The announcement of the new actor who will lend his features to the Doctor from the famous series Doctor Who a lot of very heated debates on Twitter. If the Doctor has two hearts, some fans prove by their reaction that they have none. Explanation.
Doctor Who: a controversial nomination
A few weeks ago, we announced which actor had been; chosen to play the Doctor in the next season of the British series, as a replacement for Jodie Whittakerwho has already three seasons at; his assets: it is the actor Ncuti Gatwa who was selected. He is best known for his role as Eric Effiong, Otis’ gay best friend in the Sex Education series. Since this announcement, social networks have been flooded with messages to; both supportive of the actor but also hateful. Many criticize a certain complacency of the BBC wishing simply to put a minority; forward rather than “a good actor”, sometimes with messages tinged with racism.
The future is here; ! Ncuti Gatwa is the doctor.
Sometimes horrible words that had a significant impact on Ncuti Gatwa. It is another actor who reports these words to us, in the person of Simu Liu. The actor playing Shang-Chi is currently filming Greta Gerwing’s Barbie movie alongside Ncuti Gatwa. He spoke on the microphone of the media Variety. If at the beginning, he explains that he was surprised to hear the news while Gatwa remained very discreet at the time. about this, he also told that the actor has taken security measures; important to him and his family since the announcement was made. made:
He didn’t say anything to him. nobody. The announcement was made during the weekend, and when we went working on Mondays, we were like: “How long have you been keeping ça to yourself?!” He replied, “Two months.” […] We also learned that he had to hire security services, not only around the place where; it resides, but also around the places where it lives; all his family live.”
Doctor Who: a security reinforced
Thus new Doctor Who actor genuinely fears for his life and safety as well as those of his family members. Most likely he has already received multiple death threats leading to this decision, unfortunately it is impossible for us to know more until what Ncuti Gatwa speaks to; this topic. Fortunately, the latter represent a minority; and most fans warmly applauded the 29-year-old British actor’s appointment to the helm of this cult English TV role.
Season 14 will also see the return of Russel T. Davies, the cult showrunner of the return of Doctor Who on the small screen. As she begins filming now, we will get to see Ncuti Gatwa in theaters sooner in the Barbie movie, alongside a full cast. crazy, including -among others- Margot Robbie in the title role, but also Ryan Gosling, America Ferrara, Simu Liu as well as Scott Evans, younger brother of Chris Evans playing Steve Rogers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The film will be the first film based on on the range of dolls of the same name of the company; Mattel turned in live action after numerous feature films and animated series.