Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor

[burrunjor]

Sept 28, 2022 14:38:20 GMT zarius said:

Nctui featured in Time magazine!

Russel wrote a puff piece on him

The man is like a thunderbolt, and he keeps winning new ground: Ncuti Gatwa’s creation of Eric Effiong in Netflix’s Sex Education went soaring around the world. The character of the gay sidekick is meant to stay in the shadows. Not Eric! He strutted in, stole the spotlight, and I think a gracious, awestruck cast simply stood back and allowed him the room.

I’d watched him onscreen, and thought I had the measure of him, until he walked into the room for Doctor Who audition. Bang! Thunderbolt. And bear in mind, for U.K. TV, the part of the Doctor is the Crown Jewels, it’s history, it’s tradition, it’s … Oh, sod that, I said, and threw it at him.

He’s conquered the world. Now all of time and space is his.

time.com/collection/time100-next-2022/6213724/ncuti-gatwa/

Jesus Christ almighty! They really shouldn't hype it up to that extent. It just looks like overcompensating. At least he didn't say he reached a climax like in the previous interview. 

PS I wish I could be a reporter and ask him about Neil Patrick Harris and his corpse cake fetish just to see how RTD would handle that in real life when he couldn't block someone LOL. 

[zarius]

Ncuti answers questions and discusses the places he'd like to visit and the foes he'd face

[zarius]

[UncleDeadly]

Oct 25, 2022 14:31:25 GMT zarius said:

Ncuti answers questions and discusses the places he'd like to visit and the foes he'd face

If i wanted to listen to an imbecile who knows nothing about Doctor Who witter on about Doctor Who i'd have stayed on Gallifrey Base...

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Bring back Whittaker. She's been gone for too long.

[iank]

To be fair, he seems like a nice guy who wants people to like him.
That's a step up from "f*ck you, the show was sexist until me, go away if you don't like it" Jodie.

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I've nothing against him. As you say, he comes across like a nice guy. I saw his response to McCoy's message to him and he seemed really respectful of the role and excited to play it.

[burrunjor]

Oct 27, 2022 20:57:22 GMT iank said:

To be fair, he seems like a nice guy who wants people to like him.
That's a step up from "f*ck you, the show was sexist until me, go away if you don't like it" Jodie.

Remember though women never did anything until Jodie though so you have to give her that.

[ClockworkOcean]

Seriously? This is just how it's going to be from now on, is it? Well, NuWho can f*ck right off. I will absolutely not be referring to the Doctor as "they/them". The fact that we're now expected to discuss "them" with plural pronouns serves only to highlight how fundamentally NuWho has broken any sense of the Doctor as a singular, cohesive character. If this is RTD in damage control mode, I dread to think what it's going to be like once the inevitable Tennant ratings boost sends his ego into overdrive.

[burrunjor]

May 8, 2022 18:10:53 GMT RobFilth said:

You gotta feel sorry for the guy, his careers barely started and Fatheads assigned him as his new twink complete with shit scripts and dumb deux ex machinas.

[zarius]

Ncuti interview with Rolling Stone

“This person survived a genocide. This person fits in everywhere and nowhere. I am the Doctor. The Doctor is me. I decided that I had to get this role,” says Gatwa.

He does seem to miss the smaller-scale work that theatre afforded him. “It kept me warm and it held me all night, even if I was broke. But I’m planning on getting back to it next year, after I finish season two of Doctor Who,” he says.

Gatwa’s stage roles are just as impressive as his screen credits. 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?”

“I’m the first Black man to play this character. The British press can be very mean,” he says of the reaction to his casting. But Gatwa is determined to remain steadfast in the face of criticism. “I just have to focus on the job and stay true to what the Doctor is: a mad scientist alien who has adventures and cares about everyone,” he says.

“I love Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor’s, outfits. Lovely velvet jackets and frilly shirts. I feel a connection to him, our Doctors are the only two who dress like sluts,” he laughs.

www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/ncuti-gatwa-interview-doctor-who-barbie-31011/

[burrunjor]

Okay I'll admit I shouldn't have made the joke in this thread about Gutwa being a casting couch situation. That was inappropriate and mean to Gatwa so I apologise sincerely and won't ever make a joke like that again.

[billpatjontom]

Apparently, according to a recent Radio Times article I saw mentioned on the internet, Ncuti Gatwa has now described Doctor Who as a series about "kindness and acceptance".

This doesn't bode well. Of course, I admit I don't know yet how he is likely to play the role. I can't imagine he could be any worse than Jodie though so I do wish him well and even hope he can make a success of it. The problem is that I simply do not agree Who is about what he seems to think it is about. I suspect his attitude here is merely a reflection of the current agenda so typical of modern BBC.

To me, Who is not really about kindness and acceptance. Rather, it is about menacing monsters and villains and eccentric but courageous heroes battling against the odds in fantastic adventures. It very much involves danger and humour and it's about the imagination of horror and science fiction concepts. It's about scientists and evil tyrants and certainly it is about good versus evil.

It seems to me that the makers of the modern series continue to wilfully ignore just what the original series was actually about and just why it used to work so well. This is astonishing really especially considering that so many of them (RTD being an obvious example) profess to be fans of the original series yet repeatedly fail to replicate the essence of why the original series remains such a classic.

[iank]

(insert eye-rolling emoji here)

[burrunjor]

Jul 23, 2023 14:21:01 GMT billpatjontom said:

Apparently, according to a recent Radio Times article I saw mentioned on the internet, Ncuti Gatwa has now described Doctor Who as a series about "kindness and acceptance".

This doesn't bode well. Of course, I admit I don't know yet how he is likely to play the role. I can't imagine he could be any worse than Jodie though so I do wish him well and even hope he can make a success of it. The problem is that I simply do not agree Who is about what he seems to think it is about. I suspect his attitude here is merely a reflection of the current agenda so typical of modern BBC.

To me, Who is not really about kindness and acceptance. Rather, it is about menacing monsters and villains and eccentric but courageous heroes battling against the odds in fantastic adventures. It very much involves danger and humour and it's about the imagination of horror and science fiction concepts. It's about scientists and evil tyrants and certainly it is about good versus evil.

It seems to me that the makers of the modern series continue to wilfully ignore just what the original series was actually about and just why it used to work so well. This is astonishing really especially considering that so many of them (RTD being an obvious example) profess to be fans of the original series yet repeatedly fail to replicate the essence of why the original series remains such a classic.

Bingo. 

I see all of these people going on about the Doctor like he is leader of some 60s hippie cult, about how he embodies kindness and love and I'm thinking WHAT! PS I'm not making fun of these fans. There was one girl I knew, who was a big who fan, but had only seen the revival. She went on about how special DW was because it was the first sci fi show to embrace love. Now I cannot stress this enough. This girl was f*cking lovely as can be. She was one of the nicest human beings I have ever had the fortune to meet. She was a Ducky of Duckies. She doesn't have a bad atom in her body, never mind bone. If you met her you'd want to hug her she was so precious LOL. She also was NOT a fool either. Hell she had ten times the wisdom I'll ever have.

Still again as much as I love her, I think it's funny to see how the generation raised on RTD's vision have such a distorted view of the character. The Doctor was actually quite a cynical, unlikely hero. He was selfish, arrogant, he absolutely was ruthless, he wasn't even really a hero, IE unlike Batman he wasn't on a mission to save the universe. He was kind of a waster LOL, who couldn't be arsed with a job on Gallifrey, so stole a time machine to live life on his own terms and stumbled into being a hero because underneath all his negative traits he was a good man. Still even then he had to be forced into being a hero many times even in the Tom Baker era like the Key to Time. 

That's what made him so refreshing growing up compared to the other American heroes like Buffy, Spider-Man and Captain Kirk and it could be both funny to see this guy who was a bit of an asshole, still be a hero underneath, yet also aided the horror and adventure as the Doctors ruthlessness could allow him to go on really dark adventures like Pyramids of Mars. 

Again and oldie but a goodie, but this really demonstrates what type of hero the classic Doctor was. 




PS I wish he hadn't used Eminem for that. Please everyone who watches it, mute the video and play these two songs. I f*cking HATE Eminem with a firey vengeance. I can't stand the idea of promoting him LOL. 






Those go so much better with DW. There are far Queen fans who are classic who fans than Eminem fans. Hell Freddie if he had been an actor, back in his 70s phase with long hair would have been a great Doctor.