Matt Smith breaks down his dancing Morbius villain
Morbius sees a clash between Jared Leto's titular bloodsucker and Matt Smith's Milo, who loses all his inhibitions after undergoing the change from human to living vampire.
Both Morbius and Milo suffer from the same rare blood disease, which is slowly killing them both. They've known each other since childhood – in fact, Morbius is the one who gave Milo, real name Lucien, his nickname – and their bond seems unbreakable… until the vampirism hits.
"It's the heartbeat of [the film] in many ways," Smith tells GamesRadar+ of the brotherhood between Morbius and Milo. "It's about the bond between two best friends growing up, and they've both experienced this very difficult disease that they've had to live with their whole life, and they've lived it together. And in trying to find a cure, finding it and dealing with it, it sends them in opposite directions. That's what's nice about the film. It is about actually a smaller, domestic group of five or six characters, it's a much more contained type of big Marvel film."
After curing himself of his illness, but afflicting himself with vampirism, Morbius refuses to hand the cure over to his friend to stop Milo becoming a monster – but Milo takes it anyway. While Morbius struggles with retaining his humanity, Milo throws himself into bloodthirsty carnage with glee. His larger than life energy even extends to dancing after snacking on some people in the subway confrontation with Morbius, and again in front of a mirror later in the movie.
"None of it was in the script, actually. Not the stuff in the subway," Smith says of the dancing. "And then afterwards, the dancing scene, that was a good idea from Daniel [Espinosa], the director, late on into the shoot. But it wasn't choreographed,
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