Actor David Bradley on the 2017 Dr. Who Christmas Special.
After first portraying William Hartnell back in 2013 in an Adventure In Space And Time, the story behind the creation of Doctor Who, David Bradley is set to reprise his role of the first Doctor in the forthcoming Doctor Who Christmas Special alongside Peter Capaldi in what will be Capaldi’s final episode as the current Doctor before regenerating into Jodie Whittaker.
With the considerable press coverage concerning the casting of the first ever female Doctor, Bradley recently revealed how he and Capaldi’s Doctor will differ in their attitudes towards women at the recent London Film & Comic-Con;
“What we did emphasise was the old fashioned nature and how he is from the ’60s. He goes into the Twelfth Doctor’s Tardis and says ‘it’s a bit dusty around here, it’s in an awful state isn’t it? Where’s Polly? Shouldn’t she give it a spring clean?’ And then Peter’s saying ‘you can’t say that’.”
The actor went on to say how he’d be playing his version of the Doctor;
“(He) brings all his 60s sensibilities, what’s lovingly called casual chauvinism. He’s just talking [as if] the companions are there just to help out and do the dusting and do all the domestic chores – his attitudes to a lot of things come right from the ’60s, so there’s a lot of conflict between Hartnell’s Doctor and Peter’s Doctor about how things have changed in the last 50 years… we had quite a bit of fun with that.”
Sounds intriguing. We look forward to seeing this interesting subject matter play out and we are hopeful we get more than just a fleeting glance at Whittaker’s Doctor this Christmas, after bidding fair well to Doctor No.12, the man with the “attack eyebrows”.