Ryujin
Legend
There are certainly those who have taken a great deal of time in training for accents, but they seem in the minority. I hear more train wrecks than I do trained voices, on North American TV and in Hollywood movies.
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There are certainly those who have taken a great deal of time in training for accents, but they seem in the minority. I hear more train wrecks than I do trained voices, on North American TV and in Hollywood movies.
Jester David
Hero
Going with an unknown or lesser known actor always seems like a good idea. Someone who can be one famous as the Doctor rather than being a famous Doctor. Someone who can grow into the role rather than have the role modified for them.
And I doubt it will be anyone who has worked in film. If they've started in a movie, they're too high profile...
And I doubt it will be anyone who has worked in film. If they've started in a movie, they're too high profile...
Capaldi and Eccleston had both been in movies.
Jester David
Hero
But not particularly major roles. Not main cast. Or even really named characters. Like Tennant in the Goblet of Fire.
Anyone able to get nough film roles enough to be recognizable by name without having to Google or check IMDb us likely far too big to be the Doctor. TV is where you go to get the movie careeer (or after your film careeer is lagging).
A lot of people's casting for the Doctor seems to overlap with their casting for Bond, which feels like very different things.
That's rather a goalpost move from "I doubt it will be anyone who has worked in film", the statement I was disagreeing with.
Elba is a bit more famous right now but Eccleston has a solid resume. I don't need to Google or check IMDB to name a bunch of his film works and I'm no movie scholar.
[quuote]TV is where you go to get the movie careeer (or after your film careeer is lagging).[/quote]
Not these days. That was the 1990s.
TV is no longer the red-headed stepchild of movies. Lots of major actors are in TV shows now.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
It gets away from the straight white-black race-swap meme that has increasingly become a thing (see movie Heimdal and stage Hermione) and also the third vector of the meme being Asian = Chinese. I think bringing in a whole 'other' culture for the Doctor to portray as he saves the multiverse would be interesting and of all the brown (non white, non black) people in Britain 'Pakistani' feels like a large enough recognizable demographic with a talented pool of working actors
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
UK Bookmakers William Hill have put 6/1 odds on actor Ben Whishaw to replace Peter Capaldi
Whishaw was Q in Bond:Skyfall and the voice of Paddington bear. So what do people think of him for the role
He's 36 and reasonably good looking...
http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/31/doctor-who-peter-capaldi-ben-whishaw/
Whishaw was Q in Bond:Skyfall and the voice of Paddington bear. So what do people think of him for the role
He's 36 and reasonably good looking...
http://ew.com/tv/2017/01/31/doctor-who-peter-capaldi-ben-whishaw/
Not my choice. Young quirky white male is too boring.
MNblockhead
A Title Much Cooler Than Anything on the Old Site
It would never happen, but I would love to see Nikolas Lloyd (a/k/a Lindybeige) in the role of the Doctor.
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Lindybeige
https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Lindybeige
Ryujin
Legend
He's too busy not releasing the further adventures of Stoke Mandeville, which I've been waiting for.
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