And you’re never going to be able to recreate that. Obviously, you’re standing on the legacy of a show that had a big impact on people. “I haven’t seen it yet - and often your experience of making it is different from your experience of watching it,” he observes. I think you become an overnight…” He searches for the right word, before settling on “something.”Įven the show he’s here to talk up, HBO’s $200m Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon, is discussed with a certain caution. At one point, he pushes back on the suggestion that Doctor Who made him an overnight superstar, saying: “I’m not sure that’s quite correct. This modesty - which is slightly at odds with the rock-star poses he’s just spent the past few hours striking for Rolling Stone UK’s shoot, a task completed with lightning-fast efficiency and zero fuss - is a recurring feature during our conversation. Am I somewhere in the middle? Probably, yeah.” Matt wears denim jacket by Off-White at END., top by Sunspel at Is it as bad as some others? Probably not. Has it been as good as some people’s trajectories and careers? Probably not. “You’re sort of rolling the dice with every job, and it could go either way. “It’s strange, as an actor,” he says, reflecting on the decade since he handed over his TARDIS key.
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By any metric, the 39-year-old is one of Britain’s most successful actors: no other former Doctor Who, for example, has made a bigger splash in Hollywood, to say nothing of his Emmy-nominated turn as a young Duke of Edinburgh in Netflix’s The Crown. Hence our current quest, on a muggy summer’s afternoon in London, to find the nearest pub - a journey he appears to be undertaking as much in hope as expectation.īut then, travelling hopefully is very much the Matt Smith way.
He likes the “adventure”, he says, of finding his own way around.
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