— How do you keep going?
— For days like this, Ruby Sunday.
DOCTOR WHO — SPACE BABIES (S40E01)
››› Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor
››› Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday
GUYS! It's DOCTOR WHO WEEK! What? What?! Whaaaaat!?! I cannot wait, oh my God. So here's my reference designs for Fifteen and Ruby in space babies! I wonder what these are for...
Excerpt from Benjamin Cook's set report in DWM 599:
It is exciting. The man in the spotlight – Doctor Who’s fifteenth lead, can you believe that? – has starred in Netflix’s Sex Education (as gay teen Eric Effiong) and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie (Ncuti played Ken – just Ken). And David – the Fourteenth Doctor (anywhere else he’d be a Ten) – is in love with Ncuti already. They met a couple of weeks back, at a stunt rehearsal for the Toymaker’s game of catch.
“Ncuti’s lovely. He’s enthusiastic. He’s up for it,” David tells me. “I also get the sense that he knows what he wants to do with the part. He’s very talented, so it’s going to be a joy to get to play with him; to not have to regenerate and then shuffle off the set, to get out of the way for the new guy. What an extra treat.”
David is an old hand (severed, and preserved in a jar) at regeneration. But bi-generation? That’s uncharted territory. For both Doctors. “I’ve never bi-generated before,” whispers Ncuti.
“Neither have I,” whispers back David, smiling. “Are you feeling all right?”
“Yes. Well, nervous. I’m just nervous,” says Ncuti.
“You don’t need to be,” says David, reassuringly, overlooking the fact that Ncuti appears to have arrived on set sans trousers. He’s in just his shirt and undies. (Is it a wardrobe malfunction? Did he forget his kit? Or did he not get the memo? We’ll find out.)
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I see how protective you lot are on social media. I see it. Me and Millie had this conversation in the cast tent the other day about how protective you guys are, and it’s really not unnoticed. It’s very noticed and we love you for it.