New Doctor Who supremo Steven Moffat reveals why we won't be able to take our
eyes off the Youngest Time Lord yet.
Because Matt Smith is the youngest actor to play the Doctor, people might be
thinking they'll get a "young geezer'" Doctor, but he isn't that. He's restored
the most professional aspect of the character - he's very much the "nutty
professor" Doctor.
What I least expected from Matt, given the nature of the modern Doctor, is that
at times he's very quiet: the strong, quiet man. I suppose I thought
instinctively that he'd be a leaping-about, loud Doctor, as we've got used to.
Yet some of Matt's most powerful moments are when he's very, very quiet ...
very, very gentle, in a way that a very powerful person can be. There's a scene
I watched just recently in which he's chillingly: a big confrontation with the
alien scene, and instead of playing it - as he could have - in a much more
bombastic way, he was very quiet, very matter of fact, very simple. It's all
implied strength rather than demonstrated bluster.
Matt carries off the gravitas thing perfectly and has no difficulty at all in
lording it over other people. He has scenes with Winston Churchill - in which he
behaves like Winston Churchill's dad! And you have no difficulty in buying that
on-screen. And then of course he'll behave like a complete spoilt chi;d, which
is what what the Doctor has to do - to suddenly become a huge kid.
He's a terribly distinctive actor. And he has the most extraordinary face. He
was born to play an alien, because it doesn't quite add up. He'll hate me for
saying this, but he looks like a caricature of a handsome man; it's all just a
bit too much: perfect profile, perfect jaw-line, extraordinary. And the camera
adores him. So, you'll be seeing a lot of that face, suffering (lolzzzz) in
close up, I tell you!
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