{"id":34351,"date":"2025-07-30T21:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34351\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:31:10","slug":"matt-smith-is-quite-a-sensitive-punk-in-caught-stealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34351\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Smith Is \u2018Quite A Sensitive Punk\u2019 In Caught Stealing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his post-Doctor Who years, Matt Smith has been unafraid to take on a vast array of roles, from Patrick Bateman on stage, to bloodthirsty Targaryen princes<\/a> \u2013 but his look in Caught Stealing<\/a> might be his most dramatic transformation. The actor is teaming up with Darren Aronofsky for his new crime thriller, in which Austin Butler\u2019s Hank gets pulled into the criminal underbelly of \u201890s New York \u2013 coming into contact with Smith\u2019s Russ, a full-on, mohawked punk. It\u2019s a wild change of look for Smith, who shaved his own hair to pull off Russ\u2019s sky-scraping \u2018do.<\/p>\n

But if Russ looks like a formidable figure, there\u2019s a sweet soul under that hardened exterior. Exploring the character, Smith took on some literary inspiration. \u201cI [reckoned that Russ had] moved to New York and learned all of these John Cooper Clarke poems because he\u2019s a punk, but he\u2019s quite a sensitive punk,\u201d he tells Empire. While preparing the role, Smith sent several Cooper Clarke poems to Aronofsky, including one bluntly titled \u2018Twat\u2019.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not just poetry \u2013 Russ\u2019 music taste also extends beyond the usual punk bible bands like Black Flag and The Clash. \u201cI used to say that Russ is a fucking mad punk; he goes home and listens to classic punk tunes and loses his mind,\u201d says Smith, \u201cbut there\u2019s also a day where he goes home and puts on Whitney Houston. He\u2019s one of those guys who\u2019s a bit of everything.\u201d Hey, sometimes you just wanna dance with somebody.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire\u2019s full Matt Smith interview \u2013 about getting into character as Russ in Caught Stealing \u2013 in the Avatar: Fire And Ash issue<\/a>, on sale Thursday 31 July. Order a copy online here<\/a>. Caught Stealing comes to UK cinemas from 29 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In his post-Doctor Who years, Matt Smith has been unafraid to take on a vast array of roles,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-34351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}