{"id":670390,"date":"2026-07-02T19:53:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670390\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:53:20","slug":"matt-smith-hilariously-slams-his-own-infamous-marvel-flop-morbius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/670390\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt Smith hilariously slams his own infamous Marvel flop Morbius"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Smith has hilariously slammed his flop movie Morbius. The Marvel<\/a> flick became an infamous failure when it was released in 2022, making just over $167.4 million, and was also roundly slated by critics, attracting only 15% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The House of the Dragon star plays villain Lucien\/Milo Morbius in the film opposite Jared Leto’s titular vampire, and has poked fun at the movie while appearing on Brittany Broski’s Royal Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the host brought up an anecdote about Keanu Reeves being caught watching Morbius on a flight, Smith exclaimed: “F**k off! You are joking.<\/p>\n

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“I love Keanu Reeves\u2026 what a movie star! He just looks like an angel. If you were to get a guardian angel in life, please god let it be Keanu Reeves.”<\/p>\n

Bringing it back to Reeves’s Morbius watch, Broski then questioned what Smith watches on flights, the star quipping: “Not f**king Morbius, Jesus Christ! My god, he really must’ve gone through the BA library to be getting to that.”<\/p>\n

When Broski suggested the Matrix star may have been drunk, Smith proposed that he could have been “having a moment”.<\/p>\n

“He’s on the valium or something,” he joked. “God. No but what a legend, I love Keanu Reeves, I just want to make that really clear.”<\/p>\n

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This isn’t the first time that Smith has responded to Morbius’ flop status<\/a>, suggesting around the time of its release that “it was thrown under the bus”.<\/p>\n

“But you just have to roll with it. What else are you gonna do?” he told Rolling Stone<\/a>. “It’s a film, at the end of the day. We’re not saving lives. For whatever reason, it didn’t quite work out and\u2026 It is what it is.”<\/p>\n

Smith can currently be seen reprising his role of Daemon Targaryen in the latest season of House of the Dragon, which is airing at the moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies<\/a>, TV<\/a> and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME<\/a> and Screen International<\/a>. \u00a0Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings<\/a> to Love Is Blind<\/a>, and is equally in his element crossing every ‘t’ and dotting every ‘i’ as a sub-editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Smith has hilariously slammed his flop movie Morbius. The Marvel flick became an infamous failure when it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[157185,147950,155084,224423,379,224422,381,96,190731,1156,2839,224421,223205,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-670390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-collection-house-of-the-dragon","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-marvel","tag-collection-morbius","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-f27b572b-c7c2-4933-81f6-b5d1cd867d18","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-gb","tag-movies","tag-shorttitle-matt-smith-hilariously-slams-his-own-infamous-flop-morbius","tag-sponsored-false","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670390","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=670390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}