Jodie Whittaker acknowledged that the role in Doctor Who resembled any other role she’s ever played and explained why she is now pursuing a completely different one in Frauds.
Jodie Whittaker has admitted that the role of Doctor Who was more like herself any other part she has ever played. The acclaimed actress, 43, was the first, and so far, only woman to play the titular Time Lord in the BBC sci-fi series before going on to star in prison drama Time, and as Netflix hit Toxic Town, and will soon be seen in the ITV drama Frauds.
The forthcoming show features Jodie alongside former Coronation Street star Suranne Jones, who created the show the show with Anne-Marie O’Connor, as a pair of female fraudsters named Bert and Sam, whose poisonous yet wickedly amusing bond is reignited to execute the ultimate robbery.
However, Jodie, who has switched from her traditional blonde locks to an auburn look this time around, insisted that “unexpectedly” the character she could relate to most was the mysterious doctor, who travels through time and space.
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She continued, “It’s intentional, but it’s all that comes with being lucky enough to work.” In that sense, I’ve been sent something, you know, so what a gift.
The fact that Suranne and Anne-Marie see me as that person makes them feel that way. I’m nothing like Sam in real life, because really. And with the difficulty that I have, especially given that Suranne is Northern and has peroxide blonde hair.
What am I doing, I asked myself? I thought, “Oh wow! !” I would always think, “Oh, she’s in the wrong costume,” when the stunt doubles arrived on set. The blonde one is not me, I told myself.
I thought I was lucky because I believed I had been given the task.
“I believe it was done out of curiosity, but only because… Someone will think of me outside of this situation. But strangely, The Doctor is like the most I’ve ever played to myself, in my opinion.
Jodie, who took over the role from Peter Capaldi and was then replaced by Ncuti Gatwa, insisted that she is “more closely” related to her portrayal of the character than anything else, and that she is “more closely” related to it than anything else.
Like, I’d like to say that I’m more in tune with my Doctor than anything else.
“Which is why, like Chris [Chibnall, then-showrunner] cast me in it, is because of the personality I am in between scenes on Broadchurch, he was like, ‘Ah, be that little hyperactive, unfocused human. Anything else, I’m like ‘This is a world away from me!”‘
Frauds airs on ITV1 and ITVX on Sunday, October 5 at 9 p.m.
Source: Mirror
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