{"id":13291,"date":"2014-06-25T01:25:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2014-06-25T01:25:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:25:53","slug":"matt-smith-expresses-interest-in-portraying-the-riddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=13291","title":{"rendered":"Matt Smith Expresses Interest in Portraying The Riddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mattsmith_riddler.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13404\" src=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/mattsmith_riddler-300x187.png\" alt=\"mattsmith_riddler\" width=\"403\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right on the heels of an interview with Karen Gillan, in which she stated that she would want to <a title=\"Karen Gillan Wants To Play SPIDER-GIRL On Film\" href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/2014\/06\/karen-gillan-wants-to-play-spider-girl-on-film\/\">play Spider-Girl<\/a>, another interview brings to light her co-actor&#8217;s answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p>In a Comic Con panel in Philadelphia, Gillan&#8217;s fellow\u00a0<em>Doctor Who<\/em> actor, and star of the show, Matt Smith, was asked which superhero he would want to portray in the future.<\/p>\n<p>After giving the matter a moment of consideration, he replied &#8220;Oh, I know. Yeah, Batman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Someone then asked him to demonstrate his &#8216;Batman voice&#8217; and Smith replied, &#8220;Oh, no, listen because I don\u2019t know what it is. Bale went with the gruffy thing. Mine could be (in a high pitch voice), \u2018Hey, I\u2019m Batman.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then Smith suggested he could play the Joker, possibly after remembering that Ben Affleck had been cast for the role of Batman.\u00a0The moderator then suggested that Smith could play the Riddler in one of the Affleck Batman movies, assuming there are any. Smith was intrigued by the idea, and said, &#8220;Hey, I\u2019m going to write to Warner Bros. and say that you mentioned it. And you never know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While we may indeed never know, the actor certainly fits Edward Nigma&#8217;s lanky profile, and Smith has certainly developed the acting chops for it. Hopefully Matt Smith follows through on his promise to bring this to Warner Bros. attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nRight on the heels of an interview with Karen Gillan, in which she stated that she would want to play&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=13291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Matt Smith Expresses Interest in Portraying The Riddler&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":13404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[97,371,457,580],"class_list":["post-13291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","tag-batman","tag-interview","tag-matt-smith","tag-riddler","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Matt Smith Expresses Interest in Portraying The Riddler - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=13291\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matt Smith Expresses Interest in Portraying The Riddler - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Right on the heels of an interview with Karen Gillan, in which she stated that she would want to play&hellip; 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