For Matt Smith, playing Prince Philip in 'The Crown' has deepened his fascination with the royal family
LOS ANGELES - When Matt Smith heard there was a television series in the works that was devoted to poring over the British royal family, two words came to mind: "Who cares?"
For so long, at least for this English actor, they were just that stuffy family that lived in those opulent "old houses" that he'd visited on school trips as a young boy or whizzed past in his car as an adult.
"'We know what happens, we know the story, we've seen the movies,'" Smith recalls thinking - dusting off his initial eye roll - during a recent trip to Los Angeles. But like a good chap, he read all 10 first season scripts of "The Crown," crafted by Peter Morgan, best known for writing the historical films and plays "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon."
"It turns out, well, actually I care about the royal family," he
