Moorcock 'could see Gillan as The Doctor'

Doctor Who novel author Michael Moorcock has said that Karen Gillan would have made a good Doctor.

The writer of the recently-published The Coming of the Terraphiles tie-in told The Quietus that Gillan could have played the title role in the last series instead of Matt Smith, who won the part of the Eleventh Doctor.

Regarding the possibility of there ever being a female Doctor, Moorcock said: "I thought they might have one this time. I think Karen Gillan, who plays Amy Pond, would've made a good Doctor Who, so it's a shame she didn't get the job. It could've been the other way around, you know."

Moorock also confirmed that he was a fan of Doctor Who since its beginning, but admitted that he was not keen on William Hartnell because he was too used to seeing him as a "barking sergeant major" in The Army Game.

"I liked Patrick Troughton better, because he was sort of fey and he started to bring that oddness into the character. I didn't like Jon Pertwee, because he was again a bit too posh, and I really liked Tom Baker," he said.

"I sort of knew him; I met him once or twice, usually in a pub, and usually drunk out of his skull on 50 valium and a pint of scotch, and ad-libbing like f**k. And it's wonderful to watch the shows and know that all the other actors are just completely at sea because he hasn't given them their cue line, he's just come up with actually a better line, usually."

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