Doctor Who season 10: Pearl Mackie told NOT to watch the series
PEARL MACKIE is the Time Lord's latest companion, but now the actress has revealed she hasn't gone back to watch any old episodes of Doctor Who.
Peter Capaldi returns as Doctor Who
Pearl, who will play Bill in the upcoming series 10, was advised by non other than Steven Moffat to avoid watching anything from Doctor Who's back catalogue.
The 29-year-old told SFX Magazine: "It wasn't really on when I was a kid.
"I watched some of the new series when it first came out but I was 16, so I was trying to spend as little time at home as possible! So it's quite new to me as well as being new to Bill.
"I talked to Steven and [executive producer] Brian [Minchin] after I'd got the job - I was like, 'Look, gimme the back catalogue, let me watch it all!'," Pearl discussed.
So it's quite new to me as well as being new to Bill
She then revealed that she was warned not to watch the series, saying: "I initially planned to watch all of Peter [Capaldi's] stuff with Jenna [Coleman], so I could see what he was like as a Doctor, and they were like, 'Don't watch it, because she doesn't know anything about that, and actually what you're bringing to it is a really nice kind of freshness. What you're doing is working.'
"I think it's stood me in quite good stead in terms of my approach to [playing Bill]," Pearl added.
The upcoming series marks Peter's last as the Doctor, with him set to bow out after Christmas.
Little is known of the upcoming storylines, but it has been confirmed that the Mondasian Cybermen will be returning.
Meanwhile, Nicolas Burns (who played Martin in Benidorm) exclusively teased his upcoming role as a "moustache-twirling" villain to Express.co.uk.
He said: "You do have a lot of fun playing a baddie because they are more fun, and mine is sort of a moustache-twirling baddie so I loved it."
Doctor Who returns to BBC One on April 15.