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New Doctor Who Jodie ­Whittaker will be travelling through time but the future was never her best subject.

The actress, who will play the 13th Doctor, once insisted a woman would never take over the TARDIS.

Jodie, 36, made the prediction in a newly discovered interview she gave in 2007 – a decade before ­becoming the first ­female Doctor Who.

Talking to her ­local paper about leaving drama school, she said: “When we were training it was a 50/50 male/female split but we knew when we came out that 80 per cent of acting jobs are for men.

“A woman is never going to get to be Bond or Doctor Who. That will never happen.”

Jodie made TV ­history last year when it was announced she would replace departing 12th Doctor, Peter Capaldi.

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge, star of BBC 3 comedy Fleabag, and Death In Paradise actor Kris Marshall had been favourites to land the iconic TV role.

Back in 2007, Yorkshire-born Jodie also feared that where she came from might stop her landing top roles.

She told North London’s Ham and High newspaper: “It’s the same with being from up North too I suppose, you’re type-cast into Northern girl.”

Jodie made her professional debut in 2005, when she starred in The Storm at London’s Globe theatre.

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She moved onto TV dramas such as ITV’s Broadchurch. In BBC 1’s Trust Me she played sacked nurse Cath Hardacre, who has to take drastic measures to provide for her daughter.

Mum-of-one Jodie is married to American actor Christian Contreras.

She has urged Doctor Who fans not to worry about their hero’s new gender. Jodie said: “This is a really exciting time and Doctor Who represents everything that’s ­exciting about change.

“The fans have lived through so many changes and this is only a new, different one, not a fearful one.”