Doctor Who alum Alex Kingston admits she was originally "conflicted" about Jodie Whittaker's casting

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"To be honest, at first I was a little conflicted because I just thought, 'All those little boys, how are they going to handle it?" the ER and Doctor Who alum said in a British TV interview. "But then I thought when Peter Capaldi played the Doctor, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, how are those young kids going to be able to relate to – sorry Peter – somebody who could be their grandfather?' But, they all totally embraced him and it's because he is the Doctor and Jodie is the Doctor because it's the same spirit inside so it doesn’t matter."