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To promote the new release, Third Doctor actor Tim Treloar and Elisabeth Sladen’s daughter Sadie Miller, who now plays Sarah Jane Smith, chatted about recreating the era.

Do you feel that you’re playing the part, or you’re playing the original actor, playing the part?

Sadie: I think it’s got to be both, a bit, hasn’t it? Because you’re taking the character but you’re doing it through the mask of the person that was playing it originally. So you have to step into them, in order to embody the character. I guess it would be like if you were doing a biopic or something, you have to honour how they interpreted it. Especially because it’s just audio.  I think if it was something on screen, you’d have a little bit more latitude. I don’t know.

Tim: You can’t just do an impression, you know? With an impression, you lose the heart of it, the acting. Jon Culshaw is a fantastic actor. He’s probably our greatest impressionist but he’s also a fantastic actor, so he’s able to bring out a character within, whereas a pure impression, there would be no enrichment, really.

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