FIRST female Doctor Who JODIE WHITTAKER has no fear about crossing any gender lines - because the double-hearted Time Lord isn't even human anyway.
"I'm playing an alien and gender is not a part of that," says the 35-year-old who recently played a nurse masquerading as a doctor in BBC One medical drama Trust Me. "A moment like this, of being the first woman cast as something, it makes you really think about your sex, whereas actually what you want to do is play a part where your gender is irrelevant," she adds. And while the Yorkshire lass admits the decision to hand her the keys to the Tardis was certainly a momentous one in the show's illustrious 54-year history, she thinks the fuss is much ado about nothing.
"There's no right or wrong way to do it. The rules went out the window."
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