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21 Interesting Facts About Ncuti Gatwa, The New Star Of "Doctor Who"


On the <i>Barbie</i> set, Ncuti Gatwa once turned around to find Ryan Gosling looking at him, and "his eyes were so blue that [Ncuti] just…fell over."

People will probably think this sounds so silly but once the grieving was done, once I’d found a safe home again, typing in our respective star signs and seeing all this writing that described so accurately what the problem was between us, it led me to be able to forgive them. He told News 18, "Eric is so well written and I’m so grateful to Laurie Nunn for writing such fully fleshed character, he goes through a lot during the series and I think his journey and arc is going to be so important for people to watch and realise that the best way to lead your life is unapologetically and free. I love the fact that he is of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent also, because I am also African (my parents are Rwandan) and having that form of representation of screen felt really empowering as an actor to play."

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