Jinkx Monsoon seems to be wickedly camp in new Physician Who trailer. (YouTube/@DoctorWho)
RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Jinkx Monsoon is the campest villain in the entire Whoniverse within the trailer for Ncuti Gatwa’s debut season of Physician Who.
Double Drag Race winner Jinkx Monsoon is adept within the artwork of exterminating: on Drag Race season 5 and All Stars 7, she slayed her opponents with ease and have become the primary queen in herstory to bag two crowns.
Now, she’s firmly on the aspect of the OG exterminators – the Daleks, in fact – by going face to face with Ncuti Gatwa‘s The Physician within the upcoming new season of Physician Who.
Within the explosive new trailer, launched yesterday (31 March), followers get to see a quick clip of theatre star Jinkx as she rises from behind a piano, decked out in her now-signature, musical-themed villainess apparel.
She dons her traditional ginger wig as she menacingly taunts: “You known as?”
Jinkx’s position within the upcoming season, which is about for launch on 11 Could, is presently nonetheless beneath wraps. Nevertheless, followers are sure that she is about to tackle the infamous position of villain “The Grasp” or, in its feminine incarnation, “The Mistress”.
Elsewhere within the action-packed trailer, followers get a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it take a look at Heartstopper favorite Yasmin Finney again in her position as Rose Noble, following her debut within the sixtieth anniversary specials final November.
Confirming his standing as probably the most jaw-droppingly fashionable Physician to-date, Intercourse Schooling star Ncuti Gatwa, 31, seems to be strapping in an array of slick and swanky outfits.
Gatwa is the primary out queer actor to play the Physician, and his iteration of the character was confirmed to be queer himself in final 12 months’s Christmas particular. The upcoming collection sees him joined by new companion Ruby Sunday (Coronation Road’s Millie Gibson) as they flit between the previous, current and future amid quite a few makes an attempt to save lots of the world.
In simply two minutes, the tailer options dancing, dinosaurs, and earth-destroying storms, swords and house infants, and a sea of flames – and, clearly, monsters.
It additionally confirms that the model new season, helmed by queer TV legend Russell T Davies, is dubbed “season one”. It heralds in a model new period after the sixtieth anniversary specials, and following Jodie Whittaker’s remaining outing because the thirteenth Physician in season 13 in 2021.
Along with the trailer, followers had been yesterday handled to the episode titles for season one.
The primary two episodes, “Area Infants” and “The Satan’s Chord” – the latter probably being Jinkx Monsoon’s episode, given the music-related title – will air on the identical day, 11 Could.
They may land on BBC iPlayer at midnight, earlier than airing back-to-back later that night forward of the Eurovision Tune Contest remaining.
Following episodes will air each Saturday till late June.
Worldwide Physician Who followers will be capable to watch the brand new season on Disney+.