{"id":36291,"date":"2022-08-31T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=36291"},"modified":"2022-08-30T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:10:20","slug":"which-role-would-matt-smith-most-like-to-revisit-the-answer-may-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/08\/31\/which-role-would-matt-smith-most-like-to-revisit-the-answer-may-surprise-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Role Would Matt Smith Most Like to Revisit? The Answer May Surprise You…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Matt Smith says there is a particular role he’d like to revisit, to play again, and no, it’s not the lead in Doctor Who<\/em>. Nonetheless, it’s a role oddly linked to Doctor Who<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While promoting the Game of Thrones<\/em> spin-off, House of the Dragon<\/em>, in which he plays Daemon Targaryen, Matt was asked if there’s a part he’d like to play again, and enthused<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Yeah, there is actually. There\u2019s a part in a film called Lost River<\/em>, which Ryan Gosling directed. It was a part called Bully and he was absolutely out of his box. I wore a gold sparkly jacket and a horseshoe here [points to his trousers]. And he used to go and cut people\u2019s lips off. He was proper mad and I’d love to revisit him and shave my head again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Unexpected, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, River Song isn’t the link here, seeing as Alex Kingston isn’t in Lost River<\/em>; the link is actually Matt shaving his hair off — he did this ready for shooting the Gosling-helmed movie, but before he shot his swansong as the Eleventh Doctor. That meant he had to wear a hairpiece throughout The Time of the Doctor<\/em>, hence him whipping his wig off during the episode to reveal the TARDIS key.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obviously, this doesn’t mean Matt doesn’t want to play the Eleventh Doctor again. There are persistent rumours<\/a> that he will again for the 60th anniversary, in fact!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, Matt probably just wanted to give an honest, if kooky and unexpected, answer this time around. Doctor Who<\/em> fans don’t always need pandering to! And Mat’s credits are extensive, so fair play to him for not giving an easy response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lost River<\/em> also starred Christina Hendricks, Iain De Caestecker, Saoirse Ronan, and Ben Mendelsohn, so might be worth a watch if you haven’t seen it already. Admittedly, it isn’t exactly critically-acclaimed, but who cares what critics think, eh?<\/p>\n

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Does Matt want to return for The Crown? Morbius 2? Party Animals? Or none of the above?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"Which Role Would Matt Smith Most Like to Revisit? The Answer May Surprise You... (I.e. 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