Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker will play time traveler for at least one more season
), she was on the eve of her debut as the first woman to play the long-running show’s titular two-hearted alien. Two years in, how has the British actress’s life changed since becoming the new face of the globally beloved series? “I wear a baseball cap on the tube or on the subway,” quips Whittaker, 37. “But really, my life has changed in a wonderful sense.
Plenty of those fans are delighted at the way the show — currently airing Sunday nights on BBC America — is now embracing its 56-year-long history. Showrunner Chris Chibnall acted as a new broom for Whittaker’s inaugural season, casting Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole, and Bradley Walsh as a fresh clutch of human companions for the Doctor and, at least initially, declining to rely on old villains or aliens.
Later this season, the Doctor will also face off against another old foe in the clanking form of the Cybermen, a race of cyborgs who encase victims in metallic suits and force them to join their ranks. “They’ve got aexciting.” Though Whittaker’s first season as the Doctor drew criticism from some fans for what they perceived to be its overly political nature , the actress claims she doesn’t pay much attention to the discourse around the show, whether positive or negative. “I’ve seen loads of fan art, which I always love,” she says. “But it’s never been that great for me to immerse myself in noise that you can’t control, good or bad. I think both are a rabbit hole that you shouldn’t necessarily go down.
But Whittaker isn’t going anywhere. The length of time an actor has played the Doctor has varied over the years — back in the ’70s and ’80s, Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor piloted the TARDIS for seven seasons; in the aughts, Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor survived just one. So, will Whittaker return for a third run of shows? “Yes, I’m doing another season,” she confirms.
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