Matt Lucas has revealed that he’s given showrunner, Russell T Davies, an idea about how his Doctor Who character, Nardole, could return to the show.
Davies appeared on Matt Lucas and David Walliams’ podcast, Making a Scene, and said to the former:
“You’re kind of doomed. I worry about Nardole being left there because the Cybermen are on their way.”
He’s referring to The Doctor Falls there, with Nardole left to protect people on a Mondasian ship as Cybermen came through all the floors below to try to get to them. Lucas replied:
“You have the power. I won’t give it away but I did give you an idea for Nardole, didn’t I? It was something kind of interesting. I don’t want to say what it is in case it ever [happens].”
Lucas played Nardole opposite Peter Capaldi’s Twelfth Doctor and Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts, largely across Series 10, the last to feature Capaldi and to be written by Steven Moffat (though Lucas was also in Christmas specials before Mackie joined the TARDIS team). We last saw a glass representation of Nardole in the Twelfth Doctor’s swansong, Twice Upon a Time, and it seems he died both happy and a hero.
David Walliams has also been in Doctor Who, appearing in The God Complex.
Sadly, we can’t see Nardole coming back any time soon — especially considering Doctor Who is “on a pause” right now, i.e. on hiatus — and I do mean “sadly” because I loved Series 10. Ah but then, would bringing him back taint that era somewhat if he weren’t done justice?
Perhaps it’s better Nardole stays on that ship, as it reverses out of a black hole…
