Matt Smith and Karen Gillan as The Doctor and Amy Pond standing in the tardis in Doctor Who
The Big Picture Doctor Who's Eleventh Doctor could’ve looked very different. In a recent interview with Variety, Matt Smith says he almost turned down the role of the Eleventh Doctor in the longstanding British Sci-Fi series. He says he thought about it "briefly. But my agent, very quickly, was like, ‘You’re doing it.’ Thank God." Smith would go on to portray the Eleventh Doctor from 2010 to 2014.
The Doctor should never travel alone, and it was only a short time later that Karen Gillan was announced as the Eleventh Doctor’s first companion, Amy Pond. Gillan would play her from 2010 to 2012, reprising her role in Smith's final episode of Doctor Who "The Time of the Doctor." At the beginning of their time together on Doctor Who, Gillan says Smith "definitely was feeling pressure, but it never showed in any way.
Smith says he didn't expect House of the Dragon to match the success of Game of Thrones. He credits his time in Doctor Who to helping him deal with it, saying “in a way, I was lucky, because I had that in Doctor Who a bit. But it feels like people judge it on its own terms. You’re never going to create the moment in time that Game of Thrones was — the love and affection and scale of that show. It’s never going to be that, because it was a moment in time.
“To me, he is the best actor that’s ever played the Doctor, because he has an otherworldly quality. He’s naturally eccentric, and he reels off technical jargon like it’s a shopping list.”
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