Alex Kingston, aka the Doctor’s wife, River Song, has recalled her last days filming Doctor Who, notably that her final scenes kept making her and Twelfth Doctor actor, Peter Capaldi, cry!

Despite this, she didn’t actually know The Husbands of River Song would be River’s last episode.

She explains:

“Well, I didn’t know! I knew obviously from the storyline that they end up at Darillium and that there he’s giving her his sonic screwdriver, and coming full circle, but I couldn’t play that I knew because at that stage River doesn’t know. So that was incredibly hard for me, and those final scenes were really difficult to shoot.

“I just kept bawling my eyes out, and so did Peter [Capaldi], so it was really, really tough, but then at the same time, in this universe, anything can happen. She’s been saved.”

River was saved by the Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) at the conclusion of Silence in the Library/ Forest of the Dead, which, in a topsy-turvy manner, was also River’s first appearance in Doctor Who. Her story then unfolded in a twisted fashion, whereby she had many adventures with Matt Smith’s Eleventh Doctor and we learned that she was the daughter of his companions, Amy Pond and Rory Williams (Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill respectively).

She was afforded numerous farewells: in Forest of the Dead, in The Name of the Doctor, and in The Husbands of River Song, essentially getting to say goodbye to three different incarnations of the Doctor.

Kingston has always been so enthusiastic about Doctor Who, and we know she’d love to return. Sadly, for the minute, nothing’s happening with River (on TV at least) as nothing’s happening with Doctor Who. Still, perhaps her time in the show is over, sealed in a nice little bubble of its own; we wouldn’t want her to come back and her arc to be tainted by a sub-par series. Either way, this is Doctor Who, so you never know what’s in store.