Reading the recently-released Doctor Who Magazine: In Their Own Words special magazine, I came across a highly amusing quote from incoming Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat, originally printed over ten years ago in issue #279 of Doctor Who Magazine:
“Although I loved Peter Davison and Paul McGann – probably the best two actors in the role – I don’t think young, dashing Doctors are right at all. The Doctor should always be a bit more Picard and a bit less Kirk. He should be 40-plus and weird-looking – the kind of wacky grandfather that kids know on sight to be one of them.”
Steven Moffatt’s new series of Doctor Who, starring 27-year-old Matt Smith, premieres April 3 on the BBC, and on April 17 on BBC America in the United States.
