Ncuti Gatwa is opening up about why he left “Physician Who” after solely two seasons.

In a brand new interview on the BBC’s “Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg,” the “Barbie” and “Intercourse Schooling” star was requested his reasoning for stepping away from the enduring sci-fi present.

“As a result of I’m getting previous and my physique was drained,” Gatwa mentioned, including that the present “takes so much out of you — bodily, emotionally, mentally. So it was time.”

Nonetheless, when Kuenssberg questioned if he’d ever return to the Tardis in the future — like David Tennant did lately — Gatwa quipped, “By no means say by no means.”

It was revealed that Gatwa’s time because the Physician was over in Could, through the finale of the present’s second season as a co-production between the BBC and Disney+. Gatwa’s Physician was regenerated into Billie Piper, who beforehand performed companion Rose Tyler in 2005 and 2006. What Piper’s return means for the sequence has not been detailed, and it has not but been renewed for a 3rd season by the BBC and Disney+.

Gatwa is making the press rounds for his newest theater endeavor, the play “Born With Enamel” during which he stars as playwright Christopher Marlowe alongside Edward Bluemel’s William Shakespeare. It’s set to premiere in London on Aug. 13. In an interview with The Guardian, Gatwa known as enjoying the Physician “a present of a job,” although he needed to get “fairly good at shutting the noise out.”

“It’s loud. However it’s very cool and thrilling to be in the midst of this big factor – there’s haters, there’s lovers, it’s all happening,” he mentioned. “It’s an absolute present of a job, and a present of a neighborhood. The Whovians are so deeply in my coronary heart, I can’t inform you.”

Gatwa mentioned whereas at Glastonbury Pageant, he ran into fellow former Physician Matt Smith “in a membership” and the 2 bonded over the expertise. “We had nice, deep chats about that job and the way there’ll by no means be one other prefer it in our lifetimes,” he mentioned. “We’ll by no means work that tough once more. By no means be as stimulated and stretched. It’s additionally very exhausting, so it’s pretty to delve into different tasks.”