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"Reece Shearsmith has said that he would like a part in Doctor Who, but wouldn&amp;#039;t want people to think he got the role because of his friend&amp;#039;s involvement in the programme. Shearsmith was part of The League of Gentlemen alongside Mark Gatiss, who has written and starred in the show.  Gatiss also co-created the BBC&amp;#039;s Sherlock alongside current Who showrunner Steven Moffat. Speaking to Digital Spy and other journalists about his role as Malcolm Webster in ITV&amp;#039;s factual drama The Widower (&amp;quot;My job as the actor playing him was not to make it a cold serial killer man. To make it a real person in the world&amp;quot;), Shearsmith was asked when he would pop up in the BBC&amp;#039;s hit sci-fi. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. It&amp;#039;s a good question, isn&amp;#039;t it? You might have to put it out there!&amp;quot; Shearsmith replied. &amp;quot;Oh god, I don&amp;#039;t know. To be honest, it might not be the right thing to say, but I don&amp;#039;t watch it. I&amp;#039;ve not watched it for a long time. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve not watched it since about Colin Baker. So I don&amp;#039;t know the ins and outs of what goes on in that world.&amp;quot;  He added: &amp;quot;Of course I think it would be great to be part of it, I&amp;#039;m just waiting for someone to think of it. &amp;quot;Steve&amp;#039;s been in it, Steve Pemberton, and Mark&amp;#039;s obviously part and parcel of it. Yeah, I&amp;#039;d love to be a baddie in it, or I don&amp;#039;t know. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;d be the right part. I wouldn&amp;#039;t want to do it if it felt like oh you&amp;#039;re just in it because your friend writes it. That would be the worst thing to be levelled at me.&amp;quot;      As well as his League of Gentleman links to Doctor Who, Shearsmith featured in psychedelic civil war drama A Field In England from Ben Wheatley, who will direct the opening two episodes of Peter Capaldi&amp;#039;s debut series. He has also been cast alongside Who alumni Alex Kingston and Noel Clarke in upcoming ITV crime drama Chasing Shadows. Of his cameo appearance in Gatiss&amp;#039;s recent Doctor Who docudrama as Patrick Troughton, Shearsmith said: &amp;quot;It was nice to be part of An Adventure in Space and Time. &amp;quot;He always said, &amp;#039;If I ever get that thing made...&amp;#039; because he had it written for a long time... &amp;#039;I want you to do that little bit as Troughton&amp;#039;.      &amp;quot;It was nice to be on the set of the original console, see David Bradley dressed up... see the Daleks and everything.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;I thought some fans would love this experience. I was aware of what it meant. It was very special to be on that set. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know if I captured it. I tried to capture one line - just that awkwardness of him waiting in the wings to take over when everyone was sick of Hartnell. &amp;quot;It was a moment of levity, really. It was a wonderful thing to be part of.&amp;quot; The Widower begins on ITV on Monday, March 17 at 9pm. Watch the trailer below      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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