Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu Lift the Lid on Doctor Who‘s New Team

Doctor Who, by its very nature, is always evolving. It’s what has allowed the series to survive for over 60 years of stories across its classic and revived eras. But part of that evolution is also seeing what trends the show has explored in some ways before make a return. For the first time in a long while, Doctor Who‘s latest team-up is one that the show hasn’t explored in quite some time, especially not in its modern age: a companion who wants nothing more than to get back home, away from all these adventures in time and space. That person is Belinda Chandra, played by Andor‘s Varada Sethu. She’s a young nurse who finds herself whisked up into the Doctor’s life only to find it very difficult for her to extricate herself from it in time for her next shift at work. “Belinda understands the responsibility and, in some ways, the loss that enables her to not be whiled or charmed by this creature,” Ncuti Gatwa recently told io9 over Zoom of the changed dynamic between the Doctor and his l ... Read full article.