Variety: ‘Doctor Who’ Costume Designer on What Inspired Ncuti Gatwa’s Bold Look, From ’70s New York to Men in Skirts
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 3:24 am
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Progress?In “The Church on Ruby Road,” we see the Doctor dancing in a club wearing a kilt. What inspired that look?
This was on my initial mood board, I had kilts on there and men in skirts. Russell sort of said, “It would be great for Ncuti to wear a skirt sometime.” But it was like, how do we introduce that? Do we wait a bit of time before we do that? Because it’s such a big jump from former Doctors.
And then we had this one little scene, which was this club scene, and I knew there was going to be a top shot and I said, “Russell, we have to have him in a kilt.” Because when he’s doing all this, it will just look amazing. And I gave him a jumper, rather than him just being in a vest, and Ncuti was like, “No! I’m just going to wear the vest with it.” And it was just a really lovely moment of things sort of coming together.