Eccleston threatened legal action against manipulative and devious Auntie.

More confirmation if it is needed that professional actors are professional liars and that really skilled actors are really convincing liars.

I am 100% on Eccleston's side about the BBC bastardry but it's good to note that he can genuinely perform emotive stuff - when interviewed, not just in a production.

Probably the reason why a lot of actors turn to politics...

Love Eccleston the actor and the man.
Hated him as the Doctor.
To me, like Whittaker he is the antithesis of what the Doctor should be, an eccentric scientist explorer alien aristocrat.
he's about as far from that as it's gets.