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Nicola Coughlanis well-acquainted with the past.
The thing about playing a modern character is it’s just so comfortable, Coughlan tellsEntertainment Weekly.
I was in this loose dress and tights, I felt like, yeah, this is great!
Nicola Coughlan as Joy in the 2024 ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special.Credit:Disney+
Every day Id come to set knowing exactly what I was wearing.
So it was quite nice to be a modern girl for once, even traveling through time.
She soon discovers that her lodging is an interdimensional place called the Time Hotel.
The Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Joy (Nicola Coughlan) in ‘Doctor Who’.Disney+
He helped her bridge the gap.
I loved sitting in the green room with him and talking about the characters and the experience.
I told [showrunner]Russell T Davies, I know next to nothing aboutDoctor Who.
I’ll come and play, but I feel like a total novice.
But then I was learning in real time from Ncuti a lot of stuff about the Doctor.
It was pretty cool to be learning it from the Doctor directly.
The Time Hotel has portals to many locations and periods across Earths history.
If Coughlan was there for real, she knows exactly what door she would want to go through.
I asked them if I could go and visit that set because I have an obsession with that.
If I could go straight from the Time Hotel into that, I would be super happy.
See Coughlan inDoctor Who: Joy to the Worldwhen the special hits Disney+ on Christmas Day.
