When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/i><\/p>\n Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing<\/p>\n Matt Smith sports quite the extreme look in the new dark comedy thriller Caught Stealing. On an opposite end of the spectrum from his besuited performance as The Doctor, his character Russ in the movie is personally doing his part to keep punk alive \u2013 regularly appearing in a studded leather jacket and rocking a flame colored mohawk<\/a>. The latter is definitely the best part of the whole aesthetic, but as we recently learned from the actor, committing to it required a little extra push from director Darren Aronofsky<\/a>.<\/p>\n As captured in the video above, CinemaBlend’s Hannah Saulic sat down with Matt Smith and Regina King during the recent Los Angeles press day for Caught Stealing, and it was during a discussion about the mohawk that Smith admitted having some doubts about cutting his hair. It evidently took a bit of extra convincing from the director of The Whale for him to work up the courage and trim his locks. He explained,<\/p>\n My hair when I did this was quite long, and I was quite nervous about cutting [it] off actually. Darren [Aronofsky] had to really push me forward. I had a wonderful hair designer called Jon Carter, who sort of constructed this piece to go in the middle of my hair, goes round the outside, and it’s a sort of amalgamation of two things. Hats off to Jon and his creative energies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n More about that mohawk…<\/p>\n Austin Butler in Darron Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing.<\/p>\n Matt Smith Was Asked If His Caught Stealing Mohawk Or Daemon Targaryen\u2019s Hair Was Harder To Maintain, And His Answer Surprised Me<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If you’ve seen footage from Caught Stealing, you know that the mohawk is a work of art. The coloration is rad, and it’s a perfect choice to automatically tell the audience what the character is all about.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/div>\n
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