Doctor Who: 10 Actors Who Could Play The Next Companion

Aimee Lou Wood is currently one of television’s most popular young actors - after her breakout role as Aimee Gibbs in Sex Education, she’s gone from strength to strength, with a prominent role in White Lotus and an acclaimed performance in Toxic Town opposite Jodie Whittaker. She may be punching above the weight of Doccy Who a little bit, but she’d certainly get eyes on the show.

Wood possesses a warmth, vulnerability, and innocence that’s wrapped up in a very natural, very relatable delivery. On top of that, as seen in Sex Education, she’s wickedly funny. She’s an actor that manages to be endearing and compelling in pretty much every role, and I can see her absolutely nailing the companion role, be that flipping out at her first alien world, or bombarding the Doctor with the questions no one ever asks. She’s got an energy and spontaneity that would inject a sense of fun that the show has been failing to capture of late.

She’d be a cross between Rose Tyler and Bill Potts, a character that perhaps doesn’t think much of her own intelligence, but has that human insight that so often spots things the Doctor doesn’t.

The vision: A young modern-day woman who floats through day to day life, job to job, feeling as if she hasn’t found her rhythm. We need a Doctor who’s a little lost themselves, so that the two can find purpose together. Needs to be an incarnation with emotional baggage, but also one that can match Wood’s fun and bubbly energy. Got to be Eccleston!