Ncuti Gatwa's favorite new Doctor Who episode is Steven Moffat's return, despite admitting he "hardly understood what was going on" at first
May. 9, 2024Exclusive | The cast tease upcoming episode Boom, which is Gatwa’s favorite of the season
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For Ncuti Gatwa’sfirst full seasonas the Fifteenth Doctor, Moffat has penned episode 3 titled ‘Boom’, which airs next weekend. It will see the Doctor and companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) travel to a war-torn planet - but there’s a twist! After stepping on a landmine, the Doctor will have to stop the conflict without moving - which we expect to be quite a challenge!
It definitely sounds like an interesting episode and as soon as we mention it during our interview with Gatwa, he starts beaming. As he revealed during our chat, it’s actually his favorite of this season, even though it took him a while to get his head round it. He explained to GamesRadar+: “I can’t believe you just said that - ‘Boom’ is my favorite of the whole season. ‘Boom’ is my favvvoooorite. But what’s wild is that filming it I hardly understood what was going on. It took me so long. I had to reread it and reread it.”
Laughing Gatwa agrees, then revealing that it was also physically challenging. Given that he couldn’t move off one leg for the whole episode, one is now very much stronger than the other! As he concludes: “Yeah it was like doing a play! And it was flipping hard physically, oh my god. I was on one leg so now I have one very strong glute.”
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Doctor Who season 1 will premiere simultaneously on BBC iPlayer on May 11 in the UK andDisneyPlus internationally on May 10 with a double bill. New episodes will then air weekly - stay up to date with exactly when with ourrelease schedule.
For more from our interviews, here’sshowrunner Russell T Davies on whether we will one day see a musical episode.
As Entertainment Editor at GamesRadar, I oversee all the online content for Total Film and SFX magazine. Previously I’ve worked for the BBC, Zavvi, UNILAD, Yahoo, Digital Spy and more.
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