Doctor Who: 7 Reasons Jodie Whittaker Will Make A Great 13th Doctor
3. She Has Already Starred In Science-Fiction Film And TV
Unlike most of her predecessors, Whittaker isn’t completely
new to the world of science-fiction. In 2011 she starred alongside Doctor Who’s
very own Santa, Nick Frost, and The Force Awakens’ John Boyega in cult sci-fi
horror flick Attack the Block. The critically acclaimed, though little known
movie also featured Luke Treadaway, who had been hotly tipped to be the Thirteenth
Doctor.
Whittaker plays a trainee nurse who is forced to team up with her teenage muggers after a bunch of predatory aliens invade. Likened by many, including Whittaker herself, to The Goonies the mixing of horror, sci-fi and comedy with social commentary places it very much in the mould of Russell T Davies’ take on Doctor Who (of the more adult variety found in his Doctor Who novel Damaged Goods).
Whittaker made one other brief foray into science-fiction with The Entire History of You, in the anthology series Black Mirror. Although she doesn’t play an alien character, Whittaker’s chilling performance of a woman fitted with implants that enable her to record everything she sees and hears and then play those memories back, makes her look literally possessed. There’s no doubt that she could effectively convey an otherworldliness to the Doctor if Chibnall chooses to accentuate her alien nature.