Doctor Who star really isn’t a fan of Jodie Whittaker’s storylines:
‘I don’t want to know about Rosa Parks’
https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/11/doct...storylines-dont-want-know-rosa-parks-9176231/
Doctor Who star Frazer Hines has slammed the show’s storylines for Jodie Whittaker’s debut performance last year.
The 74-year-old actor, who played Time Lord Patrick Troughton’s second companion Jamie McCrimmon for three years from 1966,doesn’t seem to be impressed by the politically charged episodes such as the Rosa Parks special written by Malorie Blackman for Black History Month.
‘I’m old fashioned, I don’t want to know about Rosa Parks,’ Frazer said. ‘I don’t want to know about whether we’d done this we could have changed history and Kennedy might not have been shot. I like bug-eyed monsters. Monster of the week, I want.’
He continued to The Sun: ‘I loved it when it was episodic. Now it’s all in one, beginning, middle and an end. ‘I liked it when it ended on a Saturday night and then Sunday in the park or on Monday in the school playground you’d be like, “What is going to happen? Doctor Who was caught there. Is the monster going to get him?”
Jodie Whittaker is the first female Doctor Who Time Lord (Picture: BBC) Fraser appeared on Doctor Who in the 60s (Picture: BBC Archives)
‘Now it’s all wrapped up too quick. Just call me old- fashioned.’
This isn’t the first time former Doctor Who cast members have hit out at the BBC series, with Alex Kingston revealing in February that she was conflicted over news Jodie would be playing the first female Time Lord.