And it depends on where the story is taken, I think. MS: It depends on how long Steven writes for the show because I’ll only do it with Steven. It’s not going to be forever and you have to enjoy it while it’s here and take it seriously but not too seriously and smile because it could be worse.ĪE: How long would you like to play the Doctor? A part with this many levels and there is so much to play in a part like this. With that said, a part like this doesn’t come along very often. MS: I’ve never considered it a problem to be typecast because A, I don’t think good actors get typecast and B, in ten years time I’ll be playing very different roles.
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Plus, it let’s you put your own stamp on a very iconic character but you also aren’t going to be typecast as being “just the Doctor” because so many actors have been the Doctor by now. Once you’ve successfully played the part, you have worldwide fame that opens all sorts of doors for you.
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It’s interesting.ĪE: It seems like playing the Doctor for an actor is like a dream role. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job. MS: I don’t think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is.
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There are so many things that surprise me on the show from different sets to the actors you might get in to the way the story is told to the response from fans and the transition that you go into with your own life having a show with such a popular precedence.ĪE: What’s the most surprising thing about this level of fame? Were you prepared for this? Thousands of people genuinely supporting you, things like that are just incredible. Like going to Comic-Con was such a remarkable experience. So you just have to take it on the chin really and get on with it and hope that you can keep challenging people and pushing the part forward.ĪE: What’s been the most surprising part about actually playing the Doctor? It’s the fans they’ve kept it going all this time. I try to do my best and I hope that people enjoy it but actually I think everyone feels the support from the fans of the Doctor because that’s what makes this show brilliant. Matt Smith: I mean I don’t see it as vindication really, it’s about trying to do your best to play your part and that’s all I ever try to do. Adding to the pressure faced by Smith was the fact that he had to follow in the footsteps of the immensely popular David Tennant, who played the Doctor from 2005 to 2010, and who helped the franchise reach an unprecedented level of success, not just in the UK, but around the world.Ī caught up with Smith at the Television Critics Association Summer Tour in Los Angeles where Smith, looking every bit the star (it was the sunglasses that did it), discussed the sudden fame that came with playing the Doctor, the risks of being typecast, and how the explicit gay love scenes he had in Christopher and His Kind showed him that he didn’t have a “… gay bone in my body.”ĪfterElton: Do you feel vindicated by how successful you’ve been as the Doctor? A lot of folks thought you were too young to for the part or not high profile enough to take on the role. But at least when Daniel Radcliffe was cast as Harry Potter he wasn’t following in the shoes of other actors who had already played the part, often to wild acclaim.īut that was exactly the situation Smith faced in 2009 when he was cast as the 11th incarnation of the Doctor on the iconic British show Doctor Who. British actor Matt Smith is hardly the first person to be plucked from relative obscurity and handed a role guaranteed to make him famous around the world.