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'Doctor Who' star Karen Gillan set for Season 7: 'I am going to come back!'
There's a lot more Amy Pond to come.
When Zap2it met up with "Doctor Who" star Karen Gillan on the show's Comic-Con red carpet, one of the first things on our mind was if the recent Season 7 pick-up of 14 episodes would include her character.
"I am going to come back, yes," Gillan tells us. "That's the first time I've said that today!"
Up until now, only Doctor Matt Smith had been confirmed to reprise the titular role, and speculation that Gillan would be making way for another companion was further fueled last week when she was cast in the upcoming West End revival of the John Osborne play "Inadmissible Evidence."
But the role is clearly something she's holding onto -- especially after her first trip to Comic-Con.
"It's crazy," she says. "It's amazing. I can't believe the scale of it. People told us about it... I knew it was going to be a pretty big, but it's a whole town."
And that town is filled with a lot of "Who"-loving doppelgangers.
"The other day me and Matt ran into the Doctor and Amy," she says. "It's a really surreal experience. It's so exciting!"
Head back shortly for more of our video interview with Gillan, with news on her new relationship with recently-revealed daughter River Song (Alex Kingston) and tidbits from the "Doctor Who" panel...
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crap.
She is the best thing about Dr Who.
Fantastic news! She joins a select few companions including Katy Manning, Frazer Hines and Elisabeth Sladen to stay beyond 2 seasons. The mystery remains as to what might happen to Arthur Darvill's character, but Matt and Karen have the best chemistry I've seen in a TARDIS team since Tom Baker and Lis Sladen, so the longer they stay together, the better.
Booooooo her and Matt Smith should just go away.
This is fantastic news - really glad she's staying and we get them both confirmed for next year. Interesting to see if we get more Rory too.
YAY!! She is fantastic as the companion. I am so glad about this news whoo!! :D There could alot more stories written based on them :D
*Crawls into corner and cries* I can't put up with more of Amy Mary-Sue Pond anymore
Fantastic news! She quickly became my favourite companion, and with all the rumours flying around that she would be leaving it disheartened me. Really pleased she will be staying :)
Love her i'm glad she is staying
@Me - No, it's people like you who need to go away. If you don't like Matt and Karen, then kindly crawl back under the rock from which you came and let the rest of us enjoy it.