Its more fun being Doctor Who than me Peter Capaldi reveals how Doctor Who changed his life

I think he s actually quite sympathetic, apart from the fact that he s a serial killer, Peter Capaldi muses. Subscribe to our channel here: The Scottish actor, who made his name with roles ranging from Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It to the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who, is pondering his latest character, Gideon Shepherd, in The Devil s Hour season 2. Season 1 saw Gideon, a man who is reborn every time he dies and who has devoted his life to prevent terrible tragedies from happening, locked in a cell. But at the end of the season, he escapes and, this time around, he s unleashed onto the world as he and Jessica Raine s Lucy Chambers form an uneasy alliance to attempt to stop a devastating incident. I think I do empathise with him, Capaldi tells in an exclusive interview. What s driving him is a desire to keep people, ironically, safe and he s trapped. , RadioTimes, pet