Last Night in Soho’s Matt Smith talks ’60s suits and Game of Thrones dragons – CNET [CNET]

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Sixties legends Diana Rigg and Terence Stamp also appear in the film. Did you get a sense of like how they felt looking back at those times?
I spent an afternoon with Terence, which was just fascinating. We talked about many things, but never really about London. I knew Diana, I did a Doctor Who episode with her so we were firm friends actually. Any time spent in her company was always quite thrilling. She was such… she was a hoot. And she was very, very generous with her time and she’s full of wonderful anecdotes about the industry and different people. She’s totally missed.

Can you share any of those anecdotes?
Not off the top of my head! But I was about to work at the Young Vic [theater] and I was a bit nervous about the size of the space, and she was just like, ‘Oh, darling, it’s your friend.’ She’d obviously had a really wonderful career and they were total icons in that period really, weren’t they?

What is it about the 1960s that has such a grip on us still?
It was a very fashionable period, which is quite appealing to look at. It’s quite easy on the eye. And Britain was in a process of change, the Beatles were around and they changed the face of modern music in many respects, there was a lot of culture happening and people were stepping outside of themselves coming out of the ’50s which was a slightly more staid time. There’s a color and vibrancy to it which looks pretty great.

You wear a lot of great suits in this film….
Yeah, I was a real fan of that. Odile [Dicks-Mireaux, costume designer] did such a wonderful job with the costumes. She really designed them beautifully. Those big boxy gangster three-piece suits and tie pins and the quiff hair, it was right up my Strasse.

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