Ncuti Gatwa Can Make A Doctor Who Fan Dream Come True
Ncuti Gatwa's casting as the new Doctor Who can finally make a casting dream come true for fans. The Sex Education star is due to take up the role of the Doctor after the David Tennant-led 60th anniversary specials air in 2023. Gatwa's casting has been lauded for both its commitment to diversity, and for breaking through to a younger, Netflix-viewing audience who may be unfamiliar with Doctor Who. Speaking about his upcoming role, Ncuti Gatwa has mentioned his desire to face off against a villain, played by one of his Sex Education co-stars, Gillian Anderson.
Anderson, still best known as Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files, is a name that has regularly popped up in relation to Doctor Who since it was relaunched in 2005. To date, rumors of Anderson's involvement as either a villain or future Doctor have never come to fruition. While it's highly unlikely that the X-Files actor would take on another high-profile sci-fi role like that of the Doctor, the possibility of working with Ncuti Gatwa again may finally see Anderson appear in Doctor Who, fulfilling a long-standing fan wish.
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With Gillian Anderson very unlikely to ever play the role of the Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa's own desire for her to play a villain opens up some intriguing possibilities. The prospect of an older female Master against Gatwa's youthful Doctor would certainly be a fun dynamic to play with. Alternatively, Anderson's role as Margaret Thatcher in The Crown season 4 would make her ideal casting as The Happiness Patrol's Helen A, herself a thinly veiled Thatcher parody. A more likely option is in a swiftly debunked rumor from the run-up to Matt Smith's Doctor Who debut that suggested she was to play
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