MEET PEARL MACKIE THE DOCTOR’S NEW COMPANION – IN ISSUE 511 OF DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE!

In her most revealing, in-depth interview to date, Pearl Mackie tells DWM how it feels to be stepping on board the TARDIS as the Doctor’s new companion…

“Every day. I have about a million different emotions,” Pearl says of her fast-approaching, eagerly awaited Doctor Who debut. “I’m excited. I’m nervous. I’m full of anticipation, really. Probably the same as most of the fans. Also, we’re still filming at the moment – we’re wrapping up the series so I’m trying to fit in all those emotions between, like, learning my lines. Which is fun. And a bit mad.”

Describing her character, Bill Potts, Pearl says, “Bill is very inquisitive, but she’s also very, very real and very human, so she does ask those kinds of questions – about him having two hearts, and where the toilet is in the TARDIS, and she says the TARDIS looks like a kitchen because it’s all shiny. She’s not, like, a sci-fi veteran. She likes sci-fi, but in her head it’s very ‘fi’; it’s completely fictional, and then she’s thrown into this amazing world where actually it’s all real and everything – anything – is possible. For something who’s human and 100% of this Earth, it’s completely mind-blowing.”

ALSO INSIDE THIS ISSUE…

• MEET THE TEAM FOR 2017!
  In his exclusive column, showrunner Steven Moffat introduces the team of writers for the 2017 series.
• NEW SERIES PREVIEWS!
  Exclusive previews of the first three episodes of the new series: The Pilot, Smile, and Thin Ice, including interviews with the writers.
• MEET THE PRODUCERS!
  We get the lowdown on the new series from Doctor Who’s two producers, Peter Bennett and Nikki Wilson.
• DOORWAY TO HELL!
  Our brand-new comic strip reaches its climax in Part Four of Doorway to Hell, written by Mark Wright and illustrated by Staz Johnson.
• THIS IS TERMINUS!
  This issue’s Fact of Fiction explores the 1983 story which sees the Doctor arrive on Terminus, where suffers from Lazar’s disease go to die…
• THE CURSE OF THE BLACK SPOT!
  The Doctor, Amy and Rory board a seventeenth-century pirate ship, as the Time Team continue their mission to watch every episode of Doctor Who.
• REVIEWS
  DWM reviews the latest audio and DVD releases from the world of Doctor Who.
• COMING SOON
  Previews of all the latest Doctor Who CD and book releases.
• PLUS! All the latest official news, competitions, the DWM crossword, and a FREE MASSIVE DOUBLE-SIDED POSTER!

Doctor Who Magazine 511 is on sale from Thursday 6 April, price £5.99.