The Radio Times have revealed that Reece Shearsmith is to play the actor Patrick Troughton in the 50th Anniversary drama An Adventure in Space and Time. Shearsmith - one of the collaborators behind The League of Gentlemen - is a good friend of writer and executive producer Mark Gatiss, who told Patrick Mulkern at the BFI screening of Troughton adventure The Tomb of the Cybermen:
"I first asked Reece about 12 years ago when I started thinking about the project. We were in the midst of League of Gentlemen and I just remember thinking, if anyone plays Patrick Troughton, it should be Reece. Like the second Doctor, he's small, saturnine and a comic genius. The complete package. He thought it was a fantastic idea and I've kind of nurtured it all this time."
The actor told his Twitter followers this morning: "Very happy to confirm I am the 2nd Doctor. Very excited to be part of it."
Other cast members confirmed by the article include Jeff Rawle (previously Plantagenet in Frontios and Mr Harding in Mona Lisa's Revenge) playing associate producer and director Mervyn Pinfield, Andrew Woodall as producer and director Rex Tucker, and Gatiss' partner Ian Hallard as origional Dalek director Richard Martin.
Taken from: www.doctorwhonews.net
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