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AE: [laughs] Yeah. Well, so I wanted to ask about Torchwood, because that's going to be post-watershed, isn't it...
JB: That is, that's going to be after nine, yeah.

AE: Yeah. So you said you were going to a read-through tonight--
JB: I can't, I can't tell you anything about the show in itself, except the fact that it's a team of five people including Jack, and we have a place called the Hub, which is near the Opera House in Cardiff [in Wales, in the UK]. It's underground, this fictitious place. We are an organization that fights alien crime, and tries to figure out alien happenings on earth. A lot of the things that have happened with Doctor Who [in the second series, currently showing on UK television], the Torchwood team have been responsible for fixing or annihilating after the Doctor does his bit.

And the Doctor is saying, at the moment, like “Who the hell are these Torchwood people?” because our paths haven't crossed again, and I am frantically trying to find him.

AE: To find the Doctor.
JB: I'm trying to find the Doctor. Because there is something that the viewing public won't know yet, there's something about Jack that nobody knows. And he needs the Doctor.

AE: Right. And that's what will be revealed.
JB: [makes creepy whoo-ooh sounds]

AE: [laughs] It's a great cast that's being put together to play the Torchwood team. I read that they just cast Burn Gorman who was in Bleak House [an acclaimed Dickens adaptation shown January-February 2006 on PBS], who I thought was fantastic in that.
JB: That's right. I was just with him this afternoon, he's been having his make-up testing done.

AE: He's got such an amazing face, hasn't he? I don't know if it was just as Mr. Guppy [in Bleak House]--
JB: He's got a great face. It's so angular on camera, it looks really great. But yeah, it should be fun, it's a really good cast. Eve Myles, who's playing Gwen [Cooper, the lead female character], is just great. She and I have a great laugh together. And that's one of the most important things for me on a set: you must have fun. You must have fun, and that's what we're gonna have.

AE: Yeah. Because I think that carries over to the show. You can really see, with certain actors, when they have a real friendship -
JB: Absolutely.

AE: They have that relationship, you know.
JB: Oh yeah, well hopefully we'll have it [laughs].

AE: [laughs] So, I know that you can't say very much... Is there anything you can say at all, about what's going to happen in terms of Captain Jack's love life? I mean will he--
JB: Nope, nope.

AE: You can't say anything?
JB: I'm sorry.

AE: Oh, but I wanted to know!
JB: I cannot... I'm sorry, I cannot, I promise you, I cannot say a word, it's more than my job is worth. Because we have contractually signed a secrecy clause, and we are not allowed to discuss any of the [things that will happen in the series] prior to us being released to discuss them.

AE: So I'm just gonna have to watch.
JB: That's how top secret this project is. But--can I just say this?

AE: Please do.
JB: Some f***ing great stuff is gonna happen [laughs].

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