Neil Patrick Harris' Doctor Who villain arrived with some slightly racist elements.

Is Neil Patrick Harris' Toymaker Racist in Doctor Who?

And that’s not the actor’s fault.

Neil Patrick Harris in Doctor Who

I’m not blaming the actor at all.

I don’t know how much of that was unconscious at the time."

You must be used to sunnier climes."

Doctor Who Neil Patrick Harris Toymaker

BANERJEE: “I was born in Cheltenham.”

He’s a murderer.

He’s a mass murderer.

Doctor Who Michael Gough Toymaker

Look at that."

And, ‘Are you going to get big speeches off the puppet?’

I don’t think so.

Doctor Who Neil Patrick Harris Toymaker

So I literally thought, ‘Well you need a puppet master.’

And the next thought along from that is Toymaker."

And I had problems with that.

Doctor Who Neil Patrick Harris Toymaker Charles Banerjee

And a lot of us on the production team had problems with that, of associating disability with evil.

And trust me, there’s a very long tradition of this."

However, the BBC recentlyannouncedit will be releasing an animated reconstruction of the tale at some point next year.

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