Doctor Who season 10 spoilers: Game of Thrones actress snags role

The Game of Thrones – Doctor Who relationship is a fun one these days. For multiple episodes of this past season, we saw a recurring presence from Maisie Williams as Ashildr, the character whose motives were almost as difficult to spell out as her name.

Now, we’re hearing of the latest Game of Thrones name to sign up to be a part of the series in Samantha Spiro. Per the Radio Times, the actress let the news slip during a recent BBC Breakfast appearance that she will be playing a part on the show. Yet, she followed that with this: “I can’t say how, I can’t say who, I can’t say where.” In other words, good luck getting any more information out of her, probably in fear that the BBC would send the Daleks in her direction if she lets loose any more information. The show’s insanely secretive!

In addition to playing Melessa Tarly (another character with a name spelled in some inexplicable manner) on Game of Thrones, some of Spiro’s other credits include playing Lady Macbeth in a feature film adaptation of the Shakespeare work to go along with several episodes of Tracey Ullman’s Show and the movie Me Before You, which ironically starred another Game of Thrones actor in Emilia Clarke. Given that Daenerys hasn’t exactly spent much time with House Tarly, that wasn’t so much of a reunion between performers who knew each other.

Moving into the next new episode of Doctor Who, we’re set to see an installment that is about one of the creepiest houses imaginable, and the attempts from The Doctor and Bill Potts to understand what is the origin of its madness. (You can read up about that further over at this link.) While it is possible that Spiro will be appearing in this episode, her comments suggest that we’re looking further at some episode down the road.

Side note — wouldn’t it be funny if Spiro was playing The Doctor, and the BBC was setting us up for some elaborate misdirection where we rule her out only for her to be revealed in the role down the line? That’s surely not happening, mostly because A) the BBC doesn’t conjure up such trickery and B) whoever the next Doctor is will likely be locked in the Tower of London until they make their announcement.

Like the casting? Feel free to share in the comments. For American viewers, new episodes of Doctor Who air Saturdays at 9:00 p.m. Eastern on BBC America. (Photo: BBC.)