Goran Visnjic has said that it was a challenge sporting Nikola Tesla’s famous moustache in Doctor Who.
The Croatian-American actor, best known as Luka Kovac in the medical TV drama ER, said the inventor’s facial hair had been “so uncomfortable”.
Visnjic, 47, joins forces with Jodie Whittaker’s Time Lord in tonight’s episode of the BBC programme.
Asked what it was like playing the late genius, he said: “Well I would definitely skip a moustache if it was a fictional character – those things are so uncomfortable.
“There’s a very well-known photograph of Nikola Tesla, he always had his moustache and there are known things about him, what he liked and didn’t like, so I kind of incorporated some of those things into the character.
“It’s a double-edged sword, a blessing, as you know things about your character already because they’re given to you, but the other side is that you have to do certain things with your character that are established.
“In truth, I can’t even consider Tesla as a historical character from the books because I feel like I grew up with him.
He added: “I knew who he was since I was a kid, so in some ways it was like playing someone you know.”
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