We are going to see a little bit into Amy and Rory’s past and how they were friends as kids and how they got together as teenagers,” Gillan says. “My cousin, Caitlin Blackwood, plays the young, young version of Amy Pond, and then I play the kind of teenage one.”

She doesn’t reveal, however, if young Rory (Ezekiel Wigglesworth) has always been in love with Amy or if their relationship had to develop into affection over time. “We see the beginning of something,” Gillan teases. “That Rory breaks my heart. He is so cute.