You play everything through yourself. You feel very different, your skin feels very different and therefore, yeah, I think any piece of costume enhances performance or helps actors sort of like transcend their current reality. Anjli Mohindra (AM): It’s a real dream come true! Den of Geek We see him and his ground-breaking inventions from time to time as the other two men race to supply the energy for the Chicago World’s Fair in Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s zippy period drama about the early days of electricity. The transportation/duplication machine though is not among his many achievements. Jodie Whittaker's second Doctor Who series casts Robert Glenister and Goran Višnjić as scientists Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla It says so right there. Tesla builds the device, but instead of transporting an object or person, it duplicates them, as demonstrated with the presentation of a great many top hats. As the story of the rivalry between Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), Tesla (Nicholas Hoult) is really only a side player in The Current War. Historically accurate? From cartoons to web series to feature films to epic rap battles to Doctor Who, here’s where Nikola Tesla has popped up on TV and film… It was a really good experience. How was it working on a show like Doctor Who with lots of special effects, aliens and prosthetics? I was totally thrilled when the call came. That’s a no, though the patent rivalry thing I suppose… no, it’s still no. Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Cirque du Soleil, DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, Doctor Who s12 and 'lost' reanimated DVDs on sale, Doctor Who star disappointed by family discovery, Doctor Who spin-off enlists two popular Doctors, Doctor Who's Daleks gets trailer and release date, Doctor Who star promises "unbelievable" season 13, Doctor Who s13 to reveal more of Yaz's backstory, Doctor Who star teases festive special mystery, Doctor Who unveils first look at festive special, Doctor Who star joins Call the Midwife special. I think an entire day had passed before he said: “You’re going to have to show me a picture of what you look like because I'll probably pass you in the street at some point and have no idea”. He's so precise and he's so subtle, and he's such a brilliant actor.". He’s good with a quip too. Being live cast. Logos © 1996. ‘Me, a lunatic? I was asked politely to retire.’. GV: We actually had a lot of physical props but we did have some stuff that we needed to imagine. ‘Unite the clocks. Played by Jonathan Young in the 2008 – 2011 Canadian sci-fi, this time the engineering genius is an immortal part-vampire (one of his ancestors was a vamp, so a gene thing happened) with the powers of electrical and magnetic manipulation. So yeah, getting to work with him again was brilliant and he didn’t actually recognise me as I was under 3 hours of prosthetics (laughs). But the team that work on the prosthetics and create everything were just so brilliant to work with and so lovely and fun and just made the experience exciting. Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror is coming this Sunday 19th January at 7:10pm on BBC One, or on BBC America at 8pm ET, 7pm CT. We spent time inside the TARDIS too which was great. Goran Visnjic as Nikola Tesla 47-year-old Goran has plenty of experience around doctors after playing hunk Luka Kovac in hospital drama ER. Historically accurate? Unite the toasters. Tesla and the Doctor bond over being isolated, timeless geniuses far from home who prioritise ideas over money, and then they fight some aliens. How does it feel to be part of Doctor Who? .cls-2{mix-blend-mode:screen}.cls-3{fill:none;stroke:red;stroke-miterlimit:10;stroke-width:4px}.cls-4{fill:red}, From cartoons to web series to feature films to epic rap battles to Doctor Who, here’s where Nikola Tesla has popped up on TV and film…. The scorpions from outer space, not so much. Between moans and retches, Trussell describes Thomas Edison as played by Crispin Glover as “like, the king of electricity” but also “like, an asshole,” who spent his time electrocuting cows and scaremongering while Tesla (played by John C. Reilly) “discovered the energy to run the World’s Fair” and then “fell in love with this specific pigeon and knew that he would never invent anything worthy of a pigeon.” A startling insight. "People say he's the man who invented the 20th century. There’s a framed picture of a pigeon above Tesla’s bed, so a tick in that column. DuckTales Season 3 Episode 11 Review: The Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades! I think that makeup definitely helps with your character transformation. So yeah, getting to work with him again was brilliant and he didn’t actually recognise me as I was under 3 hours of prosthetics Historically accurate? ‘So confess/ to your thefts / and let the whole world know / what the Serbian did for the wizard of Menlo.’. Nikola Tesla: Robert Glenister ... Thomas Edison: Anjli Mohindra ... Queen Skithra: Haley McGee ... Dorothy Skeritt: Paul Kasey ... Harold Green Robin Guiver ... Bill Tallow Erick Hayden ... Mr. Sorensson How did this role differ from others you’ve had in the past? It was a very nice gang to work with. Historically accurate? Do you have a particular highlight of filming/favourite memory? In episode two of Brett Jubinville’s adult animated series about a gang of historical science geniuses, a cartoon Tesla attempts to defeat Thomas Edison, reimagined here as a nefarious energy-stealing bank robber flanked by leotard-wearing goons. In the film, Jackman’s character visits Tesla in his Colorado laboratory to commission the building of an electrical transportation machine for use in his act. In ER, I played the same doctor for years, you really know the character and you become the character. Read more about Doctor Who series 12 here. In part one of the series finale, he mentions a white dove in New York in 1943 (the year of real-life Tesla’s death, and in the series around the time he was helping the Allied forces win WWII) with great fondness. It also plays on Tesla’s much-repeated quote about having fallen in love with a beautiful pigeon whom he loves “as a man loves a woman.”. 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