Russell T Davies on the casting of Jodie Whittaker, and the source of most Doctor Who leaks…
Russell T Davies continues to promote the newly-released Now We Are Six Hundred, the book of Time Lord poetry that’s been penned by James Goss, and illustrated by Davies himself. And his latest interview stop has been the Radio Times, where he’s been talking about Jodie Whittaker’s casting in Doctor Who, and also, where leaks of news come from.
Davies is long known to be a fan of Whittaker in the role – “it was amazing”, he said of the announcement – but also reckoned he’d guessed. “I didn’t know, but her name did start hitting the papers that day, and when a name hits the papers like that out of the blue you think ‘someone, someone’s blabbed, someone somewhere, an agent’”.
He explored that further, pointing to where the bulk of Doctor Who leaks come from. “It’s always a lad in the agent’s office. That’s where every leak comes from – not the agent themselves, but someone doing the photocopying. So I kind of thought someone’s kind of let something slip there by mistake”.
He reiterated, though, that the casting was “brilliant”. Whittaker is shortly to start filming work on the new series of the show, too…