AfterElton Interviews with Matt Smith & Steven Moffat
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. 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.
But 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. 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.
AfterElton.com 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."
Interview: http://www.afterelton.com/people/2011/08/doctor-who-matt-smith-gay
And there's an interview with the Moff as well ... http://www.afterelton.com/people/2011/08/doctor-who-steven-moffat-gay