Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker and David Tennant reunite in new photo
Doctor Who actors David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker have reunited in a brand-new photo.
The duo both played incarnations of the show's main Time Lord, and have also previously worked together on projects such as ITV crime drama Broadchurch and the 2009 movie St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold.
Yesterday (September 20) they both appeared on the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2 with host Scott Mills and fellow guest Lulu, and they posed for a photo with Mills for the station's socials.
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In the interview with Scott, they spoke about the phone call David made to Jodie to tell her he was returning to Doctor Who as her successor, and he revealed that he actually made a recording of that call (sadly, that call recording apparently wasn't suitable for broadcast on daytime radio).
David also teased his upcoming role on Rivals, a Disney+ adaption of the famous Jilly Cooper novel featuring an all-star cast.
It's set in an era of '80s excess and privilege which Tennant described as "in that moment where the world went sort of mad... people kind of competing with each other, these sort of awful people living in the Cotswolds".
He further teased: "The reason why Jilly Cooper's books persist is because the characters are fantastic... you've just got this great clutch of characters doing awful things to each other.
"There's yuppies falling out of it! There's the earliest mobile phones, Danny Dyer has a mobile phone that's the size of a house. And it's got a soundtrack from the '80s, which is so exciting'."
Jodie also spoke about her upcoming theatre return in The Duchess, an updated version of John Webster's 17th-century revenge tragedy The Duchess of Malfi.
She promised "an incredible, classic epic which has kind of everything in it, as you'd expect from a classic play. There's a lot of death, there's a lot of emotion.
"But what it was, in its day, was incredibly progressive about – I suppose in its simplest form, the silencing of women, and written by a man to highlight the suppression of women, particularly the Duchess."
She added that the modern interpretation "still holds onto a lot of the classical elements... but it has this wonderful contemporary feel.
"It's extraordinary that something that can be written so long ago can have so much relevance, and I think those themes are so relevant today."
David has reprised the role of The Doctor multiple times over the years, from audio dramas to Family Guy cutaway gags to a live show with The Muppets and, of course, the 60th anniversary specials last year as the Fourteenth Doctor.
Now Jodie is also making a TARDIS return. Alongside Mandip Gill, Jodie will be starring in some Big Finish audio dramas focusing on Thirteen and Yaz. There will be 12 episodes lasting an hour each, launching in summer next year.
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Speaking about the return, Jodie said that she was "over the moon" to be playing The Doctor again.
"Recording the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz is a really lovely thing to revisit," she said. "One of the things Mandip and I used to love on Doctor Who was getting in, doing a new episode and meeting a brand-new cast."
Meanwhile, the next season of the main show has announced both a Coronation Street favourite and a Little Mermaid remake actor to star alongside Ncuti Gatwa.
Doctor Who airs on BBC One in the UK and Disney+ elsewhere. Classic episodes of Doctor Who are available on BBC iPlayer in the UK.
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