Ncuti Gatwa is the 15th Doctor

[publiusr]

Finally!

You can see his outfit from the promo photos peeking out at the bottom. He was apparently shooting yesterday in a different outfit but no one got a photo.

Here’s a guess of how they may introduce him…as a passerby no one pays attention to?

Street clothes…unassuming…then-bang! Out comes the sonic’ and he saves the day.

 

[Rich Watson]

Action!

 

[Rich Watson]

Very 1970s.

 

[CuriousCaitian]

Shaft/Doctor Who crossover confirmed. :-p

 

[Rich Watson]

Given his real-life love of fashion I had a feeling he wouldn't stick to one outfit. I'm gussing they'll all have a lot of brown and orange in them as a unifying theme.

 

[Samurai8472]

Action!

River Song- You watch us run!

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Can't shake those Rose Tyler vibes.

 

[Rich Watson]

The big question is, has anyone told Lenny Henry that Ncuti stole his look?

 

[Rich Watson]

Gotta get those stretches in for all the running you'll be doing.

 

[Rich Watson]

This wasn't the Star Wars crossover I was expecting...

 

[Starkers]

Speaking as a middle aged white guy (and thus not knowing what the hell I'm talking about) I can't decide if the Shaft vibe is incredibly cool, or more than a little reductive.

I'm going to assume Ncuti is absolutely fine with it and therefore go with it being cool AF!

I continue to dig the moustache as well.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

The big question is, has anyone told Lenny Henry that Ncuti stole his look?

Stumbled upon this in Youtube the other day. Even has the mustache.

 

[publiusr]

That explains everything.

 

[Qonundrum]

The big question is, has anyone told Lenny Henry that Ncuti stole his look?

Or Martha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Jones
(or Image search engines that reveal a near-identical palette... it's still better than watching "1975 shag carpet sweater with plaid puke overload" that was Ncuti's previous costume... )

 

[Qonundrum]

Stumbled upon this in Youtube the other day. Even has the mustache.

"The Lenny Henry Show" (1985) was pretty solid at times. Including that DW skit.

 

[Samurai8472]

The drones have invaded the TARDIS! Drones will be used in interior shots of the TARDIS

https://cultbox.co.uk/news/doctor-who-60th-anniversary-and-series-14-filming-update

 

[Captaindemotion]

Rolling Stone has a big feature on Ncuti https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/ncuti-gatwa-interview-doctor-who-barbie-31011/

 

[Rich Watson]

So confirmation that there will be enough time after Series Two for him to go back to the theater. Unless he really is two and done...

Kinda wish I had stopped reading before he starts going on about Astrology as if it wasn't a big pile of crap, though.

 

[The Wormhole]

My attention drifted around the part where they start talking about Barbie. Though these two quotes from the portion of the interview I did read are great and really funny quotes:

In 2016, he was in A Midsummer Night’s Dream — his favourite Shakespeare play — at the Globe. “I love that it’s about fairies and lovers,” he says. “And, of course, it’s so sexual! We give this to kids in schools and you’re worried about drag queens?"

It’s not the most comfortable thought to know that my mum knows what my cum face looks like

I also think it's neat that he's going to channel his experience as a refugee into his performance as the Doctor.

 

[Rich Watson]

Unsurprisingly, Ncuti's role in 'Barbie' is pretty brief but given that it's on track to be (at minimum) in the Top 5 movies of the year, it should still give a nice bit of free publicity.

Especially if the claims that something was shot at the Pink TARDIS early on the day it was at Tower Bridge are true.