Female 'Doctor Who' Rumors: Hayley Atwell Twitter Post Reveals BBC Show Dream Casting

In a new Q&A session with her Twitter followers, Marvel's Agent Carter series star Hayley Atwell dropped a bombshell on the popular woman Doctor Who debate. Should the Time-Lord regenerate into a female somewhere down the line or is The Doctor only a man? Whatever you think, Atwell's recent announcement of wanting to play the lead in the BBC series has a lot of mutual comic book and fantasy TV fans excited for the possibility. Read more on this news below.

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Atwell has a big fanbase these days, thanks to her numerous appearances as Peggy Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which evolved into her own series on ABC. She's also known for keeping an open dialogue with her fans, and this random Q&A session on Twitter is just another example of this.

She opened up the floodgates while waiting for a plane and asked for questions from fans as long as they were clean. Atwell said she'd answer the first 30 tweets she saw. One of these questions was a fan asking if the actress would ever like to appear on Doctor Who some time, but Hayley's answer was one of the best answers ever.

Check out this Twitter conversation right here:

@ohmyjlc I'd like to BE Doctor Who

— Hayley Atwell (@HayleyAtwell) August 14, 2015

Reports from iO9, Comic Book Resources, the Mary Sue and more are already fawning over the idea of Atwell becoming the Doctor, but for now it's just wishful thinking.

There has been some opposition to this idea from Doctor Who icon Sylvester McCoy. Check out our previous coverage on this news.

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