“I think as well for me, [I’m] used to being given the words and being given the ‘just so you know this is the character arc’. “I’d have been surprised had it been something other than that, if someone would have said ‘actually, I think you’re a descendant of a queen!’”. Here, the Skelmanthorpe-born actress talks about what it was like to get the role and how coming from Yorkshire has influenced her work, Getting the role of Dr Who feels completely overwhelming. “I wasn’t nervous about finding out anything that wasn’t necessarily comfortable,” confesses the Doctor Who star. Things that have influenced you or which give you a different ‘take’ on something. Someone had left it there, I picked it up and I was totally hooked. I had to try and keep everything under wraps until July (2017), which was to my benefit, because I’d been lucky enough to lead quite an anonymous life until then. But … I’ve had a lot of rewards for it. I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn’t have had any friends in any environment other than performing. It should be “accents”, in the plural, Bradford is different from Huddersfield, which is different from Hull, which is different from Richmond. All rights reserved. When I learned I’d got it, it was really tricky. As you grow up, you watch adventure films and TV shows that make it look as if anything is possible. You can’t just be blasé about it. “I actually would make an excellent detective,” she declares, “the jigsaw pieces start to clink into place.”. It’s a journey Whittaker will hold onto and quite literally never forget, given the amount of physical documentation the star has amassed over filming. “Not knowing any beats to this person’s life, Walter’s life, it started on particularly shaky ground, y’know?”. ', The full list of UK travel corridor countries after today's quarantine update, Travel rules and restrictions explained for going on holiday during October half term, The rules for holidaying in the UK explained - and if the 3 tier system will change things, Boris Johnson to announce tougher restrictions for London and North West but faces revolt. “I’m from Hoodezfield. “I think class is a really fascinating thing in this period of time, because it means so many different things,” she says. Working his way up from a child labourer in a Yorkshire coal mine to becoming a mine owner himself, the tale darkens when Whittaker discovers that he kept the family mines open during the biggest UK mining strikes of the 1920s. “There’s things that I was given, y’know, marriage certificates, death certificates, things like that, you get copies of that and I think it’s about preservation. But I never believe that they truly get it, it always turns out as a slightly cod “Eeee bah gum” thing that could be from anywhere north of Watford. “My family, we tend to lose bits, not quite hear bits, so now at least we’ve got the actual story.”. JODIE Whittaker made history as the first female Doctor Who in 2017. BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are? Jodie Whittaker became the first female Dr Who on Christmas Day. Taking to Twitter in droves, the fans banded together to agree subtitles were needed.

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