Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor will be 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:joined by a new companion for his second season in the TARDIS,  Belinda Chandra (played by Varada Sethu). She'll join the Doctor and Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday for 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Doctor Who season 2, but you may not realize that she also had a small role in a season 1 ep⛎isode as a different character.

"I think we might as well just be simple with this, because we've already said she's not coming back as Mundy Flynn," Davies tells 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine in the new issue, which hits newsstands on July 10 and features Doctor Who on the cover. "It's one of those very simple situations, like with Freema [Agyeman, who appeared in 'Armyꦦ of Ghosts' before being cast as companion Martha Jones]: when you cast a great actor, you need a new companion."

Sethu played Mundy Flynn in 'Boom', the 🌼third episode of season 1. Written by former showrunnerꦡ Steven Moffat, it takes place on the wartorn planet of Kastarion 3, and Mundy is a marine who the Doctor and Ruby encounter after the Doctor steps on a landmine. 

"I was watching, like, the fifteenth edit of 'Boom', loving her," Davies continues. "Every time I watch her, I think, 'God, she’s brilliant', I literally think she's brilliant. I used to watch her thinking, 'God, what a shame we can’t work with her again.' I was thinking, 'Should we go back to the 51st century, could we meet her♛ again?' and then I suddenly went, 'Oh, let’s just cast her again. We've done that before. Lovely.' 

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"The relief that went around the entire production and the BBC, everyone went, 'Oh, great.' It was the most instant yes you’ve ever seen. So she didn't even haওve to audition," he continues. "We then invited her to come in for a meeting, but she tho🦩ught she was coming in to audition [laughs] and it was the other way round. It's like we were auditioning. We were wanting her to like us so much that she'd want to come back! We had a great meeting. She was kind of amazed and delighted. Lovely." 

Davies concluded by teasing what's to come, claiming: "Good stuff ahead. Completely new character, again, a completely new story and that's a great new story that will run across❀ eight episodes."

Doctor Who season 1 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer in the UK and Disney Plus worldwide. Read more in , which features Doctor Who on the cover and is availableဣ from Wednesday, July 10. Check out what to look for on newsstands below... 

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