The next Doctor Who could be a Grandad if the show’s new boss gets his way.
Steven Moffat thinks his ideal Time Lord would be over 40 and more like a grandfather than a young actor.
Speculation over who the new Doctor will be has intensified since David Tennant revealed that he is quitting after filming next year’s four specials.
Moffat — who will take over from RTD — said: “Although I loved Peter Davison and Paul McGann, probably the best two actors in the role, I don’t think young, dashing Doctors are right at all.
“He should be 40-plus and weird-looking — the kind of wacky grandfather kids know on sight to be secretly one of them.”
Veteran TV writer Moffat, 47, told the show’s magazine in 1999 that the best actor to play the role would already be famous, adding: “Any actor with the ‘right stuff’ is unlikely to be a complete unknown.”
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6 comments:
Moffat said that in 1999, so after the success of Tennant (and 9 years later) he could change his opinion very easily.
I would like to see an older Doctor, as I said before Tennant was a kids Doctor but he did get some pretty awsome story lines. Midnight in my opinion would have suited an actor with more age. I can imagine Eccleston doing a mindblowing performance there but back to the point I have faith that Moffat will choose the right someone, he seems to understand all things whovian better than RTD ever did.
As noted those comments were from 1999. Less than three months ago he said that there'd never be a Doctor over 40 again.
Well, if SM wants someone over 40, a weird looking grandfather than what do you think about Bernard Cribbins, playing Wilfred, Donna's "gramps". I know, it would be an amazing storyline, weird, wibbely wobbely timey wimey stuff. I think SM would like it;) I know it's a crazy idea, and it will never happen,... but it's a nice crazy idea ;)
Got it! It Alan Rickman!!!
Ah well, I can dream....
Doh the doctor could be middge age doctor but young actors must play the doctor by age 18 20 33 or whatever ages for person who play the doctor by their age but not old age.
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