Former executive producer Steven Moffat has said that he had plans for Faye Marsay, who played Shona in the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special, to replace Clara as the Doctor’s companion. When Jenna Coleman did leave, she was replaced by Pearl Mackie, who played Bill Potts.

“I was eyeing up the possibility of writing the part of Shona as the replacement [for Jenna],” Moffatt said. “There’s a commonality between [her and Bill Potts]. I knew where I wanted to go next was a kind of earthy irreverence, I guess, if I put it in the most basic terms. I hadn’t got a fully-formed character, but I was messing around with that.”

He added: “I had already persuaded [Coleman] to come back and do Christmas and [said], ‘I’ve got a big ending for you where you turn out to be an old lady and you die at the end as an old lady.’

“That was the original ending to Last Christmas, and the ending we had at the read-through… and after the read-through, we went into a side room with Jenna where she was just, she wasn’t ready to go. She thought she was ready to go, and I think in my heart, I knew she wasn’t ready to go, and she said, ‘I’m not sure I’m actually ready to go.'”

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Former executive producer Steven Moffat has said that he had plans for Faye Marsay, who played Shona in the 2014 Doctor Who Christmas special, to replace Clara as the Doctor’s companion. When Jenna Coleman did leave, she was replaced by Pearl Mackie, who played Bill Potts.

“I was eyeing up the possibility of writing the part of Shona as the replacement [for Jenna],” Moffatt said. “There’s a commonality between [her and Bill Potts]. I knew where I wanted to go next was a kind of earthy irreverence, I guess, if I put it in the most basic terms. I hadn’t got a fully-formed character, but I was messing around with that.”

He added: “I had already persuaded [Coleman] to come back and do Christmas and [said], ‘I’ve got a big ending for you where you turn out to be an old lady and you die at the end as an old lady.’

“That was the original ending to Last Christmas, and the ending we had at the read-through… and after the read-through, we went into a side room with Jenna where she was just, she wasn’t ready to go. She thought she was ready to go, and I think in my heart, I knew she wasn’t ready to go, and she said, ‘I’m not sure I’m actually ready to go.'”

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