Matt Smith: It’s always good fun to play a baddie

British actor Matt Smith may have made the role of “House of the Dragon” bida-kontrabida Prince Daemon Targaryen distinctly his own, but those who have been following his stellar career know only too well there’s hardly any tough nut he’s incapable of cracking as far as essaying difficult roles are concerned.

After all, the 39-year-old Emmy- and Bafta-nominated actor is just as acclaimed for his portrayals of the blood-sucking vampire Milo (in “Morbius”), Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip (“The Crown”), the impressionable protagonist’s boyfriend-turned-manager-turned-abuser (“Last Night in Soho”), risqu photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and, of course, the 11th incarnation…

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