Your dream Thirteenth Doctor

[arch101]

Sean Pertwee would be great

 

[Nightowl1701]

Ruth Wilson. She's got great range and I think The Affair is wrapping up after next season.

Fan artist Paul Hanley called Ruth Wilson for a future Doctor a couple years ago, and I'm warming up to the idea. Recalls both Amy and Donna without actually being either, definitely has the acting range, and I can easily see the onscreen faceoff with Missy in my head...

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I love Paul Hanley's work for years (his multi-Doctor work is still my desktop wallpaper) and this is no exception. I would love Ruth Wilson as The Doctor.

 

[Ithekro]

Will the Thirteenth Doctor be crazy. Well in a different way from the generally mad Doctor.

 

[FreddyE]

Whoever the thirteenth doctor is, he should be something he hasn't been before. How about...fat...? ;-) Or a real muscle hunk...*drooool*. On the other hand...got this concept of a series in my head where the thirteenth Doctor is...not quite right regenerated and his apperance and character keeps randomly shifting between a handfull of new actors until finally settling onto one of those actors late in the series. What do you think about that idea?

 

[Captaindemotion]

^I've often wondered about a fat Doctor but given how much running about is currently required for the role, I tend to think it's a non-starter. Unless they allocate all that side of things to the sidekick.

 

[maneth]

Alexander Siddig, although they probably won't cast another man in his 50s right after Capaldi. That also rules out Paul McGann, even though I'd love to see more of the 8th Doctor's adventures.

Eddie Redmayne was amazing in A Brief History of Time, for which he rightly won an Academy Award, Jupiter Ascending notwithstanding. I could totally see him as a wacky Doctor.

 

[Venardhi]

^I've often wondered about a fat Doctor but given how much running about is currently required for the role, I tend to think it's a non-starter. Unless they allocate all that side of things to the sidekick.

Fat people can generally run for the 15 yards necessary for going in and/or out of frame. However, I don't think it suits the character to be particularly fat.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^ I wasn't referring to that so much as the fact that both Matt and Peter have attributed knee problems which they've recently had to all of the running about which they've done in the role. And they're lean and, in Matt's case, youthful. Heavier-set people are more susceptible to joint problems in areas like the knee, hip and ankle.

 

[PorthosShadow]

I'm still really taken with the idea of Hugh Grant.

 

[Starkers]

I think he'd have been good, my only issue would be whether he could have played the survivor's guilt Doctor that Eccleston essayed so well

 

[Venardhi]

^ I wasn't referring to that so much as the fact that both Matt and Peter have attributed knee problems which they've recently had to all of the running about which they've done in the role. And they're lean and, in Matt's case, youthful. Heavier-set people are more susceptible to joint problems in areas like the knee, hip and ankle.

I'm going to assume, and hope, they meant that as a joke. Pretty much any job more intensive than sitting at a desk all day is going to have more activity and physical stress than a few months a year of shooting Doctor Who.

 

[Green Lantern]

After seeing bits of War & Peace, I think Paul Dano would be an interesting Doctor. He has a strange look around him, more so than Matt Smith, but has doctory qualities, quite a posh voice for a start.

 

[Venardhi]

He is American though, no?