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"Reece Shearsmith has spoken to Digital Spy about his role in the Doctor Who 50th anniversary biopic. The A Field In England star will play Patrick Troughton - the second Doctor - in An Adventure in Space and Time, penned by Mark Gatiss.  &amp;quot;I was honoured to be part of it,&amp;quot; Shearsmith told DS. &amp;quot;Mark&amp;#039;s... had that idea for a long time and he&amp;#039;s finally got to do it this year. It&amp;#039;s the perfect time for it to happen, with it being the 50th anniversary in November. &amp;quot;I think he just always had this idea that I would [play Troughton]. It&amp;#039;s very small - I&amp;#039;m literally only in a very small little bit, but it was lovely to be part of it.&amp;quot; Shearsmith also described David Bradley&amp;#039;s performance as first Doctor actor William Hartnell as &amp;quot;absolutely brilliant&amp;quot; and called Adventure &amp;quot;a lovingly rendered thing&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Mark was in his absolute element, wandering around the TARDIS\u2026 the attention to detail was immaculate,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s done a really good rendering of that time and that story. I think it&amp;#039;s a real treat.&amp;quot;  The 43-year-old added that he would &amp;quot;love&amp;quot; to follow up his Troughton role with an appearance on Doctor Who itself, but ruled himself out as a potential replacement for departing lead Matt Smith. &amp;quot;Oh God, no! I&amp;#039;ve literally not even thought about it,&amp;quot; he said.&amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve had a few people tweeting me that, saying, &amp;#039;You should be the Doctor&amp;#039;\u2026 I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;#039;What??&amp;#039; &amp;quot;It could be literally anyone. I can&amp;#039;t imagine who we&amp;#039;re gonna get. But it would be good to go older, I think, because they&amp;#039;ve done two younger ones.&amp;quot; An Adventure in Space and Time will air on BBC Two later this year. Reece Shearsmith&amp;#039;s new film A Field in England will be the first ever UK film released simultaneously in cinemas, on DVD, on Film4 and on VoD on Friday July 5. www.afieldinengland.com &amp;gt; Reece Shearsmith on A Field in England: &amp;quot;It becomes very strange&amp;quot; Watch Digital Spy&amp;#039;s Geek TV special on Matt Smith&amp;#039;s exit and the 12th Doctor below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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