08/10/2021
🚨 NEWS 🚨
Christopher Eccleston has revealed he will not be returning to Doctor Who for the 60th Anniversary when Russell T Davies returns as showrunner.
“I left because my relationship with Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Phil Collinson completely broke down during the shooting of the first series. I think it’s fair to say… that the first series, nobody knows what they’re doing, and the politics are raging. The shooting of the first series was a nightmare.
I agreed with Russell that I would go, quietly and respectfully, and I would look after the show publicity-wise, in terms of publicizing it. And then, without saying anything to me, they announced that I was leaving. They didn’t tell me they were going to do that. I was walking down the street, and suddenly I got quite a lot of aggression.
More importantly… they created a quote, and they attributed it to me, which said I was tired. I didn’t find it too tiring. I found it too tiring working with Russell, and Phil, and Julia. I didn’t find it physically too tiring. When they said that, any other producer reading that would go ‘Oh, we’re not going to employ Christopher Eccleston because he gets tired’… So they issued a kind of apology, but it’s not enough, so no.”
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