Matt Smith is Prince Phillip!

[Starkers]

in a new Netflix drama...

I wonder if he'll be in all ten episodes and they'll age him (again!) or else whether he'd just be playing Phil the Greek in the opening episodes? Either way sounds like a good gig for him.

Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith will portray a young Prince Phillip in The Crown, a new 10-part Netflix drama…


Interesting one, this – Mr Matt Smith has signed up for a role in The Crown, a new Netflix series based on the play The Audience. He will portray a young Prince Phillip, AKA Philip Mountbatten, AKA the Duke of Edinburgh.

The Audience play was all about Queen Elizabeth II, and her interactions with several prime ministers in the post-World War II years. Netflix’s The Crown will cover the same ground over a ten-episode structure. Here’s the synopsis…

“The Crown tells the inside story of two of the most famous addresses in the world - Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street - and the intrigues, love lives and machinations behind the great events that shaped the second half of the 20th century."
The cast so far includes Wolf Hall’s Claire Foy as Queen Elizabeth II, and John Lithgow (of 3rd Rock From The Sun, Interstellar and many more projects besides) as Winston Churchill. You don’t need us to tell you that Matt Smith has met Winston Churchill on screen before, but there you go, we mentioned it anyway.

Netflix is said to be spending big on The Crown (the figure $100 million has been banded about), so this marks another sizeable production on Smith’s growing non-Doctor Who CV that already includes Terminator Genisys, Ryan Gosling’s Lost River and the upcoming action thriller Patient Zero.

 

[Captaindemotion]

So that's twice a Doctor has bonked a Queen Elizabeth then?

 

[Starkers]

 

[Ithekro]

Well the Queen does love Doctor Who. Who know she married him?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

I might be the only one but when I saw the thread title I totally thought it was about a live-action version of Sleeping Beauty

 

[auntiehill]

Prince Philip? Er...OK.

 

[The Four Doctor]

an American playing Churchill? OK...

 

[sttngfan1701d]

an American playing Churchill? OK...

Why not? British and Irish actors have been playing famous Americans for years. Most recently Abraham Lincoln. Others spring to mind...Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin.

If the actor fits the part, cast him.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Not forgetting Christian Slater in Churchill: The Hollywood Years.

Maybe not such a great example.