After swapping the Coronation Road cobbles for Physician Who’s Tardis, Millie Gibson’s profession is about to go stratospheric. Forward of her first outing within the Physician Who Christmas particular, she chats to Josh Smith for his GLAMOUR column, Josh Smith Meets, about bringing the Time Lord and his companion into our occasions.
How do you image getting the decision that you’ve got landed your dream job? Properly, when Millie Gibson came upon she landed the position of Ruby Sunday, the brand new companion to the fifteenth Physician Who, performed by Intercourse Schooling star Ncuti Gatwa – she was in a sticky state of affairs to say the least.
“I had simply obtained a sprig tan,” Millie laughs, telling me from her residence by way of Zoom: “So I used to be simply within the ready room, ready for it to dry, standing there after which my cellphone simply stored buzzing. And I used to be like, ‘What’s going on with that cellphone?’ It was a bunch name, and once you get a bunch name from all three of your brokers, it’s like, ‘Oh my God, I’ve both been cancelled or I’ve obtained an excellent half.’ So I picked it up. They usually had been like, ‘Can you retain a secret? You bought the half!’ Nevertheless it was so prime secret, I could not inform anybody. I used to be too scared to inform my mum, however clearly I did!”
And identical to that, with the unmistakable scent of biscuit/pretend tan wafting round her, Millie’s life modified. Did she handle to maintain it a secret for lengthy? “I obtained backed right into a nook a bit bit with worry. They had been actually identical to, ‘In case you inform anybody, it might jeopardise this half.’ No secret is value that,” she shares. “After I obtained introduced on Kids In Want, I had so lots of my family and friends messaging me, being like, ‘What the hell? Why did not you inform us that you simply obtained this half?’ It is so humorous as a result of I am too scared to even take footage on set generally, since you simply do not know what is going on to occur if I by accident put it on my [Instagram] Story or one thing once I’m drunk.” Millie actually will get extra iconic by the second once you converse to her, so it’s straightforward to see why she landed the position.
Earlier than she finds an entire new fandom when she makes her Physician Who debut within the Christmas Day particular, the 19 year-old is presently best-known for her four-year stint enjoying Kelly on the nation’s longest operating cleaning soap, Coronation Road. However the place was Millie at in life when Physician Who got here calling? “It was on my very, final day on Coronation Road. My agent rang me up and he was like, ‘Hello, how are you feeling?’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, I am a bit bit put out at this time. It is my final day. I will miss everybody… and questioning if I made the fitting choice or not.’ After which he was like, ‘Properly, this may cheer up!’”