Moffat interview, DWM 417

[kateorman]

Teh Moff feels gingerly around the Doctor's gender the way you might wiggle around a loose tooth you can't quite get to fall out:"... dozens of other actors [besides Matt Smith] were seen - of many different ages and backgrounds... not all of the actors who went for the role were white... What does Steven make of those who opposed the idea of the

Comments

[alryssa]

he Doctor is quite blokey in certain respects. There are certain aspects of him that are quite male - his inability to settle down, his restlessness, his desire to avoid emotion and tinker with his engine - which all feel to me to be quite male.

I'm intensely disappointed by statements like that.