A Female Doctor: It Doesn't Matter (Matt Smith)
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If that what he really thinks (and I'm not sure it is), then he doesn't really understand the show. He did say before he started that he never watched it, So is he underestimating how passionate fans are feeling about this? Is he trying to prepare us for the worst?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a499799/doctor-who-star-matt-smith-on-a-female-doctor-it-doesnt-matter.html
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s7/doctor-who/news/a499799/doctor-who-star-matt-smith-on-a-female-doctor-it-doesnt-matter.html
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The question itself has been thrown about so much, he's probably been told to give a diplomatic answer!
Poor Neanderthal, always discriminated against
This. And just because you happen to disagree doesn't mean that he doesn't understand the fandom or that there's any point in bringing up that he never watched the show before he was cast. Especially as he has watched the show (both classic and nuWho after he was cast/before he started playing) and becamea fan himself. It's not like he has any power over the decision of who will be cast anyway. Also doesn't seem to be completely serious in that interview. And anyway Moffat casting the next Doctor as a woman is highly unlikely at this point.
I agree. It just makes him sound ignorant, tbh.
I'm perfectly entitled to bring up any aspect of Matt's role, including whether or not he watched the show before he was cast. If i was given a job as something I wasn't familiar with I would also research it before and during I started the job. If he wanted to give a diplomatic answer he could have just said "Oh I'm sure Steven Moffatt will select someone fabulous" rather than say "It doesn't matter if it's a woman." That to me suggests that while he has watched some old episodes, he never really got why fans love it so much. And if me not wanting a female doctor makes me a bigot (although why I haven't a clue) then so be it.
Also Disco! Please! I understand your frustration based on some posts/posters but a vote against a female doctor isn't a vote for bigotry. Not for most people anyway.
And if Matt had said the Doctor should never be a woman, someone else would have said this exact same statement.
Sorry, it was my miscommunication by venting my frustrations in the wrong thread. I wasn't meaning to suggest that people who don't want a woman in the role are bigots but rather that I was questioning my own closed mind to the idea, based on what I've read from some other posters who have rather closed minds to various other issues to do with casting.
Personally I would find it challenging if a woman were cast in the role, but perhaps I should be challenged just as those who don't want to see a non Caucasian actor cast should be challenged.
As Matt says, the Doctor is an alien - so in that sense - it doesn't matter, besides he's hardly the first Doctor to say it. I think Tom was the first and Colin also agrees.
I have no problem with any actor of any colur being cast, as long as they're fab! But they must be male!
It's the fact he said "It doesn't matter" that annoys me. If he had said "A female doctor would be interesting" then it wouldn't have bothered me. He should have chosen his words better.
As long as he's male.
But if you rad the whole quote in context it doesn't sound like that:
He's saying that in terms of the Doctor being an alien it doesn't matter, not that it doesn't matter in terms of casting. If that makes sense?
The press would have a field day.
In the words of Ronan Keating:
"You say it best, when you say nothing at all!"
And then he'd get slated by everyone for not saying anything.
As for your earlier point as has already been mentioned some of the classic Doctors have had a similar view on the female Doctor issue as Matt does it mean that they are mistaken in knowing about why the fans love the show as well? Cause that would be at least three out of eleven Doctors who are mistaken in this issue and that's quite a lot.
Anyway, everyone's on about Matt talking about this even though he has no authority over choosing, so let's talk about what someone who will actually have a say in choosing the Doctor had to say about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZWoHMnMByk
The media would tear him a new one. He'd be branded a horrible, evil sexist within minutes.
And that's an entirely different question from "should it happen though?" thank you very much
Yes, it probably should. No, it probably won't...this happens every time
I think he was only teasing the fans - and he enjoyed doing the teasing a lot He also said something about being "well media-trained" to the interviewer; it's basically saying "you know, we can't really say a woman can't be the Doctor, because if we did... well, you can imagine what would happen").
But if he does think (or rather feel) a woman could be the Doctor, it doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't understand how the show works. He is not one of the long-time fans who are against a female Doctor because, watching the show, they see the Doctor in a relation to themselves (and this "relationship" is different for women, different for men, and yet different for children) - and who simply want to believe the Doctor is the same person when he regenerates, because that's what the show is about and a Doctor who is radically different would destroy this illusion. Matt Smith plays the Doctor (he may also watch the show, but he is this one and only person who is also playing him now) and from his point of view this "bonding" with the character may look very different - he is the Doctor (and it really shows he believes he is him when he brightens up when the interviewer says the Doctor also saves people ).
Also, the next Doctor, especially a male Doctor, will be Matt's competition, and it may be much easier for him I can imagine (for him as an actor) to see a woman in this role than for someone who is "only" a fan.
Exactly.
Just remember that Matt Smith has some big shoes to fill and they are _not_ high heels.