The former Twelfth Doctor looks back on the \u201cemotional turmoil\u201d of saying goodbye to the Doctor \u2013 but says Whittaker \u201ccan handle all of that without any advice from me\u201d. <\/p>
With Jodie Whittaker now confirmed to be leaving Doctor Who<\/a>, there are few people who can truly understand the media storm that she\u2019s likely to go through as fans speculate about the next Doctor.<\/p>\n But there\u2019s one man who knows about it only too well \u2013 Peter Capaldi, who preceded Whittaker as the Doctor and recently spoke to us all about the \u201cemotional turmoil\u201d of leaving.<\/p>\n Capaldi, who is currently starring in the DC movie The Suicide Squad<\/a>, stopped short of giving Whittaker any specific advice but did say he knows all about what she will be going through.<\/p>\n Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com<\/a><\/strong> before news of Whittaker\u2019s departure was made official, Capaldi said: \u201cWell, Jodie\u2019s lovely and amazing. I\u2019m sure she can handle all of that without any advice from me. She\u2019s brilliant.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an odd thing that happens, that you don\u2019t \u2014 I always remember when I took over from Matt. It was only when I left that I realised how gracious Matt had been to me, because I realised he was leaving\u2026 It was while he was leaving, he was being so kind to me. He was going through the emotional turmoil of leaving, and took the time to be gracious to me.\u201d<\/p> He added: \u201cIt\u2019s like, the whole Doctor Who experience, it\u2019s not over until it\u2019s over, you know? You don\u2019t really see it clearly until you\u2019ve been through it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDoctor Who is kind of a thing where you have a responsibility to it, and to the people who work on it, and to the people who love it, that is quite a heavy responsibility. So to have that lifted, means that you can relax a bit, and do things that are more esoteric and stranger and darker.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd certainly, I think post-Doctor Who I\u2019m more like the way I was pre-Doctor Who. The whole Doctor Who thing, you have to sort of become a different person, really, to do that. 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