During an interview for the BBC, Doctor Who new season's main actors presented the new Doctor's companion, Bill Potts...
Doctor Who tenth season will start this Saturday, and will be the last season for the 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi. It will also be the last trip in TARDIS for one of the showrunners, Steven Moffat. But, first of all, it will be the first season for Pearl Mackie, who plays Bill Potts, the Doctor's new companion, and the one who will meet our next Doctor (as Jenna Coleman did with Peter Capaldi, a couple of years ago). So, let's go back on this new companion...
Pearl Mackie, talked about her character “Bill is cool – she’s quite young, doesn’t really know much about the world. She’s very real – she’s not had a very easy upbringing and whilst she doesn’t really let that affect her day-to-day life, it’s there under the surface – she can be quite defensive. She’s fun, she’s excited, she’s a bit geeky – she quite likes sci-fi stuff, she’s into space and that type of thing so when she does go on adventures with the Doctor and discovers aliens are real and that kind of stuff it blows her mind which is really cool.”
Capaldi talked about Bill Potts as a companion. “Bill comes in very much as a regular human being from the real world to whom all of this stuff is extraordinary. She knows nothing about it. But she’s a very clever, bright, funny girl. I think the Doctor is very taken with her as she’s one of those people who life hasn’t been great to and she didn’t deserve life not to be kind to her. She has enormous potential and I think the Doctor wants to help her reach that potential.”
Mackie said of their relationship, “It’s quite interesting at the beginning – their relationship is very much tutor/student. It has an ‘Educating Rita’ vibe about it at the beginning when they first meet each other. There’s a definite fasciation for Bill in terms of the Doctor – she’s really interested in the way his mind works – he’s supposed to be doing a lecture on science and ends up talking about poetry and he says they’re the same thing.”
Capaldi explained the Doctor’s side, saying, “I think initially he takes her under his wing in order to teach her – to literally improve her mind, but in quite a terrestrial way. Through that she becomes involved in his extra-terrestrial adventures and the expansion of her mind becomes quite extraordinary. It’s a kind of teacher-pupil relationship but it becomes more complex than that and I think ultimately the Doctor has to undergo some dramas by himself so I think he becomes slightly worried that he’s swept someone else up into his adventures without quite preparing them.”
Matt Lucas, who plays Nardole, spoke about his character’s relationship with Bill Potts. He said, “As the series goes on, I think Bill and Nardole find they have more in common and challenge the Doctor more. Nardole grows to appreciate Bill and what she brings to the TARDIS. The Doctor has grown weary of Nardole but as the series goes on, I think he comes to appreciate what he has to offer.”
So, what do you think about it ? Will you watch season 10 ?
