I don’t necessarily want to have my last meal with them.” I have no issue with someone having a different opinion from me.
If an online critic has a premature assessment of her, she said: “It’s not a fact - it’s an opinion. Whittaker said she had largely been spared the brunt of this debate because she is not on social media. Peter Davison, who played the Doctor in the early 1980s, said at a 2017 Comic-Con appearance that he felt “a bit sad” at “the loss of a role model for boys,” while Colin Baker, his heir to the role, said those remarks were “absolute rubbish,” adding, “You don’t have to be of a gender of someone to be a role model.” Whittaker “is destined to be an utterly iconic Doctor.”
A disparaging hashtag, #NotMyDoctor, circulated on Twitter and Instagram, and the BBC received complaints from viewers, prompting the broadcaster to issue a statement that affirmed that “The Doctor is an alien from the planet Gallifrey, and it has been established in the show that Time Lords can switch gender,” adding that Ms. Whittaker was hailed quickly and widely, but not universally. Whittaker in a commercial shown after the Wimbledon men’s final in July 2017. Chibnall has not said who they were - the BBC revealed the selection of Ms. Whittaker said she answered, “If I don’t get it, can I still play a monster?”)įollowing an audition process in which other women were also considered - Mr. Chibnall explained that he wanted her to try out for the starring role, Ms. Whittaker said, “I was like, ‘Can I play a monster with loads of prosthetics?’” Chibnall asked her to consider auditioning for him, Ms.
the Extra-Terrestrial,” never discouraged that there were so few female protagonists to identify with.īut when it came to “Doctor Who,” she said, “The thought that you - that I - could be in it never crossed my mind.” When Mr. Whittaker grew up on beloved 1980s genre films like “Back to the Future,” “The Goonies” and “E.T. Whittaker, adding that she is “incredibly funny.” “The precision of what she does is extraordinary, and her instincts are just so right,” Mr. Whittaker, who he believed could handle the character’s emotional complexity and antic humor, was among his top choices. I would need about eight security people.” This morning, she was daydreaming about returning to the convention center and gawking at other celebrities attending, but, she said: “I’m not allowed. to Comic-Con International the preceding week. Whittaker was eating breakfast at a hotel here, having made her first visit as a V.I.P. “And I certainly can’t be typecast as it.” “There’s no other job like it,” she said. Whittaker said it was a role she could hardly resist.
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The series is also a prominent entertainment property in a field where efforts to diversify are often attacked by a vocal subset of fans.ĭespite these challenges, Ms. This is no easy feat for “Doctor Who,” which is accustomed to a certain scrutiny when it replaces its lead actor every few years. They want to celebrate the show’s inclusivity without chiding the wider genre for a historical lack of representation, and highlight how they have made the series more contemporary and more diverse - behind the camera as well as in front of it - while emphasizing that its fundamental principles haven’t changed. 7, they are still calibrating how they talk about it. Whittaker and her colleagues prepare for their first season of “Doctor Who” to make its BBC America debut on Oct.
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