Before being cast as the Doctor, he auditioned for the part of John Watson on Sherlock (2010)' but was rejected for being too eccentric. Steven Moffat claimed that Smith would have been a good Sherlock if Benedict Cumberbatch had not been cast ...
I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.
Eccentric personality
Smithers
Matthew Robert Smith
Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK