The Boy Meets Girl star reveals that there’s a “mini campaign” calling for her to get the role.

Rebecca Root has admitted that she would love to play the first female Doctor on Doctor Who.

The Boy Meets Girl star told Digital Spy that she mentioned her love of the show to a journalist and has now prompted a “mini-campaign”.

“I did this talk with Kellie Maloney at the Radio Times Festival a couple of weeks ago and almost in passing, I mentioned something to the chair, a lovely journalist called Emma Barnett,” she explained.

“I mentioned something about Steven Moffat being in the next tent along, because I vaguely know Steven. I was like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve got to try and get hold of him – next time the Doctor comes up I’d love to do that’.

“And then Emma sort of outed me in the course of the conversation that we had and it was picked up and somebody tweeted it and then the Radio Times tweeted it and somebody else tweeted it and it’s gone round in this mini campaign to get Rebecca Root as the first female or even trans Doctor!”

She continued: “It was this lovely little flurry and it made me chuckle because yes, of course, although I was making light of it I would love to play the Doctor! Oh my God, what an amazing part. I really, really would love that. But who knows? You never know, do you? Stranger things have happened so never say never!”

News Source: Digital Spy