There’s no doubt that Jodie Whittaker’s casting as the first female Doctor in Doctor Who was a groundbreaking move.
And the BBC are very much going for that message in their latest teaser for the new series of the sci-fi show, which shows Whittaker literally breaking the glass ceiling.
“Whoops!” she says as the screen rightly declares “it’s about time”. We very much see what you did there, BBC.
Whittaker recently opened up about taking on the role of the iconic Time Lord, saying she was ready to have some “fun” with her first series of the show.
“Doctor Who wasn’t something that was on TV in my house when I was growing up, so I thought I’d have to cane it before the first audition and watch every single episode,” she told Marie Claire.
“Thankfully, Chris [Chibnall, the producer] said, ‘I don’t want you to. I want you to come in with fresh eyes and bring what you would do in this environment’.”
She added: “I knew that there would be a huge amount of people it would be a shock for. But this job celebrates change more than any other role – you have a physical regeneration, so casting [a woman] supports that story and doesn’t go against the rules of the show in any way.
“I’m playing a Time Lord who’s essentially an alien and inhabits different bodies and this one is female. The best thing for me though is that, for the first time in my life, I am not playing a stereotypical woman because as much as I approach everything as an actor, I am continually labelled by the female version of that character.
“I recently had someone ask me, ‘Are you playing it as a girl or a boy?’ I replied, ‘I’m just playing it.’ This is the most freeing role because there are no rules.”
Doctor Who will move to Sunday nights starting on October 7 on BBC One in the UK, with the series airing on BBC America in the US. Watch the full trailer below:
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