Doctor Who’s Jodie Whittaker Filmed Her Goodbye, But Not Met Next Doctor

It’s the top of an period for Doctor Who, even when we’d not see the ramifications of it for fairly some time. Jodie Whittaker, the thirteenth Doctor, has filmed the finish of her time as a Time Lord—however she doesn’t count on to know her alternative for some time.

Earlier this week, the BBC formally confirmed that each Whittaker and Mandip Gil, who performs companion Yaz on the sequence, had wrapped filming on the present. While this might’ve simply been for the upcoming season, Doctor Who: Flux, talking on The Graham Norton Show the actress confirmed that her half of her regeneration had additionally been filmed. This additionally signifies that Whittaker has completed filming the sequence of specials set to air throughout 2022, leaving the trail ahead to a brand new showrunner and 14th Doctor within the yr of Who’s sixtieth anniversary. “They are never going to tell me who it is [that’s replacing me],” Whittaker mentioned on the speak present (by way of Radio Times). But whereas she’s not met the brand new Doctor, she has certainly mentioned farewell to her personal. “We filmed some scenes [for the regeneration], but the new Doctor wasn’t there,” Whittaker continued. “I wasn’t there for Peter [Capaldi], and I only met him months later when I passed him in the street!”

One Doctor Who crew and an actor filming one aspect of a Doctor’s regeneration, and one other with a brand new actor filming the opposite months later, will not be unusual within the sci-fi sequence historical past, particularly when an actor’s exit coincides with a brand new showrunner and manufacturing group shifting in. As Whittaker herself famous, her aspect of the regeneration from the twelfth Doctor was shot effectively after Capaldi had shot his personal sequence; a separate group from Steven Moffat’s manufacturing group got here in to shoot Matt Smith’s first scene as the Doctor throughout David Tennant’s farewell. Quite infamously, Colin Baker’s dismissal because the Sixth Doctor result in the actor refusing to return to movie his regeneration in “Time and The Rani,” resulting in an… unconvincing disguise for incoming Doctor Sylvester McCoy.

So whereas it’s commonplace, it’s nonetheless the start of an finish for Doctor Who’s present period. Doctor Who season 13, titled Doctor Who: Flux, will start on October 30 on BBC One and BBC America—with the six-part sequence confirmed this week by the BBC to have been penned nearly totally by outgoing showrunner Chris Chibnall, with episode 4 co-written by “The Haunting of Villa Diodati” scribe Maxine Alderton. Returning director Jamie Magnus Stone and Azhur Saleem directed the sequence.

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