It’s been just over a month now since Jodie Whittaker was revealed to be Peter Capaldi’s successor in Doctor Who. Since then, we’ve also seen her in the BBC drama Trust Me, and with that out of the way, she begins filming Doctor Who in earnest before the end of the year.

She’s been chatting about the role in a new interview with Rolling Stone, where she admitted that she knew in March that she’d landed the role of the Time Lord. “The morning of the reveal”, she recalled, “I was just walking about my street, thinking, ‘oh this is so weird. Right now, I’m completely anonymous. I’ve got four hours time’”.

She added that “a moment like this of being the first woman cast as something, it makes you really think about your sex, whereas actually what you want to do is play a part where your gender is irrelevant”.

“I am a woman, so I don’t need to play that. And so for me, this was the most freeing experience because there’s no right or wrong way to do it. The rules went out the window”.

The full piece with Rolling Stone is here.