It’s apparently a good day for inexplicably sexualized British Muppet men to almost, but not quite, pay tribute to the works of Jane Austen. First there was Benedict Cumberbatch doing his best, wettest Mr. Darcy impression for charity, and now there’s the news that former Doctor Who star Matt Smith has signed on for a role in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies, which continues to shamble toward production despite all efforts to put it down. Smith will be taking on the role of Mr. Collins in the Burr Steers-directed adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s “expanded”—in the sense that a corpse expands, due to the laws of decay and decomposition—version of Austen’s classic novel. Collins is a classically stuffy, obsequious clergymen who seeks one of the Bennett daughters’ hands in marriage, a metaphor which will probably get all gross and literal.