TV followers know Christopher Chung for taking part in tech specialist Roddy Ho on Sluggish Horses — he’s on the heart of the story in Season 5, with what might have been an try on his life already within the premiere, which dropped on Apple TV+ on September 24 — however he additionally appeared on one other well-known collection in 2025: Physician Who.
Chung visitor starred in “The Properly” as Cassio Palin-Paleen, a trooper who tried going toe-to-toe with the Physician (Ncuti Gatwa), refusing to hearken to his orders and imagine his warnings about the cause of the pain a collection of grisly deaths in a base on a planet.
“It was chilly, it was moist. I acquired to put on an area go well with, which was nice enjoyable, and I started working on a present that’s so worldwidely iconic, which I by no means thought I’d get to do and to work with Russell T Davies was an absolute pleasure,” Christopher Chung tells TV Insider. “I had a good time doing it. And I acquired to fulfill Ncuti. So it’s simply enjoyable going right into a sci-fi, one thing fully completely different to Sluggish Horses. So, I’ve been actually gifted with the roles that I’ve gotten to play in between doing Roddy, however they’re all very diversified and completely different.”
The Physician quickly realized that he had been to the planet earlier than — again when it was made from diamonds. “The Properly” was a sequel to “Midnight,” from when Davies was beforehand showrunner and when David Tennant performed the Time Lord.
“Once I was auditioning for it, I had watched it. They did ship it as a reference,” Chung stated of that earlier episode. “I didn’t notice how iconic it was, however yeah, when folks knew that that episode was going to be a continuation and a follow-up, that was actually thrilling.”
Cassio’s refusal to hearken to the Physician did in the end lead to his loss of life. He took management from his chief, Shaya (Caoilfhionn Dunne), declaring a crimson code, for an incompetent chief, and his actions ultimately led to Shaya placing him instantly behind Aliss (Rose Ayling-Ellis), to whom the entity had hooked up itself. Those that ended up in that place, at “midnight,” had been killed. She defined that she needed to as a result of he was uncontrolled. “It’s what it turns us into,” the Physician stated.
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