After guest starring in the third episode of Ncuti Gatwa‘s inaugural season of “Doctor Who,” Varada Sethu believed her time on the iconic British sci-fi series was over.
“I left and I just thought, ‘Well, it’s a shame that door’s closed now,’” Sethu recalls to Variety over Zoom alongside Gatwa. Little did she know she’d be back on the show’s Cardiff set shortly — and not as her Season 1 character Mundy Flynn, but the Doctor’s new companion Belinda Chandra.
“She just blew me away,” Gatwa says of Sethu, who has also held roles in Disney+’s “Star Wars” series “Andor” and 2022 blockbuster “Jurassic World Dominion.”
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