[link] - the BBC interview on youtube.
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tiggy - Jan 03, 2009 10:47:29 am PST #2557 of 3486
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Barb - Jan 03, 2009 11:21:10 am PST #2558 of 3486
“Not dead yet!”
Casting young doesn't bother me if the kid has the chops. I mean, Eccleston was 39-40 when he was cast and Tennant in his mid-thirties, so it's not like there was a hugely appreciable difference.
I kind of like the idea that the Doctor doesn't necessarily have to look old in order to project wisdom.
Then again, I'm listening to the Benjamin Button soundtrack, so that may be coloring my opinion somewhat.
JenP - Jan 03, 2009 2:48:10 pm PST #2559 of 3486
Tennant is younger than I am, so I jumped that hurdle already; however, Matt Smith is young enough to be my son, albeit of a mid-teen mother. Still, technically... That's weird! To me. I don't really care that he's younger if, as Laura and Barb say, he's got the chops.
Now I'm off to watch videos and read articles about the youngster.
ETA: Heh, well, I can declare that I find him to be a cutiehead.
sumi - Jan 03, 2009 3:17:50 pm PST #2560 of 3486
Art Crawl!!!
He is a cutiehead. I think that the handfluttering thing is also cute.
I hope that the hair was for a role. . . other than Doctor Who.
BTW, do "summer casting" rules apply to this? Meaning, we can write of it openly in black font in Boxed Set in one month's time?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 03, 2009 5:33:50 pm PST #2561 of 3486
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
He'd better bring a heaping pile of more-gravitas-than-his-age-would-suggest to the role. I've spent 2 years trying to watch Jewel Staite play an allegedly competent chief of medicine, and despite loving the actress and knowing she's extremely talented, it just Does. Not. Work.
Who'll be Twelve, Daniel Radcliffe?
JenP - Jan 03, 2009 5:45:07 pm PST #2562 of 3486
I hope that the hair was for a role. . . other than Doctor Who.
Seconded.
sumi - Jan 03, 2009 6:05:17 pm PST #2563 of 3486
Art Crawl!!!
Over on TWOP they're suggesting that Twelve will be played by a fetus.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 03, 2009 6:47:06 pm PST #2564 of 3486
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I suppose they could always give us the female Doctor everyone's speculated about for decades.
Assuming Dakota Fanning has enough room in her schedule.
Frankenbuddha - Jan 03, 2009 7:12:43 pm PST #2565 of 3486
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
This does fit a theory I've always had that the Doctor's get younger the more incarnations they assume. Granted, there's a lot of wiggle room for what age they seem between Tom Baker and Eccleston, but generally speaking, they seem to go towards younger.
SailAweigh - Jan 03, 2009 8:51:41 pm PST #2566 of 3486
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
The dude is younger than both my kids! That is so wrong.
But, he is a fluttery-handed little cutiehead. And I take it back. In the interview, he looked very ginger! We can haz red hair?