 and still after nearly a year of doing the community show I don't have an intro so hi terrific hello hi it's good to have you around thank you for having me no absolutely it's although it's not the first time we've crossed paths has it not we've we haven't spoken but we've bumped into each other at LFCC you were the oud weren't you you were brian not at the con but that was someone else i don't again we i don't think we spoke but we were in like a circle it was like dom and a few others i remember spotting you because you had large fake breasts and i was trying to figure out if they were real yeah i'm six foot two you don't tend to get women with large breasts at all sort of eye height yeah yeah so that's a good way of starting this interview off i don't just go around talking about looking at people's breaths by the way i should mention that anyway i'd like i like saying that and then glancing over to the engagement balloons she's like she's uh she's some so um first question a fairly standard question when did you start cosplaying 2015 i decided i really wanted david tenon's coat it's a good starting point i'll have that and i'll just wear that as a coat because it's a really nice coat and then i foolishly thought oh well if i have the coat i'm going to need the suit and the converse and the screwdriver okay and i ended up with a really long list of shirts and ties hair products and it's a nightmare that was a deep mistake six or seven years on it's always what you want to hear from different cosplayers it's like it's a mistake don't do it stay away think of your bank account it's not worth it oh god like i mean specifically with especially the 10th dr coat i can imagine that as a starting point was fairly pricey i had a cheap ish china one so it was quite a thin material the so on the back of the coat it's got a split that's supposed to kind of stretch out oh yeah but because of the way it had been laid and how cheap the fabrics were it looked more like i had a vagina on my back oh and that was that was a couple years away in that coat of life got a vagina on your back don't think about it it's not it's fine but eventually i upgraded that to a proper nice replica that was very expensive was that like the one with the bbc shop i remember that was available for a while that this one was the magnolia one oh yeah they're good but pricey so pricey wow that is currently hanging up in a wardrobe and is not being touched at the moment well i understand from your stuff you like to do the sort of niche cosplays so something like the 10th doctor which is oversaturated i know because i've done it that's how that's how you know everyone does it because jack does it so i imagine that's just like you'll have your time did get a bit boring to wear when you're kind of you can turn up to a con and be the only roundie in a doctor who cosplay group yeah or you can be one of 25 10s and me just just to get the comparison boring and it's at this point jack will take off the purple jacket because he's baking sorry too hot which is ironic because this is not the doctor it's not the baker now i can be journey to the center of the target well the sleeves much better but i'm not the one wearing a jumper no oh it was a mistake but you're styling it out with the scarf though so that's pretty good it's all just clashing colors it's just making sure you're seeing me on the screen it's just i'm going to bump up the saturation just to make it like very hair yeah so that covers the first cosplay too so this is going to be a tricky question and i've actually also interviewed abby louise of the titi huvians and she's got the same thing where she likes to do a bunch of different little ones how many characters let's speak to doctor who do you think you've done at this point this is going to be tricky i'll have a counter on screen that's just like ding ding i had do you want me to list them let's give it a go let's list them i'll keep it i'll keep tracking the edit in order i think the earliest one i've done so it was the mark of the runny runny mark of the runny runny the mark of the runny runny runny uh it uh he has any master uh to do the time and the runny running because it's an entirely different set of clothes different wig everything thanks costume department of doctor who making things tricky the dimensions in time running good lord all three of them i think that's it for classic then you've got the ninth doctor i've got jackie taylor uh that's a personal favorite because you took a picture with camille countering wearing that didn't you i haven't met metta wearing it yet are we not so dressed as nine she gave me a good slap but i'm going to meet her one day that pink dressing gown uh jackie and then i think oh christ this is where it gets tricky come on right who is it after jackie trying to think in all the episodes it's like i'm remembering i don't think it's anyone up until christmas and patient i've got 10 pajamas 10 well that's a good one i've got chip and kassandra from new earth see again just those two in particular i thought nobody would do it nobody would think to do it i i adore that woman is my icon and that action figure was the one i desperately wanted when they first released them i want the skin on on wheels yeah i see i they did two versions of that and i only got the destroyed one it's just a frame yeah rubbish why did they release that series two is a wild time wall was sponsored and exclusive and they gave them like is that what it was they were like we want an exclusive figure you have four days we'll just take the skin well i mean it works i'd love to see him pull that now we don't see wool with us anymore no and it was all destroyed kassandra's fault but she's a treasured figure i've both of them oh i see i lost mine years ago drashig right kassandra chip sarah jane from school union sarah jane from invasion of the bane oh i like that one that's the purple card again the striped dress this is just me testing my knowledge tense doctor from the rise of the sidemen it's the black suit oh that's a good one and also the tux which is a different suit so both of those is it it's a different one oh it's just a black suit and rise of the sidemen i see i wouldn't know tux in that's a risk experiment cool i've also done the wire oh that's a good one she was great fun um i did because it was the 15th anniversary of series two last year so i tried to do as many as i could from that i did toby zed last year toby zed i did it was oh yeah okay wow yeah victor kennedy and the absorber loft which were not how have i not how have i not seen the absorber oh i'm finding it green face paint it's as hopeful but i was going to meet a friend that day it's like i've got to wash all this green off me just now i should have just gone just free to now just drawn on fucking it just not like completely just ignore of the fact that your absorber loft is like oh you're right mate yeah just never bring it up you're right i'll eat you yeah yeah just looking a bit ill yeah oh i have got to be able to upset tell me just faces yeah absorber loft yvonne hartman there's definitely a theme with a lot of the women characters you do unpleasant women interesting is that a conscious choice or is he just drawn to them i probably am one and so it's just that's who i want to be i want to be the nasty cow well fair enough everybody's going to have their thing exactly my niche uh donna and the runaway brides she was quite nasty in that one i've done sylvia and wilf and wilf you got the whole noble clan exactly that's gotta be a funny family photo you just gotta put them all together i did i've got me as wilf and me as sylvia just next to each other excellent after that series three i've got all three of this johnson master looks oh good one is the saxon the hoodie from your time and the series 10 that's a good look that's a nice one oh i saw your miss foster that was one because that's the one i put in the community show she's terrific i was very glad to find that sort of double breasted jacket like that that was how much of this is screen accurate as opposed to just sort of generally looking like it because sometimes they're very specific most of it isn't unless i can find a specific piece if it's someone like the tenth doctor or sarah jane school union i was quite adamant to find her jacket because it's a quite specific brown leather jacket right it's like buckles on the pockets and i thought if i can find that then i'll the rest of it you can kind of bodge together but that just a staple piece that is accurate and the rest of it can look the part so trying to find high res images from 15 years ago where you can tell on the button it says caron millen it's like oh yeah now i know i'm looking for a 15 year old brown leather jacket god i mean you must have felt like just a spy just like in haunts in haunts exactly it's just trying to find the angles i'm desperate to find her jacket from stolen earth which is a sort of oh yeah the sort of crunchy baby yeah creamy and it's slightly asymmetrical and i have no idea where it's from oh yeah i will never find one if you know let us know it's getting content like that give it to me no excuses give it to ollie that would be mean to not give it to me it's a charitable donation exactly i don't god knows what number we're at right now right you'll be on the screen enjoy it because i get up to the masters oh yeah i did a half a missy look the all good one together her nice hat from series 10 that's my lovely this is her bracelet as well from series eight with it yes i did a swarm oh god that swarm one yeah worrying so much just purple and then gold eyeliner it's the nose that cracked me up it was not great fun to just sort of color out just pretend i haven't got one just go with it go with it is that all of them no i must have done more i don't i tell you what i put together a collage oh did you oh yes anniversary of the re oh let's let's have a look at this collage see what we missed so we've got uh the wire you find professor yana i put together john smith from human nature i'm playing him in paulie animated series three that's coming out today nicely done well well you can do the voice nicely done yeah it depends on the audience really doesn't it because good lord that man made me say some truly horrific things john smith i did a max capricorn edit good lord head ball cap to draw on the stash i mean it works you know it is it's christmas time his name is max famous quote thing uh sky solvestry from midnight oh that's a good one so that was then too nice i also have trying to do a stage play around this ten so that's just the t-shirts rather than yeah a shirt we've also got nadal course the war doctor my my icon and the dream lords and then a razor from series 10 as well so pre disguised oh right interesting i had a hat made specifically for that friend knit me a hat cosplay is a funny old hobby isn't it it's just weird can you get some weird places a specific brown hat i'll give you 10 photos go with it sure and it's actually a really accurate replica so she did very well at least see just looking at that collage though i'm kind of glad i didn't come to yours because i can't imagine like i can imagine just opening a cupboard oh that's why i've only got the bag and yeah and i was an hour late because trying to find all the wigs shirts and pieces from wherever they were stuffed yeah it was it was i can only imagine and there'll be a separate video coming out about all of his cosplays so keep an eye out for that i don't know how we're going to film that but we'll figure it out excellent so uh but with cosplay you know some people get different things out of it like for some people it's an escape for some people it's about getting it as screen accurate as possible for some others it's other reasons so what is your what is your purpose for cosplay i don't know it's a deep adoration i'm missing in my life it's just just people to go that's quite good so it's for the reaction and a lot of the time yeah the cosplay itself is incidental it's nice i like putting together pieces but for someone to then look at it and go i know who that is or oh that looks great yeah that's what i'm after it's the attention i'm an attention seeker ollie ollie here at a completely vain so hence why he's just attention seeking vain that'd be your tagline on the full interview ollie parentheses vain parentheses so here's going to be the trickiest question as you've done so many do you have a favorite whether it be from the reaction for just looking at yourself and going like oh hell yeah look great like what would you say is a favorite of yours it depends because there's looking good in them for photos and then there's looking good in person at cons there yeah and there's comfort there's a lot of very uncomfortable ones where i look quite good my three i think it's the very first three cosplays i did those three characters it's 10 because i'm tall and skinny and i've got good cheekbones i can spy my hair yeah it's kind of a that's all you really need for ten on that exactly um definitely the runny she was my first cross-dressing cosplay and that's kind of informed the rest of the cosplays that i've done and then probably the war doctor because deeply loves the john hurts and all those the layers and the pieces and the props and the boots and shirt waistcoat jacket it's a gorgeous costume it's a good thing you didn't wear that one that would have been a nightmare yeah i almost hear that scarf i thought i've put that scarf not with a jumper not in this heat i mean you'll sound like john hurt by the time you got here ah yeah so i'm looking for the doctor wait come to the right place so um have you got any future plans as the last question uh i'm assuming there's like for you there's got to be like a list of just random ones they're just like oh that'd be quite nice i'll do that i have started because i've got so many tying them more to anniversaries of episodes yeah i've got an excuse to do them rather than just uh out of the blue pick one and i think this year we've got the 15th anniversary of series three oh god has it been that long but i'm not old but it makes me feel old and i don't like that i wasn't young enough 15 years ago for me to not feel old now yeah well we've got don't think i've got any new because i've got so gotta do family of blood surely like i've done son of mine before that was a random one i did that's fair i could see that yeah and that's why i did it i did uh there was three over the years i've been told i look like three separate people from doctor who one of which is the 10th doctor i was happy with that you know being turned you look like david tenon is a compliment the second one was luke ratigan right i mean i get it i guess i've got the brows but like how dare you i it's the main thing yeah wow it's a good thing i don't sound like him cleverer than you and then the last one was son of mine which sure which was james Sutton uh i believe is a mutual of ours did he say that he's very rude that son isn't he is horribly unpleasant terrible person real vile creature but does a decent dominic impression anyway yeah so according to dom well quite poor old tom you can't feel bad for dom his impressions he's got one impression that stretches from dom that can then turn into me that then if he gravels it up slightly it's john her it's all one impression and i don't know how he does it but it's it's you can it's sort of a progression it's a wheel of the circle of impression james Sutton just so multi-talented he accidentally does impressions by trying to do other ones just trips and david mitchell is on that wheel as well it's what a strange man so strange i'm gonna message him later about this you are james yeah this is turning into the roast of james son anyway so who is on the list who is on the list i've got a harriet jones at some point oh that's a must yes um and a river song i have never done a river and i'm really enormous hair that seems like what a very obvious way for you is that i have not yet done one but she is at some point so she's got a million different looks though so once you're in like that's a long spiral exposed cleavage or do i want sort of something a bit more tasteful but why is the most iconic river look i mean the spacesuit be tricky that would be tricky and warm there is the catsuit variant seen in like one episode nice beaded gowns husband of river song that is a good one there's the america look for the jean jacket that was a good one like that denim uh pandarica with that white kind of slight clear patra river song fashion icon i think is the world well yes that is the end of the main interview we're now going to crack on looking at these costumes in a bag it's going to be quite exciting so keep an eye out for that thank you for coming over ollie if you're chatting to you so far and we'll figure out what we're going to have for a takeaway in a minute lovely nice the end yeah see i'm