In an interview with Buzzfeed, Piper was asked if she would be willing to reprise her role in her own spin-off if she received a call from franchise showrunner Russell T. Davies, who also recently came back for the job.
“If it was shot in London – sorry that’s a really loveless answer! There’s a running theme here, I don’t want to work much. It was like four episodes all shot in London, then yeah, I’d be like a rat-up-a-drainpipe for that.” she responded.
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Rose had her first encounter with the Doctor just after midnight on January 1, 2005. Soon after, the two came to an agreement to accompany each other in time-travel. For their first trip, the Doctor took Rose to Platform One in the year 5,000,000,000 to watch the Earth as it got consumed by the sun.
In the season’s finale, Piper had to bid farewell to her character when she got trapped in a parallel universe with a different version of the Doctor. The actress returned in 2013 for the show’s 50th anniversary special, not as Rose but as the Bad Wolf, the consciousness of the Time Lord’s world-destroying device known as the Moment.
If Piper were to return to portray the companion in her own spin-off, she would join another classic Doctor Who companion, Sarah-Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen), who led her own show, The Sarah-Jane Adventures, from 2007 to 2011.
Piper’s Doctor Who companion was a beloved favorite. In her time as a cast member, she starred alongside both Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant. When asked what moment in the series she would change if given the chance, the actress had only one answer.
She said, “Oh my God, for sure, the Doctor Who ending where I go off with the second Doctor instead of the real Doctor to the parallel universe.”
Doctor Who will return on November 23, 2023.
