‘Squeeze the life out of me!’ - Chris Eccleston. ‘Double dip, I like it!' - David Tennant. 'Hello, sweeties!' - Matt Smith. ‘Oh, it's you two.' - Paul McGann.
Mandip confirms the plan from the beginning was always for Graham and Ryan to leave after Series 12 and that Yaz would stay on with The Doctor longer.
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Chibnall rang Jodie up during lockdown and said “This just feels like a truly terrifying episode…and I think The Doctor should say something,” and that’s how Jodie’s COVID message came to be.
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Re: Yaz’s love for Thirteen, Mandip hopes that you can look back at the whole series and see that it was there from the beginning, that her admiration for the Doctor slowly turned to love and it was an intentional choice on her part.
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Just a general observation on the DEPTH of Mandip’s emotional intelligence when it comes to her portrayal of Yaz and how much thought and intent went into every moment said and unsaid.
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Alex says Peter Capaldi kept tearing up during the filming of Husbands of River Song because HE knew it was the end of River, but Alex has to play NOT knowing it.
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“What’s amazing about
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is she never presumes she can do anything, when she ended up being the best actor on Doctor Who. Everyone loved her.” - Chris Eccleston singing his costar’s praises.
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Eccleston is pleased that his children are growing up in an era where gender roles are being dismantled, because he grew up with a mandate to not be vulnerable or feminine “and it didn’t do me any good!”
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When Chris first got the job, he was still working on Broadchurch, Jodie casually asked if she could come play a villain on Doctor Who. Chris said they should get coffee. The rest, as they say, is history.
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Now that schedule is live we can FINALLY scream from the rooftops that we’ll be interviewing
@therealjomartin
on the
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Mainstage on Sunday 2/20!!
“You know when Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi were announced we didn’t spend nearly this much time discussing their outfits.” - a 16 year old girl we’re about to adopt.
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Jo’s son is and has been a huge Doctor Who fan, and while he knew she was going to be in it, he didn’t know his mother was going to BE THE DOCTOR “until it came on telly.”
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Mandip agrees that without Dan’s gentle nudging that Yaz probably would have never voiced her feelings for the Doctor out loud, and for that, we thank him as the ship captain.
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Chibnall says Jodie Whittaker knew from the moment she decided to go after the role of the Doctor what it would mean to people and took that bit very seriously.
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Hayley and Michelle tried out several of Twelve’s looks on Missy and while the result was fabulously androgynous, they decided to keep her style. Fine, since the implication of Missy wearing one of the Doctor’s rumpled shirts would have surely killed us all.
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“You really set the tone for me.” - Jacqueline King to Camille Coduri, on how Jackie Tyler opened the door for companions to have these wonderfully complicated mothers.
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Props to the audience member who came with receipts about stats on AO3 and Thasmin fan fiction vs straight ships on Doctor Who. No choice but to stan them!!!
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Jo speaking beautifully about the power of fans of color sharing how impactful it is to cosplay as the Doctor "without anyone being able to say anything."
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Sophie says that she suffered eating disorders when she was young. After her first Doctor Who episode aired, she was asked by producers to lose weight. (She put weight on, just to spite them.)
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Clara's planned ending: Marries sweet and normal boyfriend. Has babies and grandbabies. Dies in bed of old age.
Clara's actual ending: Puts Doctor through literal hell. Doesn't rest until she becomes a Time Lord. Gets a cute girlfriend. Burns the entire mother down.
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Eccles says Empty Child/Doctor Dances was his fave episodes to shoot. He connected with Moffat’s interpretation of the Doctor right from the start.
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Jemma (A FUCKING REDGRAVE) was told on her first film to lose weight. “We went to dinner and the director took my menu away and gave me a plate of crudités.”
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