"Doctor Who" returned at the weekend with a double bill — "Space Babies" and "The Devil’s Chord." Here's a Rolling Stone U.K. interview from last year with the 15th Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, in which he talks about his approach to the character and how he identifies with them. "As a child, Gatwa and his family fled Rwanda, escaping the genocide against the Tutsi minority. They settled in Scotland," writes journalist Alison Rumfitt. “This person survived a genocide. This person fits in everywhere and nowhere. I am the Doctor. The Doctor is me. I decided that I had to get this role,” Gatwa told her. How do you feel about the new series so far?
On May 10, Ncuti Gatwa starts his first full season as the Doctor — the first Black and first openly queer man to take on the role. Entertainment Weekly talked to him about the responsibility he feels to get things right. “I was really cautious about getting it right throughout filming,” the Rwandan-Scottish actor explains. “It’s 60 years’ worth of legacy and 60 years’ worth of a show that people have loved and watched with their families. It lives in people’s hearts, so I really wanted to protect that.”
The new season of "Doctor Who" will premiere on May 10 in the U.S. and May 11 in the U.K. Here's a new trailer, showing Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson as the Doctor and Ruby Sunday respectively, and giving us a glimpse of what to expect from Russell T. Davies' first full series as showrunner since 2010. Plus, @arstechnica's @JenLucPiquant breaks down what happened in the 60th anniversary specials.
Okay, this has to be an #AprilFools thing. I get that some tenures of #TheDoctor are short, but they can't bring back another old face every other Doctor.
#doctorwho however different every new season is, I know I love a Christmas special and I'll usually want to watch it over again. This one's awful though - horrible writing 😭 goblins and stolen babies, really? singing? #15 deserves better. Love #NcutiGatwa , not a huge fan of #ruby yet 🤷♀️ please get it together for May 🙄 this can't possibly be it
It's a tiny bit unsettling how catchy this is. At least all proceeds from streaming go to 'Children in Need', so I feel less bad for listening to a song by a bunch of goblins preparing to feed a baby to the Goblin King, who is definitely more Jabba the Hutt than David Bowie.
Totally looking forward to the Christmas Special, if only to find out what on earth (or possibly not on earth) is going on.
These were three wonderful #DoctorWho specials. I laughed, I wept, if there was room behind my couch I would have leapt into it.
Great way to welcome Russell T. Davis back as showrunner!
David Tennant was brilliant (although these days I am liking him better as #Crowley ) and Catherine Tate just shines.
#NcutiGatwa oh all good spirits! Imagine playing his first appearance as the Doctor in naught but a shirt & pants (in the British sense of 'pants') -- and it works!! 😳
The first of three special episodes of "Doctor Who" will land on the BBC and Disney+ on Nov. 25. GQ talked to Ncuti Gatwa, who will take over as the Doctor at the end of the run, about how he feels. “I’m a good actor [but] this is a 60-year-long British institution and I’m a Black man, so I never thought that I’d be chosen to front something that is basically the heart of the BBC,” he says.
In this #podcast talk about the #NcutiGatwa interview in the August/September 2023 issue of #RollingStone UK. We try to tease out what sort of #DoctorWho will Gatwa be and chat about what we hope his time in the #TARDIS will be like.
David Tennant, of Dr Who fame, apparently said some pro trans things and now the TERFs are going after him on Twitter. His response is that he isn't worried because, and I quote, "I'll be fine, Terfs can't climb stairs"
I want that on a T-shirt. No, I NEED that on a T-shirt!
ETA: Apparently it was a parody account that said the stairs line. I still want it on a T-shirt.
Ncuti Gatwa will become the 15th Doctor in December. Before then, he's playing one of Barbie's Kens. He talked to Rolling Stone about his extraordinary journey from Rwandan refugee to Doctor Who, and his thoughts on the Doctor's style. "Originally, we weren’t going to have the Afro, but [makeup artist] Bella convinced me and I’m very glad she did. It’s such a shot into the bloodstream. It’s a statement — the Doctor is f**king Black.”
I made the 15th Doctor in their 60s outfit, but it's been a long while since I last sculpted anything so I'm well out of practice. #DoctorWho#15thDoctor#NcutiGatwa