Varada Sethu makes her first look because the Physician’s new companion, Belinda Chandra, in a teaser trailer for Sequence 15 of Physician Who. Sethu beforehand portrayed Mundy Flynn in Sequence 14. Notably, Sequence 15 is also called Season 2 within the promotional supplies as a result of manufacturing modifications, and the truth that Disney+ now has worldwide broadcasting rights to the present.
Varada Sethu seems as Belinda Chandra in a brand new teaser for Physician Who Sequence 15
The brand new teaser for Physician Who Sequence 15 or Season 2 options, amongst different characters, Varada Sethu’s Belinda Chandra, the most recent companion of Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Physician. The teaser reveals Belinda interacting with the Physician and asking him to get her dwelling.
The teaser trailer premiered following the conclusion of Physician Who’s 2024 Christmas Particular, titled “Pleasure to the World.”
Sethu’s casting as Belinda was initially introduced in January 2024. Numerous shops on the time reported that Sethu would exchange Millie Gibson’s Ruby Sunday because the Physician’s new companion. However, it was later revealed that these characters would seem collectively in Sequence 15. Certainly, each Sethu and Gibson seem within the teaser trailer alongside Gatwa. The identify of Sethu’s character was disclosed on the San Diego Comedian-Con in July 2024.
Mundy Flynn, the earlier character Sethu performed in Physician Who, seems within the episode “Growth” (Sequence 14 Episode 3). She is an Anglican marine who the Fifteenth Physician and Ruby encounter within the 12 months 5087. Showrunner Russell T. Davies confirmed to SFX journal that Sethu wouldn’t reprise Mundy, earlier than explaining how she landed the position of a companion.
“It’s a type of quite simple conditions, like with Freema [Agyeman, who played Adeola Oshodi in Army Of Ghosts before portraying Martha Jones]: once you solid an important actor, you want a brand new companion,” Davies mentioned. “I used to be watching, like, the fifteenth edit of Growth, loving her. Each time I watch her, I believe, ‘God, she’s sensible.’ I actually suppose she’s sensible. I used to look at her considering, ‘God, what a disgrace we are able to’t work along with her once more,” he added. (through Collider)
Notably, Sethu’s appearing credit embody Now You See Me 2, Annika, and Andor. Physician Who Sequence 15 premieres on BBC One and Disney+ someday in 2025.