Whats the biggest challenge about playing Captain Jack?
Barrowman: The biggest challenge about playing Captain Jack—it’s nothing kind of internal, because I’m not one of those kind of actors. I just get up and I do it. I’d say one of the biggest challenges is running in that damn coat [laughs]. I guess, if you want a deeper kind of answer, the challenge to keep him fresh [is] that he represents all people, and that’s why people have connected to him. And also the challenge is to make him honest and make him truthful rather than being a stereotype. While running in that damn coat. Barrowman: I call it the flick. I have to do a special flick, and [Doctor Who star] David Tennant has the same problem in his coat, and when we’re together, we look like two really flouncy men flicking our coat before we start a run. And they never show that in the edit. … My biggest upset is that you are only going to have five episodes. I want three events. Barrowman: That could happen. In fact, I had a discussion the other day with Russell. We were doing a pan
