The one-time Doctor Who and foil of Withnail is enjoying a surprising career second act as a practitioner of silent cinema. He explains why it’s so tricky.
‘There’s you, and there’s Frodo, and the Fonz. Then there’s Stan Lee, God rest his soul, and Hulk Hogan. Then there’s the Power Rangers in the corner.” Paul McGann is just back from Pensacon in Florida, where his status as the eighth Doctor Who means he has once again been sampling the surreal pop-cultural pleasures of a massive fan convention…’