Matt Smith Reunites With ‘Doctor Who’ Co-Stars While Celebrating 40th Birthday In Ecuador: Watch

Happy 40th day Matt Smith! The British histrion celebrated the nighttime earlier his existent day (October 28) with a radical of friends including his former Doctor Who co-stars Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill on the Galapagos Islands successful Ecuador. Matt’s friends gathered astir the House of the Dragon star and sang “He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,” arsenic Matt clapped on and admired his day cake. After blowing retired the candles, Matt told his friends, “This travel couldn’t get immoderate better. Thank you for your grace and hospitality, this is truly excessively kind.”

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Matt has been enjoying a travel to Ecuador with Karen, 34, and Arthur, 40. Karen posted Instagram footage of herself and Arthur enjoying the wildlife connected the Galapagos Islands earlier Matt’s day celebration. The Guardians of the Galaxy star captured videos of crabs, birds, and seals. She besides recorded Arthur wearing a lifejacket arsenic the brace enjoyed a vessel trip. “A mates of Ponds successful the Galapagos PART 1,” Karen captioned the post. 

Matt was the 11th Doctor successful the British sci-fi bid from 2010 to 2013. Karen and Arthur played his assistants, puerility sweethearts Amy Pond and Rory Williams. Matt was replaced by Peter Capaldi who became the 12th Doctor successful 2014. In a caller interrogation with the Los Angeles Times, Matt revealed that helium felt much unit being on Doctor Who than on House of the Dragon, the new Game of Thrones prequel series.

Matt Smith was the eleventh Doctor successful the ‘Doctor Who’ franchise (Photo: Adrian Rogers/BBC/Everett Collection)

“The unit that came with Doctor Who is extraordinary,” Matt explained. “On this, you’re sharing it with similar 10 different actors. Doctor Who is Doctor Who, Hamlet is Hamlet, you know? I was 26 [when I was cast] and I don’t cognize if I’ll ever consciousness unit similar that again. In Britain, anyway, the absorption connected that occupation is enormous.”

Matt besides said that “everyone who leaves ‘Doctor Who’ volition everlastingly miss ‘Doctor Who’ due to the fact that it doesn’t get immoderate better.” We’ll spot if that’s the lawsuit for Jodie Whittaker, who is exiting the franchise arsenic the 13th Doctor. David Tennent, who was the 10th Doctor, volition instrumentality arsenic the 14th Doctor for a 60th day special, earlier Ncuti Gatwa steps successful arsenic the 15th Doctor.