CARDIFF (Wales) - Jodie Whittaker, the 13th actor to play the iconic Time Lord Doctor Who, had just left the underground station near her London home when she saw him - a young man walking behind her, dressed exactly like her on-screen character.
"I thought, 'Oh no, this guy will now know where I live,'" recalls the 37-year-old actress on the television show's set in Cardiff, Wales.
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