Matt Smith: 'There's no room for me on Sherlock!'

Matt Smith has shot down rumours he is to appear in Sherlock.

Steven Moffat, who is executive producer of both Sherlock and Doctor Who, sparked rumours the former Time Lord may make a cameo in the hit detective show earlier this year.

But Matt told a panel of fans at the Wizard World Con he would not be sharing a screen with Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.

According to the Daily Mirror, he said: "Listen, there's no room for me on Sherlock! They've got Benedict and Martin, that's quite enough peculiar Englishmen for that show. There's no room for another."

Write and producer Steve told Zap2It.com in January he wasn't against the idea of casting Matt in a guest role in Sherlock, if the character was right.

He said: "If there was a perfect part for Smith, there's no rule against it.

"We wouldn't want it to be stunt casting, because stunt casting doesn't work, so it would have to be just because he was overwhelming right for it."

 

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Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.