Jodie Whittaker wants the Doctor to be a light in a cave

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Jodie Whittaker told Stylist magazine the appeal of her character, the Doctor:

“There are no rules. You’re an alien but you’re in a human body, so you can physically be anything. And that’s the thing about this character – it fizzes out to every part of your body in a way I’ve never experienced. You’re moving – either mentally or physically – constantly, so the energy that’s required gives you this massive adrenaline rush. I wanted to play this Doctor like a light going on in a cave for the first time, and the wonder that you find because every encounter is new: the friends, the worlds, the monsters – everything is new.”

“What an extraordinary thing [to be the first female Doctor]. Let it be a moment in history, but let it move forward to the extent that it never gets talked about… that’d be ace.”

Whittaker also opened up about her downtime on set. She would often need to wait in her trailer on the studio lot while the crew to made ready an elaborate set. Her time would be spent on WhatsApp, peeking at Bradley Walsh’s Instagram antics and calling friends at inappropriate hours due to her late work hours.

“and then suddenly it’s like, ‘Go, go, go!’ and you’ve got to be immediately on it.”

The BBC recently released a video showing the thirteenth Doctor symbolically shattering a glass ceiling. Whittaker speaks of her own ceiling.

“Now I have put a little chink in my ceiling I feel like the possibilities are endless. I would love to be in a Western. Shows like Godless and Westworld are extraordinary, I love those ensemble casts where every role is meaty and rich. Doctor Who is a huge box ticked for me, but would I want this to be the only time I tick a box? No.”

Jodie Whittaker is set to shatter stereotypical representations of the Doctor with the worldwide television premiere of  Doctor Who on October 7.