“It was a completely mutual agreement,” she insists of the recent news that she is to leave the show. Steven Moffat and I decided when would be the best time for Amy to go.” Gillan might know when, but she doesn’t know how – only that Moffat has promised it will be heartbreaking: “I’d like to see her go out in flames of glory.”

Her first post-Who project will be Not Another Happy Ending, a quirky indie film – “It’s a great script, really funny” – in which Gillan will play an eccentric author with writer’s block. And after that? Does Hollywood appeal? “Ooo, that would be really fun. I like the States.”