It’s more fun being Doctor Who than being Peter Capaldi

“I think he’s actually quite sympathetic, apart from the fact that he’s a serial killer,” Peter Capaldi muses while talking with the Radio Times reporters.

The Scottish actor, who made his name during the last decades with roles ranging from Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It to the Twelfth Doctor in Doctor Who, is pondering his latest character, Gideon Shepherd, in The Devil’s Hour season 2. Season 1 saw that Gideon Shepherd, a man who is reborn every time he dies and who has devoted his life to prevent terrible tragedies from happening, locked in a cell.

But at the end of the season, he escapes and, this time around, he’s unleashed onto the world as he and Jessica Raine’s Lucy Chambers form an uneasy alliance to attempt to stop a devastating incident. “I think I do empathise with him,” Capaldi tells that reporters from RadioTimes.com in an exclusive interview. “What’s driving him is a desire to keep people, ironically, safe – and he’s trapped.