Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) finds herself in the distant future in Can You Hear Me? (2020).
It’s December 2019, and at London’s Soho Hotel Doctor Who Magazine is catching up with Mandip Gill, who is “buzzing” about her most recent season of Doctor Who. Series 12 is due to launch with the explosive two-parter Spyfall on New Year’s Day.
“We went into our second series doing something completely different to what we’d done before,” says Mandip, who plays the Doctor’s friend Yasmin Khan. Recording Spyfall, she says, “felt like filming a James Bond movie. It was a very exciting genre to touch upon. Fast paced, with fast cars and planes - all that kind of stuff. Coming back after a couple of months off, it was amazing to be able to jump in a car and it was all like, ‘It’s reversing: scream now!