{"id":607116,"date":"2026-04-26T08:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T08:15:12","slug":"doctor-whos-peter-capaldi-defends-ncuti-gatwa-jodie-whittaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/607116\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi Defends Ncuti Gatwa, Jodie Whittaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNearly a decade after his run as the Twelfth Doctor ended, Peter Capaldi<\/a> is defending his fellow Time Lords in the Doctor Who<\/a> franchise.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Oscar-winning actor recently called out fans who take the BBC show \u201cso seriously,\u201d expressing his support for successors Jodie Whittaker<\/a> and Ncuti Gatwa<\/a>, who played the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Doctors.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt reflects its times and it\u2019s a good thing in the world, though it\u2019s become a bit too big, too important for the BBC or whoever. When I was a kid and watched it, it was just a monster show in the corner of the room,\u201d Capaldi told The Times<\/a>. \u201cI dunno why people take it so seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing Capaldi\u2019s three-season run as The Doctor from 2014 to 2017, Whittaker took over the role until 2022. While her casting as the first female Doctor ruffled some feathers, the actress said, \u201cThere needed to be a first<\/a> and I didn\u2019t fully appreciate it. I\u2019m not like Jack Lemmon in Some Like It Hot: \u2018I\u2019m a girl, I\u2019m a girl!\u2019 I just am. But once it was announced \u2014 as well as a few grumpy pumps \u2014 for a lot of people it felt like a really wonderful moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGatwa became the first Black Doctor when he took over in the Disney+ Doctor Who refresh, which lasted for two seasons before ending last May. It\u2019s believed that MAGA backlash played into Disney\u2019s decision<\/a> not to renew for a third season.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe actor explained that as a Rwandan immigrant, landing the role of The Doctor felt \u201cjust really powerful<\/a>,\u201d explaining that the show is rooted \u201cso deep in British culture,\u201d especially \u201cfor people of color, for marginalized people who really gravitate towards the show because it\u2019s about friendship and it\u2019s about adventure and it\u2019s about union and unity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tExecutive producer and showrunner Russell T. Davies has said he has \u201cno time<\/a>\u201d for critics of the show\u2019s inclusivity<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t have a second to bear [it]. Because what you might call diversity, I just call an open door,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly a decade after his run as the Twelfth Doctor ended, Peter Capaldi is defending his fellow Time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,127416,88,263872,263873,81912,110249],"class_list":["post-607116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-doctor-who","tag-entertainment","tag-inclusivity","tag-jodie-whittaker","tag-ncuti-gatwa","tag-peter-capaldi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}