The Long Call stars on queerns, g out and their smash gay drama

Contents:

• PEARL MACKIE HAS PERFECT RPONSE TO BEG THE FIRST GAY ‘DOCTOR WHO’ PANN
• BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE ON THE SUBTLE WAY THEIR GAY CRIME DRAMA IS HELPG QUEER KIDS BELONG
• PEARL MACKIE GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH
• ‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• GAY TIMES HONOURS 2022 SPONSORED BY META QUT - STUD
• DOCTOR WHO'S BILL POTTS TO BE SHOW'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN
• DOCTOR WHO IS GETTG ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN
• DOCTOR WHO STAR PEARL MACKIE ON GAY PANN: 'IT'S ABOUT TIME'
• HOW NEW DOCTOR WHO COMPANN PEARL MACKIE REVOLUTNIZ A SCI-FI INSTUTNON HIS WAY OUT, SHOWNNER STEVEN MOFFAT HAD ONE MORE SURPRISG TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE.BY JOANNA ROBSONAPRIL 15, 2017SIMON RIDGWAY/BBC AMERICASAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA STRANGE THG HAPPENS WHEN A PROPERTY HAS BEEN KICKG AROUND POP CULTURE AS LONG AS DOCTOR WHO. MUCH LIKE THE CREATIVE TEAM NOW CHARGE OF THE STAR WARS ANCHISE, MOST OF THE PEOPLE WORKG ON WHO THE DAYS WERE RAISED ON THE SCI-FI STUTN. SHOWNNER STEVEN MOFFAT, OCSNAL CELEBRY GUT WRER NEIL GAIMAN, THE REVOLVG ST OF DOCTORS AND COMPANNS, AND MORE ALL HAVE AN ANSWER READY WHEN THEY’RE EVABLY ASKED “WHO IS YOUR FAVORE DOCTOR?” AFTER MORE THAN FIFTY (NON-NTUO) YEARS ON AIR, THIS IS A SHOW FOR FANS, BY FANS. THAT TENSE LOVE N BE A GREAT THG—BUT N ALSO, AT S WORST, RULT A B OF STALE NAVEL-GAZG WHEN TO STORYTELLG. ENTER PEARL MACKIE, THE NEWT OCCUPANT OF THE TARDIS, WHO PARTIALLY LAND THE GIG OF PANN BEE SHE IS UNFAIAR WH THE WORLD OF WHO. HER FIRST EPISO, AIRG SATURDAY ON BBC AMERI, ACTS AS A KD OF SOFT REBOOT FOR THE ANCHISE AND IS CHEEKILY NAMED “THE PILOT.” AS BILL POTTS, THE TENSELY CHARISMATIC MACKIE BURSTS TO THIS FAIAR UNIVERSE A WAY THAT’S LS “BREATH OF H AIR” AND MORE “GALE FORCE WD.”SPEAKG WH , THE 29 YEAR-OLD MACKIE EXPLAS WHY SHE MISSED THE WHO PHENOMENON THE FIRST TIME AROUND: “I WAS PART OF THE DOCTOR WHO-LS YEARS WHEN SORT OF WAS OFF THE AIR JT BEFORE I WAS BORN, AND THEN ME BACK WHEN I WAS ABOUT 16, WHEN I WAS MOSTLY TERTED HANGG OUT PARKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.” THOUGH, SHE NFS, “YOU’D HAVE TO KD OF BE LIVG UNR A ROCK TO NOT KNOW ABOUT DOCTOR WHO AND ABOUT THE TARDIS” AND SAYS SHE UGHT THE OCSNAL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.BUT UNLIKE THE OTHER YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN IALLY UNFAIAR WH WHO THAT HAVE BEEN HIRED BY THE ANCHISE RECENT YEARS, MACKIE DIDN’T DO HER HOMEWORK. IN A RATHER GENI MOVE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRIAN MCH ACTUALLY TOLD MACKIE NOT TO WATCH THE PREV SEASONS OF THE SHOW. ENERGIZED BY HER H TAKE ON THE UNIVERSE, THE CREATIVE TEAM SAID: “WHATEVER YOU’RE DOG CURRENTLY IS WORKG, SO MAYBE ’S BT NOT TO WATCH ALL BEE MIGHT CHANGE YOUR PERFORMANCE. IT’D BE QUE NICE IF YOU EXPERIENCED THGS AS BILL EXPERIENC THEM.”THAT WI-EYED WONR—SUCH A KEY FACTOR TO THE WORLD OF WHO— EASILY FOR MACKIE AND IS ALSO BAKED TO THE CREATN OF HER CHARACTER. MANY OLD-SCHOOL FANS HAVE NOTED THAT BILL’S STYLE (SPECIFILLY, HER PATCH-VERED JACKET) SEEMS LIKE A NOD TO AN EARLY, BELOVED PANN, ACE MCSHANE—THOUGH MACKIE SAYS THAT WAS NOT TENTNAL. BUT AFTER WATCHG “THE PILOT,” THE CLEARER PARISON IS TO THE MOST POPULAR PANN OF ALL TIME: PANN OF ALL TIME: BILLIE PIPER’S ROSE TYLER.WHEN WE FIRST MEET BILL, SHE’S DISHG UP CHIPS A UNIVERSY FETERIA. THE WAY MACKIE SCRIB BILL MAY SOUND FAIAR TO FANS OF ROSE—A LONDON SHOP GIRL:SHE’S VERY REAL, VERY MUCH KD OF A GIRL THAT YOU ULD WALK PAST ON THE STREET. SHE’S SORT OF BEEN PLUCKED OUT OF THAT LIFE AND THEN BEEN SHOWN THE WONRS OF SPACE AND TIME VIA THE TARDIS AND THE DOCTOR. I THK 'S QUE NICE THAT SHE’S AN EVERYDAY PERSON. SHE ULD LIVE NEXT DOOR TO YOU. SHE’S VERY, VERY SEPARATE TO THAT WORLD. IT’S MORE LIKE IF YOU OR I SUDNLY DISVERED THAT A GUY THAT WE KNEW HAD A TARDIS THAT ULD TAKE ANYWHERE WE WANTED TO GO.AS MACKIE NOT, THAT “ORDARY” VIBE OF BILL STANDS OUT STARK NTRAST TO THE “EXCEPTNALISM” THAT HAS MARKED RECENT PANNS LIKE KAREN GILLAN’S AMY POND (WHO MET THE DOCTOR AS A CHILD AND GREW UP WH A TEMPORAL CRACK HER WALL) OR JENNA COLEMAN’S CLARA OSWALD, WHO, LET’S SAY FOR THE SAKE OF EXPEDIENCY, EXISTED MULTIPLE TIMEL. AMY WAS “THE GIRL WHO WAED.” CLARA WAS “THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL.” EVEN ROSE WAS “THE BAD WOLF.” BUT BILL? WELL, SHE’S JT BILL.SIMON RIDGWAY/BBC AMERICAOF URSE, AS RECENT HEADL HAVE BEEN EAGER TO POT OUT, MACKIE’S BILL IS AT LEAST SOMEWHAT EXCEPTNAL WH THE META WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO, BEE SHE’S THE FIRST GAY PANN (IF WE DON’T UNT PART-TIMER CAPTA JACK HARKNS) TO RI AROUND THE TARDIS FULL-TIME. BUT EVEN BILL’S SEXUALY IS TREATED A SUAL AND EVERYDAY A MANNER. MOFFAT HIMSELF HAS STRSED THAT WE SHOULDN’T MAKE A FS OVER BILL BEG GAY: “WE DON'T WANT YOUNG KIDS, WHO MAY HAPPEN TO FANCY THEIR OWN GENR, WE DON’T WANT THEM TO FEEL AS IF THEY ARE SOME OF KD OF SPECIAL SE, AS THAT’S IGHTENG.”BUT MACKIE NOT THAT PUTTG A GAY CHARACTER AT THE CENTER OF SUCH A POPULAR AND BELOVED SHOW IS WORTH AT LEAST A CERTA AMOUNT OF FS. “GROWG UP AS A MIXED-RACE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE AN ACTRS, I DIDN’T SEE MANY PEOPLE LIKE ME ON THE TELLY. I JT DIDN’T,” SHE SAYS. “FOR ME, BEG ABLE TO BE A REGNIZABLE FACE OF AN ETHNIC MORY IS GREAT. THAT’S IMPORTANT FOR ME, SO I IMAGE THAT FOR THE YOUNG GAY, AND THE OLR GAY MUNY, THAT IS IMPORTANT TO SEE SOMEONE A MASTREAM SHOW THAT IS GAY.”AND THOUGH MOFFAT ADVOT FOR MIMAL FS, THE SHOW IS NOT TRYG TO HI OR ERASE BILL’S SEXUALY. HER CSH ON ANOTHER YOUNG WOMAN IS THE VERY BEATG HEART OF “THE PILOT”—DOCTOR WHO HAS A LONG HISTORY OF LEANG ON LOVE AS GENRE METAPHOR—BUT ’S REVEALED QUE MATTER-OF-FACTLY. “FOR BILL, HER SEXUALY IS JT HER SEXUALY,” MACKIE EXPLAED. “IT’S NOT THAT IMPORTANT TERMS OF THE CHARACTER. FOR HER, ’S NOT A BIG AL, ’S SOMETHG SHE’S JT VERY HAPPY AND QUE CHILLED AND FORTABLE WH. BUT I DO UNRSTAND THAT REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT. I JT THK, I MEAN, ’S 2017. IT’S ALL ABOUT TIME. HOPEFULLY, THERE’LL BE MORE TO FOLLOW.”SIMON RIDGWAY/BBC AMERICAOVER THE URSE OF FIVE S, DOCTOR WHO HAS FOREVER BEEN REVENTG SELF. IT’S WHAT THE SERI IS KNOWN __FOR. BUT THIS IS A PARTICULARLY ODD TIME THE ANCHISE’S HISTORY FOR MOFFAT TO PURSUE RADIL REVENTN. BOTH MOFFAT AND STAR PETER CAPALDI HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THIS WILL BE THEIR FAL SEASONS ON DOCTOR WHO, MEANG THAT THE SERI WILL ONCE AGA REBOOT WHEN NEW SHOWNNER CHRIS CHIBNALL AND AN AS-YET-UNNAMED LEADG ACTOR/ACTRS TAKE OVER. THERE’S NO WORD YET WHETHER MACKIE OR THIS SEASON’S OTHER PANN, MATT LUS’S NARDOLE, WILL STAY ON THE SHOW TO BRIDGE THE TRANSN—THOUGH THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SOME MORS THAT MACKIE WILL BE PARTG AS WELL. WHICH WOULD BE AN UTTER SHAME.ONE MIGHT EXPECT THAT FOR THEIR FAREWELL TOUR, CAPALDI AND MOFFAT WOULD LEAN HEAVILY ON THEIR RPECTIVE HISTORI WH THE SERI. THAT’S CERTALY HOW STAR DAVID TENNANT AND PREV SHOWNNER RSELL T. DAVI WENT OUT: WH THEIR EY FIRMLY ON THE REARVIEW. AND THERE WILL BE SOME __OF THAT BACKWARDS LOOKG THIS SEASON, THOUGH TERTGLY, MOFFAT SEEMS TO BE STG BACK TO REFERENC THAT PRE-DATE HIS TIME AS SHOWNNER. THE WATER-LOGGED MONSTER OF “THE PILOT” RELLS THE DRIPPG VILLAS OF 2009’S “THE WATER OF MARS,” AND JOHN SIMM WILL BE RETURNG AS THE FAN FAVORE, TENNANT-ERA RNATN OF THE MASTER. BUT SPE THOSE (AND SURELY MANY MORE) REFERENC, THE CLN OF MACKIE AS BILL MEANS THAT MOFFAT HAS A CHANCE TO END THE SERI ON A TLY H AND HIGH NOTE.“STEVEN’S LLED A REBOOT BEFORE,” MACKIE SAYS, REFERRG TO SEASON 10. “I THK IS SORT OF A REAWAKENG OF THE WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO—NOT THAT ’S BEEN ASLEEP. YOU SEE THE DOCTOR THROUGH BILL’S EY, AND ALLOWG THE DIENCE TO GO THROUGH THE TARDIS WH BILL, YOU’RE ALLOWG THEM TO HAVE BOTH THE JOY OF DISVERY AND THAT FAIARY. IN A WAY, PRENTS SORT OF OLD, INIC L, BUT THEN ALSO GIV A BREATH OF HNS TO .” BUT MACKIE IS MORE THAN BREATH OF ANYTHG. SHE’S EXACTLY THE KD OF STRONG WD DOCTOR WHO NEED S SAILS TO SEND MOFFAT AND CAPALDI ON THEIR WAY.SEASON 10 OF DOCTOR WHO PREMIER ON BBC AMERI APRIL 15. NEW EPISOS ARE AVAILABLE THE NEXT DAY AT , ON THE BBCA APP, AND ON VOD.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDJOANNA ROBSON

PEARL MACKIE HAS PERFECT RPONSE TO BEG THE FIRST GAY ‘DOCTOR WHO’ PANN

Such is the se of the highly popular Doctor Who seri, which has jt this year troduced the Doctor’s first openly gay travelg pann. This award-wng picture, much like Pearl’s character on Doctor Who, was a bold step forward the directn of clivens for gay dividuals. 'Officially En-GAY-ged!

BEN ALDRIDGE AND PEARL MACKIE ON THE SUBTLE WAY THEIR GAY CRIME DRAMA IS HELPG QUEER KIDS BELONG

Pearl Mackie partied wh iends and fay last weekend, celebratg her recent engagement to her girliend Doctor Who star, 35, popped the qutn back January, but announced she felt 'officially En-GAY-ged' as she shared a seri of photos om the uple's engagement, who played Bill Potts on Doctor Who, ghed that 'Saturday was probably my favoure day ever' as she cuddled up to her wife-to-be the fun photos. Weddg bells: The Doctor Who star popped the qutn back January, but announced she felt 'officially En-GAY-ged' Pearl also paid tribute to her mother as she ghed: 'A big thank you to my mama for your betiful speech and for beg queen of the gays ( se anyone was wonrg where I got om! ❤️' Celebratns: Pearl, who played Bill Potts on Doctor Who, ghed that 'Saturday was probably my favoure day ever' Party time: Pearl looked geo an orange sun drs for the fun party She add the hashtags '#engaged #engagement #party #bilove #bi #bipri #gay #gaypri #loveislove #pamforever.

''Yup, we're En-GAY-ged!!!

Doctor Who premiered s tenth season last night, and wh buted the first gay pann, character Bill Potts, played by Pearl Mackie. You know, ’s 2017, so ’s about time for a gay ma pann, really. Related: New ‘Doctor Who’ Spoff trailer released that clus a gay kiss.

PEARL MACKIE GAY, PARTNER, NET WORTH

That’s important for me, so I image that for the young gay, and the olr gay muny, that is important to see someone a mastream show that is gay. There has been talk that openly gay actor Ben Wishaw uld take the role as The Doctor. Pearl played Bill Potts, the first openly gay pann on Doctor Who (Picture: PA)Pearl prevly opened up on her role as Bill, and admted she wasn’t any sh to reprise the part jt yet.

Pearl add that she will always be proud of her time on the show, and particular the rponse to Bill, who was the show’s first openly gay ma pann.

From Michael Cashman’s famo gay kiss on EastEnrs, to Brian Dowlg’s Big Brother victory and inic dramas like Sugar Rh and It’s a S. The atmospheric astal whodunn follows Matthew, a gay tective who has recently moved back to his hometown Devon.

‘DOCTOR WHO’ MAK HISTORY WH FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

Matthew is portrayed by actor Ben Aldridge, who me out publicly as gay last summer. But a crime drama starrg a gay tective and two openly queer actors feels like new terrory for Brish televisn particular. They’re makg gay characters gay but they’re really not necsarily explorg how that affects their life or how that chang their life.

I didn’t know about about the part beg the first ever male gay lead tective when I first read .

Pearl: Havg a gay male tective, as the lead a primetime ITV tective drama isn’t somethg that I’d ever seen before. So I have to challenge myself now wh adulthood to talk about my queerns and my gayns and make sure that ’s somethg that I n volve a nversatn, whout worryg about havg to “manage” the other person’s reactn my fay.

DOCTOR WHO GETS FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

We’ve seen lots of gay killers on TV lately, om The Assassatn of Gianni Versace to Don’t F**k wh Cats and Killg Eve. B: In The Long Call we’re fely seeg a gay man existg a different space than we have before. She veloped a close-kn bond wh her -stars and, she was tears when she looked at the last episo and the memori, she ma the More: Ey Schromm Wiki: Age, Height, Relign, Girliend, Datg, FayIs She Gay In Her Real Life?

But today as she rells the moment, and she nnot image herself a joggg bottom on her tails of her love life are not out public, but her gay character as Bill created hype among the dienc. She would be the one reprentg the gay muny. Belongg om a mixed ethnicy, she is proud of the role she has played for the young and old gay people.

GAY TIMES HONOURS 2022 SPONSORED BY META QUT - STUD

For the role, she was also award Ally Award 2017 as was the first gay pann on the May Like: Holly Frazier Wiki, Age, Height, Hband, Children, Net Worth, InstagramBeg a gay on screen, is she the same her real life? Actrs Pearl Mackie will play the first openly gay pann to the eponymo space-hoppg doc.

“[Beg gay] is not the ma thg that f her character — ’s somethg that’s part of her and somethg that she’s very happy and very fortable wh, ” the actrs said of her role. Media ptn, "Bill’s gay and shouldn’t be a big al.

"The new seri of Doctor Who will see the Time Lord joed by his first openly gay Potts's sexualy will be revealed pretty much straightaway her send le of dialogue when the show returns to BBC One on 15 April. "She add: "It's important to say people are gay, people are black - there are also aliens the world as well so watch out for them.

DOCTOR WHO'S BILL POTTS TO BE SHOW'S FIRST OPENLY GAY PANN

""[Beg gay] is not the ma thg that f her character - 's somethg that's part of her and somethg that she's very happy and very fortable wh. "Image source, BBC, Ray BurmistonImage ptn, Pearl Mackie will jo Peter Capaldi - who will appear his last seri of Doctor WhoGay and bisexual characters have featured Doctor Who before, such as Capta Jack and River Song, but this is the first time the Doctor's permanent pann has been openly gay. ImagCreativeVioCreativeEdorialGAY TIMES Honours 2022 sponsored by Meta Qut - StudLONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: Kam Chhokar and Pearl Mackie pose durg a portra ssn at the GAY TIMES Honours Awards 2022, held at Magaze London on November 25, 2022 London, England.

(Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Imag for GAY TIMES)LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 25: Kam Chhokar and Pearl Mackie pose durg a portra ssn at the GAY TIMES Honours Awards 2022, held at Magaze London on November 25, 2022 London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Imag for GAY TIMES)Standard edorial rightsCtom rightsHow n I e this image?

DOCTOR WHO IS GETTG ITS FIRST OPENLY GAY COMPANN

It’s important to say people are gay, people are black – there are also aliens the world, so watch out for them.

“[Beg gay] is not the ma thg that f her character – ’s somethg that’s part of her and somethg that she’s very happy and very fortable wh. ”Gay characters have featured the programme the past, but never prevly as full-time was announced last April that Mackie would be takg the role and her first episo is due to air on 15 April.

DOCTOR WHO STAR PEARL MACKIE ON GAY PANN: 'IT'S ABOUT TIME'

Bill Potts (Pearl Mackie) is openly gay.

HOW NEW DOCTOR WHO COMPANN PEARL MACKIE REVOLUTNIZ A SCI-FI INSTUTNON HIS WAY OUT, SHOWNNER STEVEN MOFFAT HAD ONE MORE SURPRISG TRICK UP HIS SLEEVE.BY JOANNA ROBSONAPRIL 15, 2017SIMON RIDGWAY/BBC AMERICASAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEA STRANGE THG HAPPENS WHEN A PROPERTY HAS BEEN KICKG AROUND POP CULTURE AS LONG AS DOCTOR WHO. MUCH LIKE THE CREATIVE TEAM NOW CHARGE OF THE STAR WARS ANCHISE, MOST OF THE PEOPLE WORKG ON WHO THE DAYS WERE RAISED ON THE SCI-FI STUTN. SHOWNNER STEVEN MOFFAT, OCSNAL CELEBRY GUT WRER NEIL GAIMAN, THE REVOLVG ST OF DOCTORS AND COMPANNS, AND MORE ALL HAVE AN ANSWER READY WHEN THEY’RE EVABLY ASKED “WHO IS YOUR FAVORE DOCTOR?” AFTER MORE THAN FIFTY (NON-NTUO) YEARS ON AIR, THIS IS A SHOW FOR FANS, BY FANS. THAT TENSE LOVE N BE A GREAT THG—BUT N ALSO, AT S WORST, RULT A B OF STALE NAVEL-GAZG WHEN TO STORYTELLG. ENTER PEARL MACKIE, THE NEWT OCCUPANT OF THE TARDIS, WHO PARTIALLY LAND THE GIG OF PANN BEE SHE IS UNFAIAR WH THE WORLD OF WHO. HER FIRST EPISO, AIRG SATURDAY ON BBC AMERI, ACTS AS A KD OF SOFT REBOOT FOR THE ANCHISE AND IS CHEEKILY NAMED “THE PILOT.” AS BILL POTTS, THE TENSELY CHARISMATIC MACKIE BURSTS TO THIS FAIAR UNIVERSE A WAY THAT’S LS “BREATH OF H AIR” AND MORE “GALE FORCE WD.”SPEAKG WH , THE 29 YEAR-OLD MACKIE EXPLAS WHY SHE MISSED THE WHO PHENOMENON THE FIRST TIME AROUND: “I WAS PART OF THE DOCTOR WHO-LS YEARS WHEN SORT OF WAS OFF THE AIR JT BEFORE I WAS BORN, AND THEN ME BACK WHEN I WAS ABOUT 16, WHEN I WAS MOSTLY TERTED HANGG OUT PARKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.” THOUGH, SHE NFS, “YOU’D HAVE TO KD OF BE LIVG UNR A ROCK TO NOT KNOW ABOUT DOCTOR WHO AND ABOUT THE TARDIS” AND SAYS SHE UGHT THE OCSNAL CHRISTMAS SPECIAL.BUT UNLIKE THE OTHER YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN IALLY UNFAIAR WH WHO THAT HAVE BEEN HIRED BY THE ANCHISE RECENT YEARS, MACKIE DIDN’T DO HER HOMEWORK. IN A RATHER GENI MOVE, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER BRIAN MCH ACTUALLY TOLD MACKIE NOT TO WATCH THE PREV SEASONS OF THE SHOW. ENERGIZED BY HER H TAKE ON THE UNIVERSE, THE CREATIVE TEAM SAID: “WHATEVER YOU’RE DOG CURRENTLY IS WORKG, SO MAYBE ’S BT NOT TO WATCH ALL BEE MIGHT CHANGE YOUR PERFORMANCE. IT’D BE QUE NICE IF YOU EXPERIENCED THGS AS BILL EXPERIENC THEM.”THAT WI-EYED WONR—SUCH A KEY FACTOR TO THE WORLD OF WHO— EASILY FOR MACKIE AND IS ALSO BAKED TO THE CREATN OF HER CHARACTER. MANY OLD-SCHOOL FANS HAVE NOTED THAT BILL’S STYLE (SPECIFILLY, HER PATCH-VERED JACKET) SEEMS LIKE A NOD TO AN EARLY, BELOVED PANN, ACE MCSHANE—THOUGH MACKIE SAYS THAT WAS NOT TENTNAL. BUT AFTER WATCHG “THE PILOT,” THE CLEARER PARISON IS TO THE MOST POPULAR PANN OF ALL TIME: PANN OF ALL TIME: BILLIE PIPER’S ROSE TYLER.WHEN WE FIRST MEET BILL, SHE’S DISHG UP CHIPS A UNIVERSY FETERIA. THE WAY MACKIE SCRIB BILL MAY SOUND FAIAR TO FANS OF ROSE—A LONDON SHOP GIRL:SHE’S VERY REAL, VERY MUCH KD OF A GIRL THAT YOU ULD WALK PAST ON THE STREET. SHE’S SORT OF BEEN PLUCKED OUT OF THAT LIFE AND THEN BEEN SHOWN THE WONRS OF SPACE AND TIME VIA THE TARDIS AND THE DOCTOR. I THK 'S QUE NICE THAT SHE’S AN EVERYDAY PERSON. SHE ULD LIVE NEXT DOOR TO YOU. SHE’S VERY, VERY SEPARATE TO THAT WORLD. IT’S MORE LIKE IF YOU OR I SUDNLY DISVERED THAT A GUY THAT WE KNEW HAD A TARDIS THAT ULD TAKE ANYWHERE WE WANTED TO GO.AS MACKIE NOT, THAT “ORDARY” VIBE OF BILL STANDS OUT STARK NTRAST TO THE “EXCEPTNALISM” THAT HAS MARKED RECENT PANNS LIKE KAREN GILLAN’S AMY POND (WHO MET THE DOCTOR AS A CHILD AND GREW UP WH A TEMPORAL CRACK HER WALL) OR JENNA COLEMAN’S CLARA OSWALD, WHO, LET’S SAY FOR THE SAKE OF EXPEDIENCY, EXISTED MULTIPLE TIMEL. AMY WAS “THE GIRL WHO WAED.” CLARA WAS “THE IMPOSSIBLE GIRL.” EVEN ROSE WAS “THE BAD WOLF.” BUT BILL? WELL, SHE’S JT BILL.SIMON RIDGWAY/BBC AMERICAOF URSE, AS RECENT HEADL HAVE BEEN EAGER TO POT OUT, MACKIE’S BILL IS AT LEAST SOMEWHAT EXCEPTNAL WH THE META WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO, BEE SHE’S THE FIRST GAY PANN (IF WE DON’T UNT PART-TIMER CAPTA JACK HARKNS) TO RI AROUND THE TARDIS FULL-TIME. BUT EVEN BILL’S SEXUALY IS TREATED A SUAL AND EVERYDAY A MANNER. MOFFAT HIMSELF HAS STRSED THAT WE SHOULDN’T MAKE A FS OVER BILL BEG GAY: “WE DON'T WANT YOUNG KIDS, WHO MAY HAPPEN TO FANCY THEIR OWN GENR, WE DON’T WANT THEM TO FEEL AS IF THEY ARE SOME OF KD OF SPECIAL SE, AS THAT’S IGHTENG.”BUT MACKIE NOT THAT PUTTG A GAY CHARACTER AT THE CENTER OF SUCH A POPULAR AND BELOVED SHOW IS WORTH AT LEAST A CERTA AMOUNT OF FS. “GROWG UP AS A MIXED-RACE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE AN ACTRS, I DIDN’T SEE MANY PEOPLE LIKE ME ON THE TELLY. I JT DIDN’T,” SHE SAYS. “FOR ME, BEG ABLE TO BE A REGNIZABLE FACE OF AN ETHNIC MORY IS GREAT. THAT’S IMPORTANT FOR ME, SO I IMAGE THAT FOR THE YOUNG GAY, AND THE OLR GAY MUNY, THAT IS IMPORTANT TO SEE SOMEONE A MASTREAM SHOW THAT IS GAY.”AND THOUGH MOFFAT ADVOT FOR MIMAL FS, THE SHOW IS NOT TRYG TO HI OR ERASE BILL’S SEXUALY. HER CSH ON ANOTHER YOUNG WOMAN IS THE VERY BEATG HEART OF “THE PILOT”—DOCTOR WHO HAS A LONG HISTORY OF LEANG ON LOVE AS GENRE METAPHOR—BUT ’S REVEALED QUE MATTER-OF-FACTLY. “FOR BILL, HER SEXUALY IS JT HER SEXUALY,” MACKIE EXPLAED. “IT’S NOT THAT IMPORTANT TERMS OF THE CHARACTER. FOR HER, ’S NOT A BIG AL, ’S SOMETHG SHE’S JT VERY HAPPY AND QUE CHILLED AND FORTABLE WH. BUT I DO UNRSTAND THAT REPRENTATN IS IMPORTANT. I JT THK, I MEAN, ’S 2017. IT’S ALL ABOUT TIME. HOPEFULLY, THERE’LL BE MORE TO FOLLOW.”SIMON RIDGWAY/BBC AMERICAOVER THE URSE OF FIVE S, DOCTOR WHO HAS FOREVER BEEN REVENTG SELF. IT’S WHAT THE SERI IS KNOWN __FOR. BUT THIS IS A PARTICULARLY ODD TIME THE ANCHISE’S HISTORY FOR MOFFAT TO PURSUE RADIL REVENTN. BOTH MOFFAT AND STAR PETER CAPALDI HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT THIS WILL BE THEIR FAL SEASONS ON DOCTOR WHO, MEANG THAT THE SERI WILL ONCE AGA REBOOT WHEN NEW SHOWNNER CHRIS CHIBNALL AND AN AS-YET-UNNAMED LEADG ACTOR/ACTRS TAKE OVER. THERE’S NO WORD YET WHETHER MACKIE OR THIS SEASON’S OTHER PANN, MATT LUS’S NARDOLE, WILL STAY ON THE SHOW TO BRIDGE THE TRANSN—THOUGH THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SOME MORS THAT MACKIE WILL BE PARTG AS WELL. WHICH WOULD BE AN UTTER SHAME.ONE MIGHT EXPECT THAT FOR THEIR FAREWELL TOUR, CAPALDI AND MOFFAT WOULD LEAN HEAVILY ON THEIR RPECTIVE HISTORI WH THE SERI. THAT’S CERTALY HOW STAR DAVID TENNANT AND PREV SHOWNNER RSELL T. DAVI WENT OUT: WH THEIR EY FIRMLY ON THE REARVIEW. AND THERE WILL BE SOME __OF THAT BACKWARDS LOOKG THIS SEASON, THOUGH TERTGLY, MOFFAT SEEMS TO BE STG BACK TO REFERENC THAT PRE-DATE HIS TIME AS SHOWNNER. THE WATER-LOGGED MONSTER OF “THE PILOT” RELLS THE DRIPPG VILLAS OF 2009’S “THE WATER OF MARS,” AND JOHN SIMM WILL BE RETURNG AS THE FAN FAVORE, TENNANT-ERA RNATN OF THE MASTER. BUT SPE THOSE (AND SURELY MANY MORE) REFERENC, THE CLN OF MACKIE AS BILL MEANS THAT MOFFAT HAS A CHANCE TO END THE SERI ON A TLY H AND HIGH NOTE.“STEVEN’S LLED A REBOOT BEFORE,” MACKIE SAYS, REFERRG TO SEASON 10. “I THK IS SORT OF A REAWAKENG OF THE WORLD OF DOCTOR WHO—NOT THAT ’S BEEN ASLEEP. YOU SEE THE DOCTOR THROUGH BILL’S EY, AND ALLOWG THE DIENCE TO GO THROUGH THE TARDIS WH BILL, YOU’RE ALLOWG THEM TO HAVE BOTH THE JOY OF DISVERY AND THAT FAIARY. IN A WAY, PRENTS SORT OF OLD, INIC L, BUT THEN ALSO GIV A BREATH OF HNS TO .” BUT MACKIE IS MORE THAN BREATH OF ANYTHG. SHE’S EXACTLY THE KD OF STRONG WD DOCTOR WHO NEED S SAILS TO SEND MOFFAT AND CAPALDI ON THEIR WAY.SEASON 10 OF DOCTOR WHO PREMIER ON BBC AMERI APRIL 15. NEW EPISOS ARE AVAILABLE THE NEXT DAY AT , ON THE BBCA APP, AND ON VOD.MOST POPULARSARA RAMIREZ ISSU STHG RPONSE TO ANTI–CHE DIAZ PROFILEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW LILY JAM AND JOE KEERY BEME OLD HOLLYWOOD INS FALLY DAWNBY DAVID CANFIELD2023 FALL PREVIEW: 46 FILMS TO WATCH OUT FORBY REBEC FORDJOANNA ROBSON

"Yeah, Bill's gay, " Mackie told the BBC. ""[Beg gay] is not the ma thg that f her character -- 's somethg that's part of her and somethg that she's very happy and very fortable wh, " she add.

Doctor Who has had gay characters before, like Capta Jack and River Song, but Bill Potts is the first of the Doctor's permanent travelg panns to be gay. In 2017, was announced that she would also be the first openly gay pann to the Doctor (Capta Jack, played by John Barrowman, was pansexual/omnisexual) has admted that she had no knowledge of Doctor Who (1963) as a child bee was ncelled by Peter Cregeen, the BBC's Head of Seri, when she was jt two years old.

” One thg that surprised many people was the announcement last month that Bill is the show’s first gay pann, although Mackie says her character’s sexualy is really not that big a al.