Jodie Whittaker broke the TARDIS before Doctor Who filming wrapped

By Lidia Molina-Whyte

Published: Sunday, 16 October 2022 at 12:00 am

Doctor Who fans don’t have much longer to wait for Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor to land on screens. The episode will mark the last time Jodie Whittaker dons the longcoat, and she’s “still crying” about it.

At a recent press screening for the upcoming centenary episode, Whittaker revealed that in her haste to keep a reminder of her time in the TARDIS, she ended up breaking it before realising filming wasn’t over yet.

“So when me and Mandip [Gill] wrapped on the TARDIS, we heard, ‘That’s a wrap on the TARDIS’ so we went all out,” Whittaker explained. “We were yanking stuff out. When the TARDIS flies, there’s a mini TARDIS that spins that has a light inside – I snapped it off.”

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Jodie Whittaker in The Power of the Doctor.
BBC

But as it turned out, the pair heard wrong. Whittaker continued: “Then [we found out] it wasn’t a wrap on the TARDIS, it was a wrap on us in the TARDIS, so we were going in for pick-ups and we were like, ‘Um… awkward, you’re going to have to shoot around that!’”

As well as the bits she managed to grab from the TARDIS, Whittaker revealed what other keepsakes she has from the set of Doctor Who.

She said: “I’ve got my costume and I’ve definitely got my sonic. I nicked quite a few things early on, random things. I’ve got quite a bit of furniture. When we wrapped on a set, I’d be like, ‘Is anyone using that chair? I love that chair!’ so I’ve got loads. I’m a right hoarder.”

Additional reporting by Morgan Jeffery.

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