The duo isn’t ready to give many details about their first adventure, with Whittaker just saying that they are “kind of isolated stories” that don’t really focus on “the Doctor and Yaz’s relationship.” However, she’s quick to point out that the adventures just mean that the Doctor and Yaz will grow closer. “It’s these guys on their travels, what they come across, and their natural banter and rhythm between each other, but then also the protectiveness that they both have for each other,” she said.
Gill took it even further to say that these adventures give the actors and the writers, “time to explore.”
Despite that tease, neither Whittaker nor Gill feel regret about how things ended up in “The Power of the Doctor,” their last episode together. “I’m quite protective over it,” Whittaker says of her screen ending. “It was a really beautiful thing, particularly the scenes in the TARDIS – they were really wonderful to shoot, because that was our last day.”
While she would like to explore the romance between Yaz and the Doctor, Gill also doesn’t see “The Power of the Doctor” as a lesser ending. “I don’t think of it as another version. That is the version. That’s where we left it. That’s how it happened,” she said.
And for her, that’s a good thing. “I’m not entirely sad [that there wasn’t a kiss] because Jodie doesn’t moisturise her lips,” she teased. Hopefully, the Big Finish adventures will give 13 time to put together a moisturizing routine.
Doctor Who Series 14 is now streaming on Disney+ and BBC iPlayer.