Claire Bloom – The Doctor’s Mother?
April 29th, 2009 Posted in BBC, Doctor Who, News | no comments
We’ve already seen The Doctor’s Daughter, in a Dr Who episode many of us would prefer to forget. Now the mail reports that we’re going to see more of the Doctor’s family during David Tennant’s swansong. Claire Bloom is said to be set to appear as the Doctor’s mother.
Bloom is a highly respected actress who’ll be known to genre fans. She starred in the superb 1963 movie The Haunting as the sexually ambiguous Theo.
Despite my admiration for Bloom I’m unsure about the wisdom of this. Overly humanising the Doctor does risk losing some of his alien mystique. However it could work if – for example – she appears as a memory during the regeneration from David Tennant to Matt Smith.
At the moment this is just rumour with no comment from the BBC. However Bloom’s agent is reported as saying:
It is happening. They are filming at the moment. I have been organising her schedule
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