Do you remember Matt Smith’s final episode of Doctor Who, when he took off a wig and revealed that he was bald? That was because the actor shaved his head to play the villain in Lost River, the directorial debut of Drive star Ryan Gosling. He plays a psychopathic killer who likes to cut the lips off of his enemies, and he’s scary as hell. You can take a good long look at Matt Smith as “Bully” in this exclusive clip from Lost River, right now, right here at CraveOnline. What do you think?
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Lost River is a dark fairy tale about love, family and the fight for survival in the face of danger. In the virtually abandoned city of Lost River, Billy, a single mother of two, is led into a macabre underworld in her quest to save her childhood home and hold her family together. Her teenage son Bones discovers a mystery about the origins of Lost River that triggers his curiosity and sets into motion an unexpected journey that will test his limits and the limits of those he loves.
Lost River, directed by Ryan Gosling and starring Iain de Caestecker (Agents of SHIELD), Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Matt Smith (Doctor Who), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel) and Eva Mendes (The Place Beyond the Pines) arrives in theaters and On Demand on April 10, 2015.
William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Blue Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.
