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fantasticalice:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 03 Aug 2018, 01:36 ---The only Doctor from the new series who has had to 'audition' for the role was Matt Smith.
Eccleston was handed it.
Tennant's "audition" was down to working with Russel T Davies on Casanova
Capaldi was 'discussed' among the production staff (mainly Andy Pryor, Moffat and Minchin) and given the role after being walked through a reading. (Moffat was "obsessed" with seeing Capaldi as the Doctor)
But the casting of a female Timelord was on the cards almost as soon as Matt Smith took the role on.
Whittaker was called personally and asked to read by showruner Chris Chibnall (who she had worked with before) and whereas She has said she was up against other female's (but she didn't know who) HE has said only that he always wanted her for the role.
Personally I don;t care who plays the Doctor as long as they are good actors.
But if the rumour is true that they are brining in Bradley bloody Walsh as her 'companion'....
As well as a slew of other bog-standard soap actors etc... I'm dreading that it becomes another farce of bringing in the crew's mates and trendies which almost killed it for me in (new) series 3.
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Jodie also auditioned. It's been mostly confirmed that it was Just with other women but she did audition.
Also, she has a ridiculous amount of range. Between all her short films she has played gay, straight, bi/pan, a mother, a badass alienhunter, and even someone with gender identity issues(Very short film)
I'm curious who she beat out for the part but she has a real wide variety of.roles to pull inspiration from. Also in Trust Me she was brilliant and a lot of things she did(the way she gets angry) were quite intriguing.
But she DID audition. I've even gathered it may have been against a decent amount of people.
Walsh is an excellent actor. mandip's showreel is very impressive.
Tosin has only played Captain Blokey mcBloke Blokes in the roles I have seen. I trust Chibi but I hope he gets a chance to do some variation. Even something as simple as comic relief would be a departure.
Broadchurch was.phenomenal. And Torchwood consitently had fascinating ideas and I assert that Cyberwoman is actually a very moving story if you ignore her costume(Which was NOT in the script)
I think Jodie will be great. As a North Irish it also excites me to see two characters from the North of England.
The stygma is sadly similar. I don't hear as mich public vitriol on North Irish but we're even rarer than North of England accents on telly.
So both as a woman and someone with a Northern accent that is derided and criticised I feel very excited to be represented.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: fantasticalice on 14 Aug 2018, 04:37 ---
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 03 Aug 2018, 01:36 ---The only Doctor from the new series who has had to 'audition' for the role was Matt Smith.
Eccleston was handed it.
Tennant's "audition" was down to working with Russel T Davies on Casanova
Capaldi was 'discussed' among the production staff (mainly Andy Pryor, Moffat and Minchin) and given the role after being walked through a reading. (Moffat was "obsessed" with seeing Capaldi as the Doctor)
But the casting of a female Timelord was on the cards almost as soon as Matt Smith took the role on.
Whittaker was called personally and asked to read by showruner Chris Chibnall (who she had worked with before) and whereas She has said she was up against other female's (but she didn't know who) HE has said only that he always wanted her for the role.
Personally I don;t care who plays the Doctor as long as they are good actors.
But if the rumour is true that they are brining in Bradley bloody Walsh as her 'companion'....
As well as a slew of other bog-standard soap actors etc... I'm dreading that it becomes another farce of bringing in the crew's mates and trendies which almost killed it for me in (new) series 3.
--- End quote ---
Jodie also auditioned. It's been mostly confirmed that it was Just with other women but she did audition.
Also, she has a ridiculous amount of range. Between all her short films she has played gay, straight, bi/pan, a mother, a badass alienhunter, and even someone with gender identity issues(Very short film)
I'm curious who she beat out for the part but she has a real wide variety of.roles to pull inspiration from. Also in Trust Me she was brilliant and a lot of things she did(the way she gets angry) were quite intriguing.
But she DID audition. I've even gathered it may have been against a decent amount of people.
Walsh is an excellent actor. mandip's showreel is very impressive.
Tosin has only played Captain Blokey mcBloke Blokes in the roles I have seen. I trust Chibi but I hope he gets a chance to do some variation. Even something as simple as comic relief would be a departure.
Broadchurch was.phenomenal. And Torchwood consitently had fascinating ideas and I assert that Cyberwoman is actually a very moving story if you ignore her costume(Which was NOT in the script)
I think Jodie will be great. As a North Irish it also excites me to see two characters from the North of England.
The stygma is sadly similar. I don't hear as mich public vitriol on North Irish but we're even rarer than North of England accents on telly.
So both as a woman and someone with a Northern accent that is derided and criticised I feel very excited to be represented.
--- End quote ---
As I Said above...
She was asked in to read. That's an audition.
However, whereas she said she thought she was up against other actresses, she did not know who any of them were.
And the show runner has only ever said they wanted her.
That's not strictly an audition... that's "can you play THIS character as well as all the others we've seen you do?"
It's a required necessity... but not what we would call an "audition" in the normal sense of the word.
Tova:
I call BS.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-auditon_uk_59a7d15be4b07e81d3554dee
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Tova on 14 Aug 2018, 06:47 ---I call BS.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-auditon_uk_59a7d15be4b07e81d3554dee
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Maybe a mite 'strong' putting it that way...
But you know what, SO DO I !!
(Different website)
"Strevens reveals that he and Chibnall “saw a few actresses for the part,” but couldn’t stop thinking about Whittaker. “She was just so compelling,” says the EP. “In a way, it was a no-brainer. The fact that we were casting a female Doctor disappeared really quickly from our minds. We were just casting the Doctor and she felt like our Doctor.”
Chibnall says that casting Whittaker “was the easiest decision I made in my whole career.”"
That is the only place I've seen someone other than Whittaker say there were other actresses 'seen'.
(I still haven't seen CHibnall say anyone else was auditioned... but I don;t actually care either way TBH)
However, I still maintain that the audition process is still not quite the same as what we might call 'standard'.
Certainly 'not' an Open Audition... and I would imagine limited to less than a handful.
Tova:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 15 Aug 2018, 00:43 ---
"Strevens reveals that he and Chibnall “saw a few actresses for the part,” but couldn’t stop thinking about Whittaker. “She was just so compelling,” says the EP. “In a way, it was a no-brainer. The fact that we were casting a female Doctor disappeared really quickly from our minds. We were just casting the Doctor and she felt like our Doctor.”
Chibnall says that casting Whittaker “was the easiest decision I made in my whole career.”"
--- End quote ---
You really are interpreting these articles differently to the way I am.
You see, that says to me that he auditioned actresses but Whittaker was the strongest applicant.
Not that they didn't audition anyone else and only ever considered her.
Look, I'm not saying their audition was 'open' or 'standard' or whatever. Just that they did audition, and it did play a role in their decision. Otherwise why would they bother?
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