{"id":22209,"date":"2022-05-08T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22209"},"modified":"2022-05-08T12:08:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T16:08:07","slug":"ncuti-gatwa-bbc-names-actor-as-next-doctor-who-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=22209","title":{"rendered":"Ncuti Gatwa: BBC names actor as next Doctor Who star"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Actor Ncuti Gatwa will take over from Jodie Whittaker as the star of Doctor Who, the BBC has announced. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 29-year-old will become the 14th Time Lord on the popular science fiction show, and the first non-white performer to play the lead role.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Scottish actor Gatwa, who was born in Rwanda, is best known for starring in Netflix’s sitcom Sex Education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He told BBC News: “It feels really amazing. It’s a true honour. This role is an institution and it’s so iconic.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking on the red carpet before Sunday’s Bafta TV Awards, where he is nominated for Sex Education, Gatwa said the role of the Doctor “means a lot to so many people, including myself”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He added: “I feel very grateful to have had the baton handed over and I’m going to try to do my best.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gatwa will make his debut as the Time Lord in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From the BBC: Actor Ncuti Gatwa will take over from Jodie Whittaker as the star of Doctor Who, the BBC has announced. The 29-year-old will become the 14th Time Lord on the popular science fiction show, and the first non-white performer to play the lead role. Scottish actor Gatwa, who was born in Rwanda, is … Continue reading Ncuti Gatwa: BBC names actor as next Doctor Who star<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[183],"class_list":["post-22209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-dr-who"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22210,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions\/22210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}