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Jodie Whittaker: ‘I didn’t fit the mould for Doctor Who’
The first female Doctor reveals how she weathered a furious backlash after joining the show — great preparation for playing a ‘lioness’ activist in a new Netflix drama
After her critically acclaimed role in the BBC prison series Time, she now stars in Toxic Town, a Netflix drama about one of the UK’s worst — yet little known — environmental scandals. Whittaker left drama school before her final term to perform at the Globe theatre, before being cast opposite Peter O’Toole in the 2006 film Venus. There has been the occasional bruising review, including for last year’s stage production of The Duchess of Malfi(The Times gave it one star, describing Whittaker’s acting as “flat and featureless”).
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