Ncuti Gatwa has had quite the rise to fame these last few years, going from being homeless and couch-surfing before his breakout role on Sex Education, to now playing the Doctor himself on Doctor Who. Gatwa couldn't announce that he nabbed the coveted gig for ages, even keeping his Barbie co-stars in the dark about the role, but he did almost let it slip to a very surprising source: the Eleventh Doctor himself, Matt Smith.
During a recent sit-down with BBC Radio 1, Gatwa discussed when he met Smith— who played the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC series from 2010 to 2013 — for the first time, and it was before it had been officially announced that he would be taking on the role of the Doctor's fifteenth incarnation:
