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Sigourney Weaver asked for Doc Martin role

Sigourney Weaver had watched every episode of Doc Martin before asking for a guest role. Minor Spoilers.

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Minor Spoilers: Sigourney Weaver’s guest appearance in Doc Martin airs today in the UK.

Martin, who plays Dr. Martin Ellingham in the show, appeared on Jonathan Ross’ UK talk show again telling the host he met Weaver when both were guests on his show.

“I came on here to plug Arthur and George and Sigourney Weaver was here who I’d never met,” recalled Clunes. “She said ‘Oh I’ve watched every episode of Doc Martin…’

“It turns out, she is best friends with Selina Cadell – they were students together – who plays Mrs Tishell, our chemist and so that’s why she’d been watching,” said Clunes.

Weaver requested a role in the show, filmed in Cornwall.

“We wrote a part for an American tourist and thought let’s wait and see if she likes it… and everything fell into place and over she came with her husband, Jim, and she was brilliant, she was really nice, the crew were so excited, so excited, I fell off my chair twice!”

Selina Cadell told TV Times, “She plays a brash American tourist who walks into Mrs Tishell’s tiny chemist, imagining she’s going to get some kind of big welcome because she says she has Cornish roots, but Mrs Tishell isn’t having any of it.”

The new series will air on ABC later this year.

Source: Tellyspotting

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