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Paul Bettany: ‘I’m 50 years old now and still keeping these wounds fresh’
Some actors know they’re destined for great things, but Paul Bettany was never so sure. The actor insists that he has always lacked self-belief compared to, say, his late A Knight’s Tale co-star Heath Ledger, who possessed it in such joyful abundance. Yet Bettany says this with so much of that jammy English charm that it’s hard to truly believe him. “So much has been spoken about Heath’s darkness but I only saw this person who was so full of light and had this confidence in himself that was magnetic but never felt obnoxious,” he recalls, ruefully. “You just knew he was a star.” On the other hand, he says half-laughing, custard-coloured beanie on his head, “I’m still filled with absolute self-doubt all the time.”
Bettany didn’t actually set out to become an actor. Music had once been the goal. “But I hated singing my own songs in front of people. It felt very revealing and I didn’t like it.” He soon realise
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Though the events of Avengers: Endgame brought back a whole lot of folks, Paul Bettany’s Vision sadly didn’t survive the epic battles(s) with Thanos. But before he mysteriously returned in Disney+’s WandaVision, he almost came back a bit sooner in one of Marvel’s trademark post-credit scenes.
In an interview with IMDB, star Paul Bettany (who plays Vision) revealed he was originally supposed to show up after the credits in Endgame with a final tag scene that would help set-up the events of WandaVision. The MCU original series, the studio’s first on Disney+, is loaded with mysteries — with Vision and Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch living life in a bizarro sitcom bubble just brimming with dread. The first two episodes dropped last week, and the third episode hits Disney+ this Friday.
As for that missing Endgame post-credit scen that could’ve tied it all together? Bettany reveals it would’ve featured Scarlet Witch seeking out Vision's body in the morgue — which could’ve titta
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theartsdesk Q&A: Actor Paul Bettany
Now, having covered everything between gangster and archangel – including a naked Geoffrey Chaucer and an ageing tennis pro – Bettany has taken another turn, appearing in Sallie Aprahamian's unglamorous north-London chamber movie Broken Lines as Chester, a boxer attempting to recover from a career-ending stroke.
Award-nominated and officially selected, Broken Lines is a small-scale story of love and its obligations, tracking the burgeoning relationship between tailor's son Jake (Dan Fredenburgh) and waitress B (Doraly Rosa) and its impact on those around them. As the death of Jake's father pulls him away from his fiancée