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The
much-loved BBC cult show will now also be streamed to audiences
outside the United Kingdom in a new collaboration between the
British broadcaster and Walt Disney Co's streaming service
Disney+.
The Rwandan-born Scottish actor, who shot to fame in Netflix
show "Sex Education", plays the latest incarnation of the Time
Lord in the new series, which also sees screenwriter and
producer Russell T Davies return as showrunner.
“It feels very much like a new era and a fresh era. So, it's a
really great point for people to jump on board to the show,"
Gatwa told Reuters at the series premiere in Los Angeles on
Wednesday night.
"We've got new villains and new monsters. The Doctor's a lot
more out of his depth than we've ever seen him before.”
The Doctor is able to regenerate, allowing different actors to
play the role since the series first aired in 1963.
“My approach was to watch, study all the past Doctors that have
been before, find out their weaknesses and how I can be better,"
Gatwa joked.
"No, I really wanted to immerse myself in the world of it all
and just understand what was unmistakably the doctor about each
of them and like what they brought individually to the role and
tried to see where I could fit in with that. I don't know
whether I've done that or not but we shall see.”
Actor Millie Gibson, known for British television soap
"Coronation Street", plays the Doctor's new companion Ruby
Sunday.
In the new series, the pair will head to the Regency era as well
as war-torn future worlds in their TARDIS, a time-travelling
craft in the shape of a police telephone box that famously looks
bigger on the inside than the outside.
“It's timeless. I mean, not only does the doctor regenerate, the
show regenerates with it and so does its audience,” Gibson said.
“Doctor Who” premieres on Disney+ on Friday and on the BBC on
Saturday.
(Reporting by Jorge Garcia; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian;
Editing by Andrew Heavens)
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