Matt Smith Reunites With ‘Physician Who’ Stars For fortieth Birthday: Video – Hollywood Life

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Pleased fortieth birthday Matt Smith! The British actor celebrated the evening earlier than his precise birthday (October 28) with a gaggle of pals together with his former Physician Who co-stars Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill on the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador. Matt’s pals gathered across the Home of the Dragon star and sang “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,” as Matt clapped alongside and admired his birthday cake. After blowing out the candles, Matt informed his pals, “This journey couldn’t get any higher. Thanks on your grace and hospitality, that is actually too type.”

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Matt has been having fun with a visit to Ecuador with Karen, 34, and Arthur, 40. Karen posted Instagram footage of herself and Arthur having fun with the wildlife on the Galapagos Islands earlier than Matt’s birthday celebration. The Guardians of the Galaxy star captured movies of crabs, birds, and seals. She additionally recorded Arthur carrying a lifejacket because the pair loved a ship journey. “A few Ponds within the Galapagos PART 1,” Karen captioned the publish. 

Matt was the eleventh Physician within the British sci-fi collection from 2010 to 2013. Karen and Arthur performed his assistants, childhood sweethearts Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Matt was changed by Peter Capaldi who grew to become the twelfth Physician in 2014. In a current interview with the Los Angeles Occasions, Matt revealed that he felt extra stress being on Physician Who than on Home of the Dragon, the brand new Recreation of Thrones prequel collection.

“The stress that got here with Physician Who’s extraordinary,” Matt defined. “On this, you’re sharing it with like 10 different actors. Physician Who’s Physician Who, Hamlet is Hamlet, you realize? I used to be 26 [when I was cast] and I don’t know if I’ll ever really feel stress like that once more. In Britain, anyway, the give attention to that job is gigantic.”

Matt additionally mentioned that “everybody who leaves ‘Physician Who’ will perpetually miss ‘Physician Who’ as a result of it doesn’t get any higher.” We’ll see if that’s the case for Jodie Whittaker, who’s exiting the franchise because the thirteenth Physician. David Tennent, who was the tenth Physician, will return because the 14th Physician for a sixtieth anniversary particular, earlier than Ncuti Gatwa steps in because the fifteenth Physician.