Fans have been very receptive to Doctor Who‘s Fifteenth Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa. But sometimes they wonder why he cries so much.
Some fans have speculated that the Doctor’s tears are part of a bigger plot. But Davies said it is all from Gatwa, not the script. “You don’t tell an actor whether to cry, not to cry, not an actor of that stature. Absolutely not,” he said. “It’s like, you wouldn’t tell anyone to laugh or not to laugh! It’s [a] beautiful thing he does, and it’s a completely new thing for the Doctor, that opens doorways into whole new experiences.”
“Diversity is many things, and sometimes it’s putting emotions on screen you haven’t seen before, or that the Doctor has withheld himself from,” he added. Gatwa marked a turning point for Doctor Who in terms of diversity, as he was the first Black full-time Doctor on the show. (Actor Jo Martin played a “hidden” version of the Doctor during the Jodie Whittaker era.)
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“We also got on really well when we first worked together,” Gatwa added. “It was exciting as well. I felt a bit like a kid – you know when you show your friend, your favorite film, and you talk all the way throughout it, telling them ‘This is going to happen’ and ‘This is going to happen,’ so it felt like that – it was a very excitable time. It was such an excitable energy in the air from everyone.”
