Jack Dunn While filming episode one of “Doctor Who” season 14, entitled “Space Babies,” Millie Gibson had to do the impossible: keep the attention of 20 infants at once.
Although she was bearing her soul in a speech integral to her character’s backstory, the babies kept dozing off and losing their attention to the flashing lights of the space-age set.
So, to keep their little eyes focused on her, she delivered her lines while a nursery rhyme played on her phone just out of camera view. “It was so hard honestly,” recalled Gibson. “It was the most bizarre thing but it will stay in my mind forever.” The cast and crew of “Doctor Who” walked the red carpet on premiere night Wednesday at the NeueHouse in Hollywood ready to celebrate 60 years of the Doctor and discuss how they brought the new season’s debut episode to life.
The 14th season of “Doctor Who” follows the 15th Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companion Ruby Sunday (Gibson) as they adventure through spacetime in the iconic police box time machine known as the Tardis.
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