Doctor Who's Arthur Darvill "absolutely wouldn't say no" to returning

Amy and Rory exited the show in heartbreaking circumstances, falling victim to the Weeping Angels, but it didn't rule out a return for the pair of them.

Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com, Darvill explained: "The way I feel about it is, yes I would [return], but it would have to be the right thing and I think enough time would have to have passed.

"We used to get asked about it straight away, like we’d just left and gone on to other things, so the stock answer then was, 'Well, no. No, I’ve been doing it for three years!'

"But now I absolutely wouldn’t say no to it. My fear with it before was I think the storyline we had was so perfect and so rounded that I just wouldn’t want anything to take away from that.

"Now we’re a bit older, I think at some point, even if it’s just a one-off, it’d be really interesting to do something more with it. Never say never!

"I think at the time we were all worried we’d be stuck in it forever, like it would be the only thing we’d ever done, which obviously since then it hasn’t been – we’ve all kind of gone on and done loads of other things. And so that has a slightly different meaning going back now.

"It would be a lovely thing. But also, if that never happens, that’s fine as well. I’m really, really proud of the story we told and the way it was told."

Darvill, Gillan and Smith had an incredible friendship on the show, with the three of them still keeping in close contact.

"Myself and Matt knew each other beforehand, so already it was like going to work with friends, and we were just all together for such a long time.

"And, for me anyway, because it was so early in my career and I felt like I was learning on the job, it was just really formative," he said.

"We were so busy and no one else could really understand the experience we were having, and that was really bonding for all of us.

"We've all just remained such close friends from it, which is an amazing thing. We still all go on holiday together and see each other and do things together, and I really love that."

Darvill added: "I felt sorry for some of the guest people coming on, sometimes, because we were all so close and had this - we were just in all the time, so we had this kind of shared language with each other, which I think, for an outsider, I don't know if it was intimidating, it might have been annoying.

"We were just very loud and very boisterous and felt a real responsibility to keep the energy up with everyone. And we were very nice to everyone who came in, but I think they must have thought, 'God, what's going on with these people? They're really hyperactive.'

"But that was part of our coping mechanism to get through it! But also the nature of the show was that it was so fun and the relationship between the three of us was so specific that I think we had to build that relationship outside of it for it to be authentic on screen."

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