Doctor, Doctor?

Before she steps into the TARDIS as the 13th Doctor, Jodie Whittaker tells us all about playing a fake doctor in a new thriller…

- Sarah Selwood

Overnight, Jodie Whittaker has become one of the most famous people in Britain.

In July, after months of frenzied speculation, the BBC revealed that the Broadchurch star is to make history as the first female Time Lord in Doctor Who’s long, illustrious history when she steps into the TARDIS for the first time this Christmas.

But before she takes on TV's most iconic role, Jodie, 35, is back on our screens this week playing a very different sort of doctor in BBC1’s new identity theft thriller Trust Me.

The four-parter is written by Dan Sefton, a real doctor who also penned ITV hit The Good Karma Hospital.

Jodie plays hard-working nurse Cath Hardacre, who after being pushed out of her job for whistleblowing, decides to steal her best friend’s identity as a senior NHS doctor and begin a new life in Edinburgh with her daughter.

But how far will Cath go to stop her old life ruining her fresh start?

Filming took place in an incredibly realistic recreation of an Emergency Department in a disused building in Glasgow. And it was there, during filming in March, before the big Doctor Who news, that TV Times visited Jodie – whose down-to-earth personality makes her a pleasure to interview – to find out more…

Tell us about Cath…