Tennant portrays the demon, Crowley, in the miniseries. In one sequence, he watches his beloved 1930s Bentley — a car he’s owned since it was new — explode in a fiery wreck.

“It’s like Doctor Who seeing the TARDIS blow up,” Mackinnon, who directed episodes of the BBC TV series, told Tennant, who played the tenth Doctor.

“Okay, got it,” Mackinnon recalled Tennant saying. Off they went to finish the scene.