It wasn’t that way back that Physician Who followers met Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Physician, with this iteration of the heroic Time Lord coming into existence when David Tennant’s Fourteenth Physician bi-generated in “The Giggle.” Nonetheless, along with his second season of the present coming to an finish quickly on the 2025 TV schedule, Gatwa’s Physician Who future stays unsure, even supposing the present is anticipated to proceed for 2 extra seasons. There’s now even a rumor claiming {that a} acquainted Physician Who actor has been solid because the Sixteenth Physician, though I’m extraordinarily skeptical that is really taking place.
Per info handed alongside by Sci-Fi & Fantasy Gazette, Billie Piper, who performed companion Rose Tyler for the Ninth and Tenth Medical doctors, has allegedly been tapped as Ncuti Gatwa’s successor. There’s additionally a picture supposedly making the rounds of Piper’s eyes glowing with regeneration vitality. It allegedly got here from an e mail despatched to these in Spain who’ve a Disney+ subscription, however I’m simply not shopping for this.
Right here’s the factor: we’ve seen with the Twelfth Physician how this character has the aptitude of regenerating right into a face he’s seen earlier than. However to have The Physician begin wanting like considered one of his former companions can be an uncommon inventive transfer to make. It will get even weirder with Billie Piper thrown into the combination contemplating that Rose Tyler is likely one of the few companions with whom The Physician has shared a romantic connection.
Billie Piper was the primary companion of Physician Who’s revival period, accompanying Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Physician for everything of his sole season. Then she caught round for David Tennant’s first season because the Tenth Physician, however was then left trapped in a parallel universe. Piper then reprised Rose for a supporting function in 2008’s Season 4, which ended together with her returning to that different universe, however now attending to dwell her life with a human/Time Lord hybrid duplicate of 10. Piper made her remaining onscreen look as Rose in direction of the top of David Tennant’s remaining common look as The Physician, when he discreetly checked in on her in 2005, earlier than she met 9.
Though Piper did additionally return for Physician Who’s fiftieth anniversary particular in 2013, however this was because the personification of The Second who took on Rose’s look in her “Unhealthy Wolf” type. The actress has additionally vocally reprised Rose for some Huge End audio productions, however I discover it arduous to imagine that she’s been chosen to play the Sixteenth Physician. Even by Physician Who requirements, that is weird territory to tread into. Simply think about if 16 crossed paths with David Tennant’s Fourteenth Physician, who’s current concurrently with 15. His mind would possibly quick circuit.
Additionally, if it hasn’t been formally discovered but if Ncuti Gatwa is leaving Physician Who after this season or not, then there’s no approach an actor has already been solid as his alternative. So don’t, by any means, put cash on this… though this now reignited my hope to see Rose Tyler return sometime.