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Showrunner Russell T. Davies On Ushering An Inclusive Era Of ‘Doctor Who’
Executive Producer Russell T Davies Talks About Casting Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson
Deadline spoke to Davies about the importance of his work as a queer filmmaker and the unabashedly fun choices in the latest season of Doctor Who. Because I know I was part of a rising tide of gay, lesbian, and other writers, all of us contributing to the soaps and chipping into primetime dramas, all of us slowly and then rapidly, increasing the visibility of queer characters on screen. When you become more of a senior figure in television, it’s your job to open doors and let the next people through and to let trans and queer stories through and to become familiar with this language myself instead of settling into middle age.
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