When Chibnall asked her to consider auditioning for him, Whittaker says: “I was like: ‘Can I play a monster with loads of prosthetics?’”
When Jodie Whittaker got the news some months ago that she had been cast as the protagonist of Doctor Who, she went through a range of overwhelmed reactions.
“I know I got the role on the merits,” Whittaker says more sternly. “I didn’t get handed it.
A change was long overdue, Chibnall says, for a character with the ability to shape-shift and regenerate in new forms.