Great choice.
A brilliant actor. One of the UK’s finest. Brilliant comedy and serious actor.
Also older, but not old, can do the physical stuff and the drama and comedy needed. Has bags of gravitas.
‘Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor and film director. He has played numerous roles in film and television, but is best known for his role as Malcolm Tucker, a spin doctor in the BBC comedy series The Thick of It and its follow-up film In the Loop. In 1995, his short film Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life won the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film. Starting in 2013, he will portray the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who.[1]’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Capaldi
All the Doctors since Tom Baker have meant nothing to me.
What?
Not Charlie Sheen?
Bloody ‘ell... people still watch that tripe? I’ve seen less boring vids of pommie historical archives.
Here’s a pic. I’m not sure how to make it smaller.
https://twitter.com/DrWho247/status/364090348902944768/photo/1
The choice is okay, but google the fellow and he’s known for profane tirades in his work. Tom Baker was a monk, and a quiet, decent fellow. A quick youtube search shows most of this guy’s scenes consisting of him yelling the f-word. Along with gay this and gay that, Dr. Who just isn’t family-friendly any more, and that is a shame.
I remember when Star Trek Enterprise came on, and I was excited about getting my nieces into it, as I grew up with Star Trek, basically the first scene showed a porn-queen Vulcan woman spreading decontamination gel all over her half-naked body. Not something I’d want kids growing up with. I wish they had the writing skills to just make good episodes and weren’t trying to indoctrinate. Multiculturalism and gay pride. Enough.
He was a in a gem of a film called Local Hero years ago. Looks just like a cousin of mine.
The new Dr. Who played in World War Z — what was his role? A doctor from the W.H.O.! How foretelling! LOL Congrats Peter Capaldi!