Doctor Who
- Martin Clunes said no?
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January 28, 2009 | Reply
The Clunes thing sounds like bollocks to me. The Mirror's suggestion is that Clunes would have taken over, but the entire Two Doctors plot was sleight of hand. Are we to believe that the entire thing was rewritten because Clunes pulled out? Or is the reality that Clunes was one of several people tentatively approached for _a_ part (rather than _the_ part) in Doctor Who, and who's yet to make an appearance.
January 28, 2009 | Reply
That's the third person I've heard of who 'apparently' turned down the part before it was offered to Matt Smith — Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, and now Martin Clunes. Though reading the Mirror story, it seems like complete bollocks, as they hadn't even managed to get the plot of the special right.
January 28, 2009 | Reply
Ha ha ha - in what parallel universe are we supposed to believe that Martin Clunes a) would ever have become a new Doctor Who or b) would have been preferred by the Who bosses to David Morrissey, or even c) could have played that part? What rot.
January 28, 2009 | Reply
I'd heard that Clunes was offered the Morrissey part in tND originally and turned it down for whatever reason. At which point they approached the (imo far better) Morrissey.
No suggestion that there was any intention for Clunes or Morrissey to become the 11th Doctor though (I'd bet my mortgage that several people turned the role down before it got offered to Matt Smith though).