David Bradley on why he jumped at the chance to play William Hartnell
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2023
- As part of RadioTimes.com's 60 Days of Doctor Who, David Bradley reflects on playing First Doctor actor William Hartnell in 2013's An Adventure in Space and Time.
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David Bradley was magnificent as William Hartnell. The scene where he said "I don't want to go. I don't want to go!" was even more heartbreaking than David Tennant's regeneration. Seeing that stern, grumpy, prideful and passionate old man sobbing in his wife's arms as he was forced to accept the reality that he would no longer be playing his most cherished role was devastating to watch.
Some people may think of David Bradley as the hammy Argus Filch. For a long time, I thought of him like that too. But his performance as William Hartnell was so drastically different from Filch and filled with so much heart that I think it's the role he should be most proud of, especially because he wasn't just playing a character. He was playing a man who lived and breathed in our world, not a fictional one.
When it comes to reboots, in the anniversary year I think a spinoff with David Bradley playing the ‘Hartnell’ Doctor would be fantastic. Maybe using material from books like Doctor Who Witch Hunters by Steve Lyons, Byzantium by Keith Topping or City at World's End by Christopher Bulis, or remakes of the lost Hartnell era series from the 1960s, such as Marco Polo, The Myth Makers, The Daleks' Master Plan or The Savages.
His portrayal really filled my heart with all the feelings. The ending where he has to give up the role he created because of his bad health just broke my heart.
My biggest problem with the David Bradley version of The Doctor in the actual series (rather than the docu-show) was that they wrote him as both a racist and a misogynist in "Twice Upon A Time". In the original run, The Doctor never treated his female companions as anything other than equals.
That's a problem with modern entertainment in general (tearing down the past to life up the present)
Same reason that Picard and Luke Skywalker were ruined.
You haven't watched The Five Doctors, have you? The 1st Doctor had a degree of misogyny in the Classic Series. Acknowledging that isn't disrespectful. It's accurate. In fact, it shows that Steven Moffat's knowledge of Doctor Who's past is far better than that of the average fan.
Richard Hurndall may not have been William Hartnell but he was still the 1st Doctor and he had a sexist edge to him. Peter Davison was just as embarrassed as Peter Capaldi was decades later but while Capaldi was hamming it up and panicking, Davison sheepishly commented to Tegan that "one mellows with age".
@@tomnorton4277 that part was written as a comedic exchange, it's a lazy "haha, people from the sixties are so bigoted unlike us" bit, stop trying to pretend it's anything more than that. All this framing of it as "acknowledging the past" or "Steven Moffat's knowledge of Doctor Who's past is far better than that of the average fan" is just cringe af
@@SirSX3 That's not even an argument. If anything, you helped to SUPPORT my comment. The "haha, people from the sixties are so bigoted unlike us" is the same in The Five Doctors as it is in Twice Upon A Time and the latter episode referenced the former. You're one to talk about being "cringe af".