Jodie Whittaker has admitted that the role of Doctor Who was more like any other part she has ever played and explained why she is now going for something completely different in Frauds
Jodie Whittaker has admitted that the role of Doctor Who was more like herself any other part she has ever played. The acclaimed actress, 43, was the first, and so far, only woman to play the titular Time Lord in the BBC sci-fi series before going on to star in prison drama Time, and as Netflix hit Toxic Town, and will soon be seen in the ITV drama Frauds.
The forthcoming show features Jodie alongside former Coronation Street star Suranne Jones, who created the show the show with Anne-Marie O’Connor, as a pair of female fraudsters named Bert and Sam, whose poisonous yet wickedly amusing bond is reignited to execute the ultimate robbery.
But while Jodie, who has swapped her usual blonde locks her an auburn look this time around, admitted that it was ‘intentional’ that she goes for such varied roles on television, she insisted that ‘weirdly’, the character she could resonate with most was the mysterious doctor, who travels through time and space.
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She said: “It’s intentional, but that all that comes with being lucky enough to work. Like in that sense of, you know, I’m in a situation where I have been sent something…what a gift for me.
“[The fact that] I’m on Suranne’s and Anne-Marie’s radar for them to think of me as that part. Because really, in real life, I am absolutely nothing like Sam. And with the challenge for me, particularly when you see Suranne has got peroxide blonde hair and is Northern.
“I was like ‘What am I doing? I was just like, ‘Oh wow!’ When the stunt doubles would come on set, I automatically would be like, ‘Ah, she’s in the wrong costume. I was like ‘Oh no, the blonde one’s not me!’
“I felt that I’m lucky because I suppose I’ve been entrusted [with it].
“I think it is intentional, but only because… I’m in a situation where someone will think of me outside of this. But weirdly, The Doctor, oddly, is like the most I’ve played to myself ever.
Jodie, who took over the part from Peter Capaldi and was then replaced by Ncuti Gatwa, insisted that she is ”more close’ to her version of the iteration of her character than anything else, and revealed that
“Like, I would say that I am more close to my version of The Doctor than anything.
“Which is why, like Chris [Chibnall, then-showrunner] cast me in it, is because of the personality I am in between scenes on Broadchurch, he was like, ‘Ah, be that little hyperactive, unfocused human. Anything else, I’m like ‘This is a world away from me!”‘
Frauds premieres Sunday 5th October at 9pm on ITV1 and ITVX
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