Maisie Williams to be brand-new character on ‘Doctor Who’

And could she possibly be someone from the past series resurrected? After pulling off the mask and hat she was wearing, Peter Capaldis Doctor immediately recognized her. This prompted her to respond “What took you so long, old man?”, implying that these two have familiarity with each other.

Capaldi describes Gomez’ performance as “wonderful, funny, clever, evil”, but adds “the role she fulfills will be different from last time…. They don’t get confused”, he said. “Once you see what she’s up to on the show, you’ll appreciate what a clever idea it was”, he said. “It’s a significant role. We’re not throwing her away”, he said. Showrunner Steven Moffat is keeping quiet about details of the role, but he is saying it’s going to go the unexpected route.

“She’s not playing a returning character”, he says. Clara has now decided that the TARDIS is her real life and that’s what she loves and loves running around in the TARDIS with the Doctor and getting into scrapes. “Unless I’m lying!”

The “Doctor Who” rumor mill silencing didn’t stop there.

Regarding the oft-whispered-about Doctor Who movie, Moffat pretty much ruled such a project out for the time being.

So, why not just make a Doctor Who feature film already? The key thing about changing The Master to Missy is that The Doctor doesn’t react to it at all. “That’s up to the BBC”.

“People always say, ‘Will a woman play The Doctor?'” Moffat began. “But the circle to square, and maybe there is an answer, but I’ve never seen what it is, is what are we going to do, shut down for a year and make a movie?” Does everyone really want that? “One movie instead of a whole series?” At the same time, there certainly isn’t a shortage of female stars who also have that captivating appeal. Stars Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman were only available via satellite from the set, but writer/executive producer Steven Moffat was here in person. They would both later pretend to peer into the imaginary crowd they couldn’t see from question to question, cranking their twosome power of adorableness all the way to 11.

When popular Doctor Matt Smith exited the BBC’s “Doctor Who” fans anxiously awaited the reveal of the new Doctor.

“He’s mysterious”, Mr. Capaldi said. “Michelle plays it so beautifully. It’s a great part, and she’s terrific in it”. So that’s very surprising.