Doctor Who's Peter Capaldi: I'd like David Bowie as a guest star

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Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi would like David Bowie and Keith Richards to guest star on the BBC1 show.

Bowie is no stranger to extraterrestrial activity, having played an alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth and topped the charts with Space Oddity, while Richards has trod the boards in the Pirates of the Caribbean series of films alongside Johnny Depp.

“David Bowie, he would be a very good one,” Capaldi told the audience at a screening for the first two episodes of series nine in Cardiff, adding that he would like to see “Keith Richards – stumbling around the Tardis, knocking out a few chords.”

Capaldi, who plays the Doctor, is a big fan of the pair. “The punk explosion started when I was about 18 so I love new wave music and rock’n’roll,” he said.

Doctor Who has played host to many high-profile guest stars over the years – including Simon Pegg, Carey Mulligan, and John Hurt. This series will see guest actors including Maisie Williams and Michelle Gomez.

No word, though, on whether Bowie’s inclusion could take inspiration from the Flight of the Conchords spoof, Bowie in Space.

The trailer for the new series includes a clip of Capaldi, playing the electric guitar, which the actor said he was “delighted” to find it in the script.

“I think I’d sort of half mentioned it in joking, but I was really delighted that these guys went for it as an idea,” he said.

“It was a great day when I went to pick the Doctor’s guitar. We went to Denmark street and went into various vintage guitar shops, looking for Doctor Who’s guitar.

“And I first I thought it should be like a Stratocaster or a Telecaster, one of those old classic guitars, but they all started to look like I was having a mid-life crisis.”

He also revealed he sought advice from previous Doctors when he took on the part. “It’s extraordinary because your life does change in some ways quite dramatically,” he said.

“I spoke to both David [Tennant] and Matt [Smith] before, and they both said, ‘Well you will just become much more visible.’ I didn’t quite take on board what that meant.

“It means when you go down to the supermarket or the shops or whatever, people shout out at you from cars, and people say hello and come up to you. And at first it was quite scary, because you feel very exposed.”

But he has adapted to the public attention because it comes with goodwill: “What you get is affection. You’d have to be very stony-hearted to not be charmed by how kindly people look upon the Doctor.”