{"id":58341,"date":"2025-08-11T03:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58341\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T03:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T03:55:11","slug":"former-dr-who-star-matt-smith-cast-in-new-star-wars-film-alongside-ryan-gosling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/58341\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dr Who star Matt Smith cast in new Star Wars film alongside Ryan Gosling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"publish_date\">10 August 2025, 19:59 | Updated: 10 August 2025, 22:56<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"New York, United States. 03rd June, 2024. Matt Smith is attending HBO's ''House Of The Dragon'' Season 2 Premiere at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, New York, USA, on June 03, 2024. (Photo by Thenews2\/NurPhoto) Credit: NurPhoto SRL\/Alamy Live News\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"746354\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/746354\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Former Doctor Who lead and House of the Dragon star Matt Smith has landed a role in a new Star Wars film as a villain.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-new-york-608638532.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dialog\/share?href=www.lbc.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fentertainment%2Fmatt-smith-star-wars-ryan-gosling-dr-who%2F&amp;app_id=145393762194646\" target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"gusto.tracking.social(&#039;facebook&#039;, &#039;share&#039;)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook share\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/facebook-share.png\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Former Doctor Who and House of the Dragon star Matt Smith has landed a role in a new Star Wars film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The LucasFilm project titled Star Wars: Starfighter is slated for release in 2027, and will see the 42-year-old link up with A-lister Ryan Gosling. Smith will play a villain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The film is set to be directed by Shawn Levy and will also feature rising star Mia Goth, 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/uk\/arthurs-seat-fire-landmark-edinburgh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Huge wildfire breaks out on iconic Edinburgh landmark Arthur&#8217;s Seat<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/world-news\/ukraine-russia-land-us-trump-putin-zelenskyy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine vows to hold on to its land as UK to host summit of US and European officials ahead of Trump-Putin talks<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Smith is a stalwart of fantasy franchises, having starred in works within the Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, and Marvel franchises.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The cast of Doctor Who film the 50th anniversary special in Trafalgar Square  Featuring: Matt Smith Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Apr 2013\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"746355\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/746355\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>    Smith is a stalwart of fantasy franchises, having starred in works within the Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, and Marvel franchises in his career so far.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-the-cast-o-70677741.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\nAlamy<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">After bursting onto the scene as the wacky 11th Doctor in the long-running TV series back in 2010, Smith has become a household name in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">This success saw him secure the role portraying the Duke of Edinburgh in the first two seasons of Netflix&#8217;s popular series The Crown, which followed the early years of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s reign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He then took his star internationally when he was cast as Daemon Targaryen in HBO&#8217;s House of the Dragon in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">Smith then moved his career from the small screen to the big screen when he played Lucien\/Milo in the 2022 Marvel flop Morbius.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/lbc-app\/download-new-lbc-app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Download the new LBC app now\" class=\"content-image\" data-image-catalogue-id=\"744691\" width=\"660\" height=\"370\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/744691\"  \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    Download the new LBC app now.<\/p>\n<p>        Picture:<br \/>\nLBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"10 August 2025, 19:59 | Updated: 10 August 2025, 22:56 Former Doctor Who lead and House of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-58341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341","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=58341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}