{"id":6489,"date":"2021-10-30T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T09:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1482549"},"modified":"2021-10-30T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T09:17:07","slug":"jodie-whittaker-and-mandip-gill-on-doctor-who-series-13-and-what-its-like-to-leave-the-tardis-behind","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/jodie-whittaker-and-mandip-gill-on-doctor-who-series-13-and-what-its-like-to-leave-the-tardis-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Jodie Whittaker and Mandip Gill on Doctor Who series 13 \u2013 and what it\u2019s like to leave the TARDIS behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Huw Fullerton\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Saturday, 30 October 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"&quot;page&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Page\">\n<div class=\"&quot;section&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;layoutArea&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;column&quot;\">\n<p>For departing <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/doctor-who-season-13-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Doctor Who<\/a> star Jodie Whittaker, the clock is ticking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still very much the Doctor. I will be until I\u2019m no longer on screen as the Doctor,\u201d she says as she wraps filming on her final episode, roughly a year before viewers see her regenerate into whomever comes next. \u201cWhen it\u2019s my last day of shooting, that will certainly feel as if a huge part of my life is over. But as far as being the Doctor, I get to drag it out\u00a0for as long as they put the episodes on for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only now in the last week or so there\u2019s been some tears shed,\u201d adds Whittaker\u2019s co-star Mandip Gill, who has played Yasmin \u201cYaz\u201d Khan since 2018. \u201cThere is definitely something in the air now. We all realise that what we\u2019ve been\u00a0doing is coming to an end.\u201d<\/p> <p>Whittaker\u2019s departure from Doctor Who was probably the worst-kept secret in showbusiness, with stories about her exit springing up months before she confirmed she was leaving, alongside showrunner Chris Chibnall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChris and I always said we were going to do three series together, but then when you get to it, it\u2019s a very different thing,\u201d she says. \u201cSometimes it was like\u2026 \u2018Are we sticking to this decision?\u2019 There\u2019s part of me that could absolutely say, \u2018No, let\u2019s keep going! Let\u2019s go back on it!\u2019 But to give the fans the level that they deserve, there has to be some sacrifice. You have to know when you\u2019ve done it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"&quot;page&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Page\">\n<div class=\"&quot;section&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;layoutArea&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;column&quot;\">\n<p>Her departure is still a long way off, with three specials scheduled for 2022 following Whittaker\u2019s third series in the TARDIS, which starts this week. Truncated due to COVID from 10 episodes to six, and featuring a mysterious catastrophe that sends the Doctor zipping across time and space, their new series is what we\u2019re here to discuss. Hypothetical tears wiped away, Whittaker and Gill get to business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t been able to go to very many places, just Liverpool and parts of beautiful Wales,\u201d Gill says. \u201cSo the sets have had to get bigger, the prosthetics are bigger, the monsters old and new\u2026 everything\u2019s had to go to a new level. And I think naturally it does have to get to a massive climax.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--full=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/doctor-who-s13-0b66cf8.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/doctor-who-s13-0b66cf8.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/doctor-who-s13-0b66cf8.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=355%2C236&quot;\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;Jodie\" whittaker=\"\" thirteenth=\"\" doctor=\"\" confronts=\"\" a=\"\" new=\"\" alien=\"\" title=\"&quot;doctor-who-s13&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Jodie Whittaker\u2019s Thirteenth Doctor confronts Karvanista (BBC)<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>BBC<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p>New monsters include creatures called the Ravagers and Karvanista, while some of the \u201cold\u201d baddies already confirmed to be back include the baked-potato-like Sontarans (whose rusty redesign Gill says is \u201cso cute\u201d) and fan-favourite, living statues the Weeping Angels. \u201cThey are genuinely terrifying, whether it\u2019s being played by an actor or if it\u2019s a statue \u2013 either one is creepy!\u201d says Whittaker.<\/p>\n<p>But monster redesigns aren\u2019t the biggest change this year. Instead of a team of writers assembling a familiar mix of stand-alone episodes and two-parters, the entire six-part series, Flux \u2013 penned by Chibnall with returning writer Maxine Alderton co-writing episode four \u2013 is serialised, a creative decision forced by COVID but now embraced by cast and crew.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;page&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Page\">\n<div class=\"&quot;section&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;layoutArea&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;column&quot;\">\n<p>\u201cObviously for Doctor Who fans there\u2019s been all versions over the years \u2013 there\u2019s serialisation, there\u2019s one-off episodes,\u201d says Whittaker. \u201cBut in this, we\u2019re ending episodes where literally the next beat will be a week later. We\u2019re still going to different time periods and facing different monsters, but now there\u2019s a bubbling over of the storylines, and it all builds like a slow pan on the hob.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--full=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/22664990-high_res-doctor-who-s13-18a8add.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/22664990-high_res-doctor-who-s13-18a8add.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/22664990-high_res-doctor-who-s13-18a8add.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=556%2C370&quot;\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><img class=\"&quot;wp-image-1394629\" align=\"\" size-full=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--full=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/22664990-high_res-doctor-who-s13-18a8add.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;620&quot;\" height=\"&quot;413&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;Doctor\" who=\"\" title=\"&quot;doctor-who-chris-chibnall-blow-up-universe-series-13-newsupdate&quot;\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div> <div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"> <span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"> <i>BBC<\/i> <\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Guest actors include <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/line-of-duty-season-7-release-date\/&quot;\">Line of Duty<\/a>\u2019s Craig Parkinson and Rochenda Sandall, The Inbetweeners\u2019 Blake Harrison, Pirates of the Caribbean\u2019s Kevin McNally and many more. But most significant of the fresh faces is new companion John Bishop, who encounters the Doctor and Yaz in the first episode and stays on board the TARDIS across the series.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;page&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Page\">\n<div class=\"&quot;section&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;layoutArea&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;column&quot;\">\n<p>\u201cMandip and I were so close to Tosin [Cole who played Ryan] and Brad [Bradley Walsh, who played Graham], but it\u2019s been an amazing transition,\u201d says Whittaker. \u201cIt\u2019s just been a wonderful thing to end with, for me, the same kind of love and friendship and family feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;page&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Page\">\n<div class=\"&quot;section&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;layoutArea&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;column&quot;\">\n<p>Whittaker and Gill finished the regeneration episode in mid-October, followed by a fancy-dress wrap party (Whittaker dressed as Spider-Man, Gill as Kim Kardashian). But already the future of Doctor Who seems secure, thanks to the biggest surprise twist in Who history \u2013 <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/sci-fi\/doctor-who-russell-t-davies-showrunner-return-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">the return of Russell T Davies<\/a>, who ushered the programme into the 21st century as showrunner from 2005 to 2010 and brought in in writers including Chris Chibnall. He takes back the reins from Chibnall for the series\u2019 60th anniversary in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone\u2019s excited about Russell,\u201d says Gill.\u00a0\u201cFor me, it\u2019s so exciting and a relief to know it\u2019s going on in safe hands. But we still have a year of what we\u2019re doing. There\u2019s so much more before that even happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--full=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=300%2C200,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=355%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=355%2C236,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=405%2C270,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=405%2C270,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=554%2C369,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=554%2C369,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=408%2C272,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=408%2C272,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=556%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(min-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=556%2C370,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;\"><img class=\"&quot;wp-image-1482357\" align=\"\" size-full=\"\" image-handler__image=\"\" image-handler__image--full=\"\" no-wrap=\"\" js-lazyload=\"\" data-src=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2021\/10\/Doctor-Who-BTS-6427338.jpg?quality=90&amp;resize=620%2C413&quot;\" width=\"&quot;1407&quot;\" height=\"&quot;937&quot;\" alt=\"&quot;Doctor\" who=\"\" title=\"&quot;Doctor\" bts=\"\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div><div class=\"&quot;caption-hold&quot;\"><figcaption class=\"&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;caption-copy&quot;\"><i class=\"&quot;icon-arrow\" icon-camera-circle=\"\"\/> Mandip Gill, Jodie Whittaker and John Bishop behind-the-scenes of series 13 (BBC)<\/span><\/figcaption><span class=\"&quot;im-image-caption&quot;\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"&quot;page&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Page\">\n<div class=\"&quot;section&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;layoutArea&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;column&quot;\">\n<p>Apparently, the casting of a new Doctor will be announced \u201cin due course\u201d, and Whittaker says that she has no idea who her successor will be. But could Yaz be back alongside this new Time Lord?<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;page&quot;\" title=\"&quot;Page\">\n<div class=\"&quot;section&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;layoutArea&quot;\">\n<div class=\"&quot;column&quot;\">\n<p>\u201cNever say never,\u201d says Gill \u2013 though later, it seems clear she\u2019s expecting to hand in her TARDIS key alongside her co-star. \u201cWhen I started, I didn\u2019t realise how significant it was taking over from other people, but now it\u2019s happening to me. You\u2019re not part of it, in that you don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening. Who are the companions? What are they going to do? I\u2019m going to watch it, be nosey and think, \u2018How\u2019s it different to ours?\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Whittaker prepares to hang up her Who costume for good, she\u2019s starting to grapple with her legacy. \u201cThis job has been, and continues to be, just extraordinary. And the thing is, I know it doesn\u2019t end at the end anyway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause you\u2019re always the Doctor. You\u2019re always someone\u2019s Doctor, and what a wonderful thing and what a thing to treasure for ever. Frankly, I can dine out on this for ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doctor Who: Flux airs on BBC One on Sundays. 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