Millie Gibson is Ruby Sunday

[Captaindemotion]

I guess I’m on someone’s mute list

 

[Mr. Adventure]

How do you even define "Doctor vibes," though? The whole point is that each one is different. It's a classic example of a character being shaped by the actors who play the role.

Can only speak for myself but we've had 13+ of them so far. I'd say you want quirkiness, irascibility, a touch of arrogance, someone who can invoke a sense of authority, and so on. Again, only speaking for myself and I was sure to say "yet", I haven't actually seen him in character.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

i made a comparison of the TARDIS in the background because some people wondered if this is already a new TARDIS prop in the promotion images.
It‘s hard to tell because of the out of focus shot on the right and different lighting.
But I think it‘s still the same TARDIS as Jodie‘s.

Are the windows the same size?

 

[Nerys Myk]

I blame the different hair and eyebrow colors thanks to the bleach.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

^ Billie did have that dark eyebrows and blonde hair with dark roots look

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Are the windows the same size?

Yeah. The proportions look identical to me.
Right one is more blurry , so the light is washing out the frame.

 

[Christopher]

Can only speak for myself but we've had 13+ of them so far. I'd say you want quirkiness, irascibility, a touch of arrogance, someone who can invoke a sense of authority, and so on.

I wouldn't say Two, Four, or Five were irascible, as a rule, nor Ten, Eleven, or Thirteen. And I wouldn't call Two, Five, or Thirteen arrogant.

Like I said, the fun of the character is that each actor makes the Doctor their own. It defeats the purpose to want the Doctor to conform to a template. The one common thread is that each actor has a very strong, distinct personality and presence.

 

[Rich Watson]

Two weeks or less until they start shooting so we'll see what box they're actually using then. My one wish is that they change the black door plate back to a white one.

 

[Redfern]

I keep perceiving the name in print and posts "Millie Gibson" as "Mel Gibson"...which results in some very strange mental images!

 

[Christopher]

I keep perceiving the name in print and posts "Millie Gibson" as "Mel Gibson"...which results in some very strange mental images!

I've had the same first impression when glancing past this thread's title.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I'm not surprised at all that former Coronation Street writer RTD went for a Corrie cast member. He's done that several times. Heck, so has Chibnall. From https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Coronation_Street:

• Suranne Jones, Bruno Langley, Helen Worth, Gray O'Brien, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Shobna Gulati, Michelle Collins, and Ian McKellen are among the most notable Doctor Who actors to have appeared in the soap.
• Katherine Kelly also rose to fame through her six-year run (2006-2012) on the soap as Becky McDonald. Kelly briefly appeared as Becky in Dermot and the Doctor, 5 years before taking on the role of Miss Quill in Class.

And of course there's a great big Red Dwarf connection, as Craig Charles was a regular on Corrie for a few years, which led to a sort of crossover in Red Dwarf: Back to Earth.

For the benefit of Americans and Canadians who've never seen Coronation Street, it's not like American soaps. It started basically as part of the British kitchen sink drama trend, focusing on working class northerners instead of posh Londoners. I've been watching it for ages because my wife was a big fan and the woman in my life before her made me watch it with her at least once, so I figured I might as well give in. Like Doctor Who and a lot of other British things, it's noticeably more popular here in Canada than in the US. It can have some over the top storylines, and it's amazing how many characters have affairs or end up in prison at some point, but it can also be laugh-out-loud funny pretty often, and occasionally quite moving, like with the death of Julie Hesmondhalgh's character, and for that matter the early days of her relationship with the character Roy Cropper (Hesmondhalgh's character Hayley was a sympathetic trans character on a popular TV series more than twenty years ago, though Hesmondhalgh herself is cis female.) They also have fun referring to other shows; the shot of Millie Gibson cosplaying is from an episode where a younger character wants a Star Trek-themed birthday party, but they've had lots of Doctor Who references. Heck, Mary Tamm (Romana) made a one-shot appearance as a woman who walks into the corner shop looking for the latest issue of Canine Weekly (think about it), years after she played another character on the show.

As for Millie Gibson, her character is the orphaned teenage daughter of a gangster, who ends up being cared for by the man who killed her father (he's usually a good guy until they need an edgier storyline). Her character grows quite a bit over the years, so Gibson's played pretty much every kind of emotional state. That may be part of the reason soap actors are popular with Doctor Who producers. They've demonstrated they can play comic scenes and much heavier material.

Blimey - this tweeter is trying to post a full list of everyone who’s been in both DW and Eastenders! https://twitter.com/no1shalkafan/status/1594276815744499712?s=46&t=7rRieb3tQ0DAUnsHZR1rVA

 

[Saul]

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Those guys are magic together. Can't wait to see that transferred to onscreen.

 

[Samurai8472]

With such a name like "Ruby Sunday" it has to be an anagram for The Rani.

All these years of making jokes about the Rani appearing I have to believe with RTD now back at the helm we might finally get traction.

 

[Christopher]

With such a name like "Ruby Sunday" it has to be an anagram for The Rani.

It's no weirder a name than "Amy Pond."

Sunday is a real surname of Anglo-Saxon origin, apparently a place name for families that lived near sandy soil. So there's no reason there couldn't be a British woman named Ruby Sunday.

Also, it's not an anagram if it doesn't have the same letters. To be an anagram of The Rani, she'd have to be named something like Rhea Tin, Eni Hart, or T.A. Rhine.

 

[matthunter]

With such a name like "Ruby Sunday" it has to be an anagram for The Rani.

All these years of making jokes about the Rani appearing I have to believe with RTD now back at the helm we might finally get traction.

RTD created a character CALLED Rani who wasn't THE Rani. He MADE the jokes!

 

[Sketcher]

Ruby Sunday is clearly a Timeless Child Doctor in hiding. You thought the arc was over....you were WRONG.

 

[The Wormhole]

Ruby Sunday is clearly Romana. I have spoken.

I keep perceiving the name in print and posts "Millie Gibson" as "Mel Gibson"...which results in some very strange mental images!

I've already mistakenly called her Mel Gibson a few times when talking about her in the real world.

 

[Nerys Myk]

^ Billie did have that dark eyebrows and blonde hair with dark roots look

Yes, but I don't see why it matters.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Yes, but I don't see why it matters.

I figured they were saying it was pertinent in why Millie might remind one of Billie.

 

[Starkers]

My first thought was that she'll be from a a future dystopian time when people don't know their parents and are assigned a surname based on the day they're born. Then I remembered this is RTD and I realised Ruby will be an ordinary girl from present day London with a horrible mother and an absent or ineffectual father.