Doctor Who’s queerness won’t be “neutered,” says Russel T. Davies [Video]

Doctor Who made headlines casting Ncuti Gatwa as the latest Doctor, not only because he’s the first Black actor to play the role but because he would be, in the words of Neil Patrick Harris, “the first gay Doctor.” (Sorry to the doomed romance of 14 and Yaz, and any headcanons you might have floating around.) Although if you ask once-and-future showrunner Russell T. Davies, the Doctors “weren’t exactly the straightest men in the past.”

Gatwa’s Christmas special already injected some fun queer undertones, including an introductory dance at a club wearing a kilt. “You’re talking about someone who does have a lightness and a joy about him that, to me, chimes with queer energy,” Davies says of Gatwa in a new Variety profile. “It’s very rarely driving the story vehemently, but you will see moments exploring it. We’re not delivering a neutered …