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Matt Smith visits WIRED to offer up answers to his most searched for questions on Google. Can Matt Smith sing? Is Matt Smith the next James Bond? Why is Matt Smith the best Doctor Who? Answers to these questions and more await on the WIRED Autocomplete Interview of Matt Smith.

Director: Adam Lance Garcia
Director of Photography: Jack Belisle
Editor: Samantha DiVito
Talent: Matt Smith
Creative Producer: Justin Wolfson
Line Producer: Jamie Rasmussen
Associate Producer: Brandon White
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production Coordinator: Rhyan Lark
Talent Booker: Meredith Judkins Lee
Camera Operator: Carlos Araujo
Gaffer: David Djaco
Grip: Mar Alfonso
Sound Mixer: Tyson Dai
Production Assistant: Ziyne Abdo
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds

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00:00I'm Matt Smith, and this is The Wired Autocomplete Interview. Check it out.
00:08These are actual real things. It makes it far more interesting, actually.
00:14Can Matt Smith? Here we go. Can Matt Smith sing? It depends on your attitude. How do you quantify
00:22a good singer? Have I sung? Yes. I was in a musical, American Psycho, the musical,
00:27which is coming back, actually. So technically, yes. Am I good? Debatable, but I like it.
00:35Can Matt Smith grow a beard? No. Can Matt Smith ride a motorcycle? No, but I used to ride a chicken
00:41when I was a kid. What we call a chicken was like a little moped, and I've ridden mopeds around Italy
00:46and stuff, but I can't ride with gears and stuff. Can... What? That's a weird one. Can Matt Smith
00:52grow a beard? Why? Because I'm clean shaven a lot. Can Matt Smith play football? Yes, I can.
00:58Center off. Can Matt Smith ride a horse? Yes, I can. And I have been doing, dare I say. Yeah.
01:09Okay. Why Matt Smith is the best Doctor Who? Well, that's a matter of opinion,
01:16of course, isn't it? And were I to be considered the best, why? I don't know. I had a great writer,
01:21and Amy Pond and Rory, I think, two of the greatest companions. And yeah, Stephen Moffat was amazing.
01:26Who do you think is the best Doctor? I don't know. You can't ask me that. That's like asking,
01:33you know, Pierce Brosnan who you think is the best James Bond is. I mean, look,
01:36we're all the same person, aren't we? So it's a collective effort. It's a team effort.
01:42Why was Matt Smith regeneration so fast? Well, you'll have to blame Stephen Moffat for that. I
01:47know. It should have been quicker. Or no, it should have been quicker. It should have been longer.
01:50God, Stephen, for God's sake, why don't you give me a longer generation? I mean, I don't know.
01:57But there was a whole, like, before it had a big speech about, you know, the Doctor being me and my
02:02bowtie and stuff. I felt like it was, I felt he did me right on that, Stephen. Who was Matt Smith's
02:07companion? Come on. You must know that. How do you not know that? Amy Pond. Rory Pond.
02:14And Clara Oswald, the great Clara Oswald. How did Matt Smith become the Doctor? Well,
02:20I had two secret auditions and they were in hotels and I had to check in under, like,
02:24a false name. And then I got cast and I couldn't tell anyone for, like, six months. It was really
02:29weird. But it was a great time. I'm really proud of that show. I love Doctor Who. I love Doctor Who.
02:34And it's long may it continue. So, when was Matt Smith on Top Gear? Oh God, I can't even remember.
02:43But I did quite well in it. I came, like, fourth or fifth. And it was a while ago. I was young.
02:48Is Matt Smith in The Crown? Well, I was. I played Prince Philip, who's a fucking legend,
02:53by the way. Matt Smith, fan mail address, www.idontknow.com. Where does Matt Smith live?
03:03Never you mind. And Matt Smith, MCU. Yeah, technically, it is a Marvel film, Morbius, I think.
03:13But it was made by Sony. Who knows? But I was in, yeah, a sort of superhero vampire film,
03:20to varying degrees of success, you might argue. Here we go. Matt Smith, James Bond. No. Matt Smith,
03:29Austin Butler. Couple of legends. Love Austin Butler. What a fucking dude. Matt Smith,
03:34Damon Targaryen. Has to be, unless I play another Damon. Matt Smith, Doctor Who Return. Wow. You never
03:41know. Does Matt Smith have tattoos? No, he doesn't. Where did Matt Smith train? Train for what? Being an actor?
03:49Nowhere. Is Matt Smith nice? Yes. Fucking right, I'm nice. Was Matt Smith in Terminator Genisys? Yes,
03:58I was. Although, I don't know how memorable I was, but I was certainly in it. Where did Matt Smith
04:03grow up? Northampton, in England. Yeah, it's in the middle of the country, and I still go back loads.
04:08Loads of my best friends are from there. Gotta keep it real, man. See you later. Okay, what was Matt Smith's
04:13first role? Depends. Are we talking first professional role? It was in a play called Fresh
04:19Kills at the Royal Court in London, in England, and I played a male gigolo in New York with one
04:26Phil Daniels, and it had a brilliant Texan director called Wilson Malim. So it was very American, actually.
04:33What does Matt Smith do for fun? Drink Guinness and watch football. What was Matt Smith's role in the
04:39Rise of Skywalker? Who knows? Was I in the Rise of Skywalker? What is the Rise of Skywalker? What
04:46football team does Matt Smith support? Blackburn Rovers, because they are the one, the only,
04:51the greatest. Come on. What is Matt Smith working on? Right now I'm doing a show called House of the
04:55Dragon, and I play a guy called Damon Targaryen, and he's got blonde hair. There's some funny ones in there.
05:01Can Matt Smith grow a beard? Why would Google know? I mean,
05:04what the fuck does Google say to that? Thank you, Wired. That was fun.
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