Actor, Matt Smith, guesses lines from some of his hit movies and television shows including, 'Doctor Who,' 'The Crown,' 'House of the Dragon,' 'Last Night in Soho,' and 'Terminator Genisys.'
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00:00 Come on, give us another one.
00:02 Film or TV show?
00:03 Are you allowed to give clues? Film.
00:06 Leave it to some other idiot to pick which one.
00:09 Let's get this bad boy on the road.
00:16 Here we go. OK.
00:19 Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
00:21 God, who said that?
00:23 Prince Philip.
00:26 No.
00:27 No. Better a broken heart than no heart at all.
00:31 Was it The Doctor?
00:33 It was The Doctor, and he said it to...
00:36 ..Amy Pond.
00:37 He said it to River Song, Alex Kingston.
00:40 He said it to an alien.
00:42 It was from A Christmas Carol, and I said it to Katherine Jenkins.
00:45 It's Michael Gambon, of course.
00:48 Better a broken heart than no heart at all. Try it.
00:51 The great Michael Gambon, by the way.
00:53 What an absolute joy it was to work with him.
00:55 He was just incredible.
00:56 Like many of us in England, he's sort of been a hero of mine.
01:00 It was a coup that we got him in Doctor Who.
01:02 I just have such great fondness about that whole part, really,
01:05 and that moment in my life, and getting to know Karen so well,
01:09 who I love, Karen Gillan, the legend that is.
01:11 OK, bye. First one out of the way.
01:13 OK.
01:16 You know how to dance.
01:18 You know why you're here.
01:20 Get on with it. I know who that is.
01:22 Any guys, you know how to dance. You know why you're here.
01:24 Get on with it.
01:26 And it was Jack in Last Night In Soho, brilliant Edgar Wright,
01:29 and he sang it to Anya Taylor-Joy.
01:31 You know how to dance. You know why you're here.
01:34 Get on with it.
01:35 You got to...
01:37 Poor Anya, who had to dance all day, by the way,
01:40 but, like everything, did it completely effortlessly.
01:42 I wouldn't really class myself as a dancer, per se.
01:46 I'm not particularly good at it.
01:47 But, you know, I mean, I liked dancing in that movie
01:49 because I thought it looked cool, and Jen, the choreographer,
01:52 was just so detailed.
01:54 And there was a cool thing with the cigarette, actually,
01:56 which we ended up keeping in, where it smokes and flicks it away.
02:00 But, you know, it's different when you're dancing next to
02:03 Anya Taylor-Joy, who looks, she's in, like, peach sort of chiffon.
02:06 Looking amazing.
02:07 Go on, give us another one.
02:11 What else am I supposed to do?
02:16 Sit around and wait for you while you're queening.
02:19 Queening? She goes, "Yes, queening.
02:20 "Ah, yeah, the joy that is clairvoyant."
02:22 Well, that's Prince Philip, and he's sat.
02:25 He's getting moody about all her queening, I think.
02:28 What else am I supposed to do?
02:29 Sit around and wait for you while you're queening.
02:31 What did I learn about Philip while researching him?
02:34 That he's a total fucking legend, to be honest.
02:37 I loved him. He was really progressive.
02:38 And people, particularly in England,
02:40 thought he was this sort of social dinosaur, really,
02:44 and was actually quite regressive.
02:46 Not regressive, but, you know, he was known for sort of
02:48 falling into gaffes and saying the wrong thing
02:50 and being a bit of a buffoon,
02:52 and actually nothing could be further from the truth.
02:54 He was really bright, really clever.
02:58 And, you know, what I did learn and really appreciate about him
03:02 in the end was that his...
03:04 A, his sort of fortitude was remarkable,
03:07 but B, his service and his diligence to the role,
03:11 ultimately, and to her, to the Queen,
03:13 and therefore to the country.
03:15 And I don't know, you know, people can't help it.
03:18 People come at it from a different angle,
03:20 but I think he made a great sacrifice, really.
03:23 I wasn't particularly a royalist before it.
03:26 My grandad certainly wasn't a royalist.
03:28 When I told him that I was playing Prince Philip,
03:30 he went, "Bloody hell, you're not playing that book."
03:33 Which is... He was from Nottingham.
03:35 He could not bear him,
03:37 and he couldn't bear the Royal Family, to be honest.
03:39 What are we on? What are we on?
03:41 All our lives, we have lived with deaths hanging over us.
03:46 Well, I mean, it can only be...
03:48 Is it Damon?
03:49 Targaryen?
03:50 No.
03:52 All our lives, we have lived with deaths hanging over us.
03:55 All our lives, we have lived with deaths hanging over us.
03:59 Film or TV show?
04:01 Are you allowed to give clues? Film.
04:02 It's not Mapplethorpe, is it?
04:05 Oh, crikey, Moses.
04:11 It's Milo in Morbius.
04:15 Good old Morbius.
04:16 All our lives, we have lived with deaths hanging over us.
04:20 I was rather disappointed, actually,
04:22 because I just broke out into Richard III in the subway one day.
04:26 Honestly, like, it was because what I quite liked,
04:29 which maybe ultimately didn't work,
04:30 but, like, Daniel used to let me just improvise stuff.
04:34 None of it made it in, really.
04:36 But, like, I used to, like, just rock out.
04:39 Like, I literally did pretty much most of that first speech.
04:44 In a sort of angry vampire mode.
04:46 I mean, this was before the Joker came out, by the way,
04:48 but I wanted it to feel a bit like it had that element of sort of...
04:53 It sounds so wanky, doesn't it?
04:55 But there was a jazz about him.
04:56 There was, like, because this is the guy who was totally...
05:00 Had been impeded and, you know, physically impaired his whole life.
05:05 And I think, emotionally, that had kind of scarred him so much
05:08 that suddenly, when he drank the good stuff,
05:12 he became, you know, King Kong or whatever.
05:16 HE WHISPERS
05:18 He can keep his tongue. I know that.
05:23 That's Damon Targaryen.
05:25 BELL RINGS
05:26 He can keep his tongue.
05:28 Well, and what happened there was, frustratingly, let me tell you.
05:33 So, the week before, or two weeks before,
05:37 I'd slipped a disc in my neck.
05:40 In Portugal, doing a stunt on some cobbles in the armour.
05:44 And so, if you notice, when you sort of rewatch any of that, really,
05:48 in the last two episodes, I'm just completely kind of still,
05:52 cos I couldn't move.
05:53 There was a lot of doubles involved in that day
05:55 and quite minimal swinging from me.
05:57 Like 12 months we shot for, I think, in the end.
06:00 And all those scenes where, like, the wedding scene,
06:03 when we were all together, it became like the last day of school every day.
06:06 We were just losing our mind.
06:08 And then this food is sort of...
06:09 Cos we were shooting those scenes for, like, two weeks
06:12 and all this food is just rotting slowly, smelling the place out.
06:17 But I do look back on those scenes with fondness,
06:20 cos we had a right old laugh.
06:21 I think I've got some great stuff coming up with Ewan, obviously,
06:24 who plays Aemond.
06:25 You know, we've got some exciting sort of new and young actors
06:28 coming through.
06:30 I don't know, I'm quite looking forward to getting my hands dirty again
06:33 in the old battles, basically.
06:35 Cos I think that Damon goes on quite a strange journey this year.
06:38 Without giving too much away.
06:40 Ooh, got another.
06:44 Now, this is quite a long one.
06:45 "Just pick a random number,
06:47 "express that number as a quantity of minutes,
06:49 "and when the time has elapsed, remind me to patch the telephone
06:52 "back through the console unit."
06:53 Well, that's got to be the doctor, hasn't it? My Lord.
06:55 "Just pick a random number, express that number as a quantity of minutes,
06:58 "and when that time has elapsed, remind me to patch the telephone
07:01 "back through the console unit."
07:02 I mean, this was the thing, you know, that's like a tiny segment
07:06 of what was probably Stephen Moffat writing.
07:09 But, like, the line learning for that job was insatiable.
07:12 And David Tennant, God love him, said to me,
07:15 when I sort of phoned him and got the job and asked him
07:17 for different bits of advice, he was really generous with that,
07:20 he was like, "Learn all of your lines on Sunday,
07:22 "because you've got to go back and do them,
07:24 "because you're shooting, like, ten pages a day."
07:27 He's the vocal point for, you know, the exposition, essentially,
07:32 because he's saying everything that he sees,
07:34 and obviously it's television, so you're not doing it visually
07:37 in quite the same way that you would in a film.
07:39 You've got to explain what's going on to the audience,
07:41 because the story has to move so quickly.
07:44 So the line learning was just off the Richter scale, like, a lot.
07:48 One of the greatest experiences of my life,
07:50 and not just mine, you know, my family and my friends,
07:52 because it's such...
07:54 A, to be so closely connected with a part like that,
07:59 for the legacy of it, one, but also just for the day-to-day
08:01 of being, like, having to think like the Doctor is sort of magic, really.
08:07 Yes.
08:08 "I didn't attack John, I saved him."
08:11 Who, in the name of Clive, is John?
08:15 Where have I met a John?
08:17 I didn't attack John.
08:19 I saved him.
08:21 John.
08:26 I didn't attack John, I saved him.
08:29 Who's saving who and why is there a John?
08:32 Oh!
08:34 Skynet!
08:35 Well, that was, you know, my rather brief time in that world.
08:41 I didn't attack John.
08:43 I saved him.
08:46 So it was quite strange, you know, when I'm filming, like,
08:49 my first day was with Arnold Schwarzenegger,
08:51 and he was in, like, just the top half,
08:54 and, like, green spandex, like, green screen,
08:58 like, green screen trousers, and I was like,
09:01 "What the fuck is going on, man?"
09:03 And I'm playing a computer, you know.
09:06 It was just, it was quite bizarre.
09:09 Last one.
09:13 Oh, no. Can I have an apple?
09:14 Doctor Who.
09:15 Can I have an apple?
09:17 Isn't that my first line in the whole show?
09:22 And then he hits the tree,
09:24 and then I go in and I eat fish fingers and custard,
09:26 which I tried for real, by the way,
09:28 and then I ate 12, 12 of the little fish fingers.
09:32 Sophia Okineda actually really helped me on my first episode,
09:36 which I filmed with her.
09:39 When she came up to me and was like,
09:40 "Look, you know, you have to lead this show."
09:43 I didn't really know. I was only 25.
09:45 I was like, "What?" You know.
09:46 And I did from that point on.
09:48 Looking back, I used to spend a lot of time
09:50 in, like, my local video store,
09:52 spending hours trying to pick a, like, pick a movie,
09:57 which isn't indicative to my personality in a way.
09:59 I spent hours doing anything.
10:01 But I always, I loved the adventure of films and story.
10:05 But here we are...
10:06 ..talking about lines like, "Can I have an apple?"
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