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"Former Doctor Who star Karen Gillan has praised the casting of Peter Capaldi as the 12th Doctor. The actress - who played Amy Pond between 2010 and 2012 - said that the Scottish actor will take the show in a &amp;quot;cool direction&amp;quot;.   However, she admitted that former co-star Matt Smith will &amp;quot;always&amp;quot; be the Doctor in her eyes. She told PA: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s weird that he&amp;#039;s leaving, because to me he is the Doctor and he always will be. But I&amp;#039;m biased, I guess! &amp;quot;I think Peter Capaldi is an amazing choice and a really cool direction to take the character - he&amp;#039;s older, he&amp;#039;s different to Matt and he&amp;#039;s Scottish!&amp;quot; She also suggested that a moodier Doctor could work well on the long-running BBC series.  &amp;quot;A lot of people associate him with Malcolm Tucker who&amp;#039;s very grumpy, but that could work for the Doctor,&amp;quot; Gillan added. Capaldi will make his first appearance on the show at Christmas when viewers bid farewell to Smith&amp;#039;s incarnation of the Time Lord.  Doctor Who will return to screens for its 50th anniversary special &amp;#039;The Day of the Doctor&amp;#039; on November 23. The episode will air simultaneously worldwide and stars Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Billie Piper and Jenna Coleman. Watch Gillan as Amy Pond in her final episode of Doctor Who below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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