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But Rosa felt very special to all of us.” “You never want to appear as if the Doctor is getting credit for something that has nothing to do with them – it’s actually real people in history. “It was amazing to bring that story to a younger generation that might not have done it at school or who might know who Rosa Parks is but not the details. So to me that’s not political, that’s a fact,” Whittaker says. “Whichever angle you look at it, racism is horrific.

Whittaker bows out in The Power of The Doctor. Predictably, accusations of so-called ‘wokery’ followed (as though being loudly, proudly anti-racist is in some way controversial). Similarly Rosa saw the Doctor and her squad witnessing and safeguarding a pivotal moment in history. Demons of the Punjab was a history lesson about the partition of India, a reminder of the death toll and refugee crisis that followed, an intensely personal journey for Yaz, and one of the better episodes of recent years. Whittaker’s opening series took on big moments in history. And I feel I was given that opportunity, and that this show, at this time, represents everything I wanted it to be.” “But that was the overriding feeling of the Doctor I wanted to bring. But nevertheless, the Doctor was just the latest role in a fine career that had begun in earnest with Venus opposite Peter O’Toole in 2006, continued via brilliant, contrasting performances in The Night Watch for the BBC and cult hit film Attack the Block before her central role in Broadchurch, which became the most talked-about TV show of 2013. But when Whittaker first found out she would be taking over from Peter Capaldi back in 2017 it was, she admits, just a role. Now I’m on maternity leave, I’m a lady of leisure in absolute chaos.”ĭoctor Who is so many things to so many people. I knew I’d be in every scene, every single day, all the time, for a whole year. I just need to keep a better diary,” she says. “One of the best things about doing Doctor Who was that I knew where I had to be every day. That makes this an exit interview. And Whittaker is running late.

After an eventful five years – for Whittaker, for Doctor Who, and for the wider world – she is stepping away from the Tardis.

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