Natalie Dormer Would Play A Female Doctor…If The Script Was Right

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Game of Thrones star Natalie Dormer has thrown her hat into the ring should the Doctor ever change – provided, that is, if the script was there.

A self-confessed ‘geek’ Dormer said, just like any other role, she would consider taking the part was right.

“For me it’s always about the script,” she comment while doing press for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.

She went on to add that while the concept may sound good, it’s pointless if the ‘multi-layering’ isn’t there.

“It has to be real human beings, contradictory, flawed, complex multidimensional characters” she said. “It can’t just be concept.

“You know, female James Bond – CONCEPT. It has to have quality in the writing of real human psychology.”

It’s an interesting point because, so far, the conversation has solely been about the concept in the broadest of terms – with the onus on how an actor will fit into the role of the Doctor, rather than an actor being interested in what the Doctor offers an actress – beyond the very act of taking the role.

Perhaps it’s The Hunger Games itself that presents the best example of how to address the issue of gender – the characters, in Dormers eyes, are written gender neutral. The parts could be played by any particular gender, and the same cannot be said of the Doctor.

His gender identity is fluid but he’s written as a male character – admittedly one that tends more towards parity than James Bond but still a male character.

Of course, you could argue that under-pinning the psychology of the Doctor, isn’t a complex, multi-dimensional human, but a Time Lord, and it’s this where the attraction is for an actor.

How these details would ironed out if the role was taken by a female actor isn’t really what Steven Moffat has been trying to do – the very act of opening up the potential for change, it seems is as far as this showrunner will take us.

The details, and the reality of it, will be down to someone else – hence his need to be wowed by an actor that could embody the Doctor regardless of gender – I’m not sure that the two things are mutually exclusive.

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