She’s been adapting her on-screen performance for audio.
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As Jodie Whittaker returns as the Thirteenth Doctor in new Doctor Who audio dramas, she’s picked up on something different in her performance.
Whittaker, who made history as the show’s first female Doctor, portrayed the iconic time traveller from 2018 to 2022 during Chris Chibnall’s time as showrunner.
Discussing the biggest challenge of adapting her role for audio, she explained:
I speak really quickly and I think, on film, because of the edit, you can get away with maybe tripping over something. They’ve got it on another angle. But obviously, when your voice is the entire thing, I realised how many times I mispronounce words, I trip over sounds.
Sharing a laugh with co-star Mandip Gill, who plays Yazmin Khan, she told Big Finish:
I basically pitched the Doctor too quick but I did it in my very first episode and I’ve regretted it ever since! But obviously, when your voice is the entire thing, I realised how many times I mispronounce words, I trip over sounds.
While laughing alongside her co-star Mandip Gill, who plays Yazmin Khan, she told Big Finish: “I basically pitched the Doctor too quick but I did it in my very first episode and I’ve regretted it ever since!”
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In addition to her latest work with Big Finish, Whittaker also made a recent on-screen return as the Doctor in Ncuti Gatwa’s final episode, The Reality War. In the episode, she shared a brief moment with Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor, highlighting a clear contrast in personality between their two versions of the Time Lord.
Reflecting on her return, showrunner Russell T Davies told Doctor Who Magazine: “It was a major delight to work with the great and mighty Jodie.”
Because her Doctor regenerated into David Tennant’s Fourteenth, I always felt Jodie and Ncuti were owed a moment together – which is a strange thing to think, because had one regenerated into the other, they’d still never have met!
But you know what I mean. There was a missing link between them, which this episode forged together.
He went on to say:
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Source: TheRadioTimes