New girl on the tardis: Jenna-Louise Coleman pictured filming her first scenes as Doctor Who's new assistant
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The former Emmerdale star, 26, was spotted filming her first scenes in the sci-fi show with co-star Matt Smith in Port Talbot, Wales yesterday.
Wearing a wax jacket and blue summer dress, the star was spotted following Matt on a gloomy and rainy day in Margam Country Park.
New girl on the Tardis: Former Emmerdale star Jenna-Louise Coleman films scenes for Doctor Who in Port Talbot yesterday
In between scenes, she donned a warm quilted jacket and waterproof headscarf as she chatted to co-star Matt.
Also spotted on location was Scottish actor Dougray Scott, prompting speculation he is making a cameo in the new series.
Little is known about the character, although this week it was rumoured she will be called Clara.
Coleman comes to the role as a replacement for Scottish actress Karen Gillan, who played Amy Pond.
That's not a good look: Hopefully Coleman's coat and headscarf was just to protect her costume, rather than one of her costumes
Last week, the official Doctor Who Twitter page said her first script run-through had gone well.
The tweet read: 'History has been made! A new era begins! Jenna-Louise Coleman has just completed her first #DoctorWho read-through. One word. Brilliant!'
When she was unveiled as the new assistant in March, she admitted the audition process had been strange.
And she said her audition was like no other she had even been to, adding: 'Normally you’re just reading in front of a camera, but with this, it was so physical. We were using props and running around so it felt like playing - and like a partnership straightaway.
Bonding: in between scenes, Jenna and Matt Smith kept warm in quilted coats as they went through their scenes
'I have an idea of the story, of the character and of a few surprises, but I don’t know her name or where she’s from. I just told Steven [Moffat] and [producer] Caroline Skinner, "Don’t tell me anything until I need to know it".'
Coleman, who is best known for best known for playing Emmerdale’s Jasmine Thomas and Waterloo Road’s Lindsay James, recently played a maid Annie Desmond in ITV's Titanic serial.
She admitted she was relieved she didn't have to keep it secret any more.
Cameo? Scottish actor Dougray Scott was also spotted on locaton
She said: 'When you keep a secret this big – I’ve kept this one for six weeks – the temptation to tell is all the more irresistible, especially as I live with three schoolfriends.
'With girl politics the way they are, I couldn’t tell just one friend. I had to phone one of them on the way to the press conference to tell her that I’d borrowed her shoes, in case she saw them in photos.'
And she is also delighted that she is no longer out of work because after starring in Emmerdale and Waterloo Road she was rejected by Rada and didn’t work for a year believing she'd been labelled a 'soap actress'.
'It’s very easy for people to put you in a box, and I’ve been fighting very hard against that.'
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