“I’m doing fine. I just need to keep a better diary.” Jodie Whittaker forgot all about her planned interview with The Big Issue. But fear not. We tracked her down.
“I should have come up with a really cool excuse, like some rock and roll thing I was doing. But alas, no,” Whittaker says.
“One of the best things about doing Doctor Who was that I knew where I had to be every day. I knew I’d be in every scene, every single day, all the time, for a whole year. So I never had to write anything down. Now I’m on maternity leave, I’m a lady of leisure in absolute chaos.”
Doctor Who is so many things to so many people. But when Whittaker first found out she would be taking over from Peter Capaldi back in 2017 it was, she admits, just a role. A big one. But nevertheless, the Doctor was just the latest role in a fine career that had begun in earnest with Venus opposite Peter O’Toole in 2006, continued via brilliant, contrasting performances in The Night Watch for the BBC and cult hit film Attack the Block before her central role in Broadchurch, which became the most talked-about TV show of 2013.
Whittaker knows better now. “It’s so much more than a role. It’s a whole world. And it’s
