Tosin Cole said he has been so busy preparing for his part in ear for eye that he has not had time to watch himself in Doctor Who.
The 26-year-old Londoner, who plays Ryan, one of the companions to Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor, has spent the last six weeks working on the play. The new series of the BBC drama started early last month.
He said: “It’s kind of weird — I think I’ve been so engrossed in this play, I haven’t really had time to sit down and see what’s going on. I catch up with it when I can.”
Describing his new-found fame, Cole said: “There are little changes, like people waiting for you outside the show and wanting autographs, but other than that life is pretty much the same. I can still go to the store in my flip-flops.”
Cole, who grew up in south-east London, plays an angry activist in the play which looks at issues of racism and prejudice from the UK to the Caribbean and beyond. He said it has similarities to a recent Doctor Who episode in which the characters find themselves in Fifties Alabama where civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was about to make history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
He said: “That Rosa Parks one was kind of my favourite episode... We have to shed light on these issues.”
