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Watch Peter Capaldi Explain Turning Down a Chance to Play the Doctor Because He Was Too Big a Fan

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Published: Nov 18, 2014 05:36 pm

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In a video just posted on the Doctor Who YouTube page, Peter Capaldi admits to something shocking (Which we mentioned earlier today but felt we needed to make a much bigger deal out of!). He had the chance to audition for Doctor Who previously and TURNED. IT. DOWN. Well, there’s a bit more too it than that. Listen to him tell the story which surprised even Steven Moffat, which includes something we already knew about Capaldi – he’s a huge Doctor Who fan.

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Jill Pantozzi
Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."