Episode 19: The Deep End

Episode 20: School's Out

Season 3

Episode 1: It's All Good

Episode 2: Let's Hear It for the Oy

Episode 3: Karmygeddon

Episode 4: Jagged Little Heart

Episode 5: Third Wheels

Episode 6: Spooking It

Episode 7: Game On

Episode 8: Untitled

Episode 9: Ex-Posed

Episode 10: Up in Flames

Watch or rent on AppleTV

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ATYD Remus Lupin talks like Lauren Cooper. Pass it on.

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At some point, I'm going to really impress someone by reciting a sonnet with no preparation, but we all know I'll ruin it by yelling BITE ME ALIEN BOY at the end

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