Mapping Matt
Billie Piper in Penny Dreadful.
◼ Matt Smith will star as controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in a biopic about his relationship with Patti Smith and how he stunned the art world before his premature death aged 42. Filming commences in the summer. Matt presented at the BAFTA Film Awards on 14 February having been reunited at Harvey Weinstein’s pre-BAFTA party in Mayfair two days earlier with Jenna Coleman, who lately recorded her wedding scene for ITV’s Victoria in Beverley Minster. Noel Clarke was also at the awards participating in the Sidney Poitier tribute, while a first Brotherhood trailer, the third and final film of his ‘hood’ trilogy, can be seen at tinyurl.com/HoodTrailer