{"id":16817,"date":"2011-06-26T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2011-06-23T02:08:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:08:34","slug":"the-sunday-punch-matt-smith-is-batman-now-vengeance-is-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/the-sunday-punch-matt-smith-is-batman-now-vengeance-is-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Punch: Matt Smith is Batman Now. Vengeance is cool."},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/06\/doctor-who-star-matt-smit.php\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MattSmithbatman_1924878c-thumb-460x287-64924.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Doctor Batman. We&#039;d watch the hell out of that.\" width=\"460\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MattSmithbatman_1924878c-thumb-460x287-64924.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/MattSmithbatman_1924878c-thumb-460x287-64924-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, as Batman?! Do go on&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> the<a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/06\/doctor-who-star-matt-smit.php\" class=\"external external_icon\"> British actor was playing a comedic Batman <\/a>over the weekend for an event called <a href=\"http:\/\/shine.yahoo.com\/channel\/life\/the-24-hour-plays-come-to-los-angeles-2499057\" class=\"external external_icon\">24 Hour Plays<\/a> (the plays are written the night before by various playwrights, then the actors have only a day of rehearsals before going live on stage) in Santa Monica, Calif.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Mr Smith is stretching his legs and giving it the Hollywood try, eh? Good on ya, mate. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the plays in the event are written the night before by various playwrights.<\/p>\n<p>The actors then spend just one day rehearsing before performing it.<\/p>\n<p>At the start of his play \u00e2\u20ac\u201c called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/8585843\/Doctor-Who-star-Matt-Smith-plays-Batman-as-he-tries-to-crack-Hollywood.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Gotham Autopsy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Smith was covered in a sheet in a mortuary before he came to life as a confused Batman.<\/a> Comedian and Don&#8217;t Mess With Zohan star Nick Swardson starred as Robin. Also in his play was Kick Ass star Lyndsy Fonseca and fellow Brit Saffron Burrows. Half-way through the 20 minute skit Smith dropped his fake American accent and became a cockney to huge laughs from the audience.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This 24 Hour Plays thing sounds like a neat theater event somewhat unique to the LA scene. Where else would you see The Doctor as Batman,  Eva Mendes dressed as a pumpkin or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2005615\/Holy-Batman-Matt-Smith-wows-audience-Hollywood-play-tries-make-U-S-Daisy-Lowe-side.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">movie Fantastic Four&#8217;s Reed Richards(aka Ioan Gruffudd) on stage in a yellow polka dot bikini <\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>No, really. That happened.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2011\/06\/doctor-who-star-matt-smit.php\" class=\"external external_icon\">Blastr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/8585843\/Doctor-Who-star-Matt-Smith-plays-Batman-as-he-tries-to-crack-Hollywood.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Telegraph<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-2005615\/Holy-Batman-Matt-Smith-wows-audience-Hollywood-play-tries-make-U-S-Daisy-Lowe-side.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">Daily Mail<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 11th Doctor, Matt Smith, as Batman?! Do go on&#8230; the British actor was playing a comedic Batman over the weekend for an event called 24 Hour Plays (the plays are written the night before by various playwrights, then the actors have only a day of rehearsals before going live on stage) in Santa Monica, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,691,14],"tags":[2221,4409,242,1368,719,4408,4410,2168,3723,2702,4406,4407],"class_list":["post-16817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-freaking-neat","category-lol-intertube-madness","category-usa","tag-11th-doctor","tag-24-hour-plays","tag-batman","tag-celebrity-sighting","tag-doctor-who","tag-gotham-autopsy","tag-hello-hollywood","tag-matt-smith","tag-moment-of-who","tag-sunday-punch","tag-the-plays-the-thing","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16821,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16817\/revisions\/16821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}