Paul Bettany Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ

The 'Solo' star runs through his most iconic roles, remembering Heath Ledger and the time he accidentally made Tom Hanks fart on set along the way.


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Paul Bettany Breaks Down His Most Iconic Characters | GQ

[stahppls]

Paul Bettany 's career was kickstarted by a director's man crush

[jbearclowater]

Man, Paul Bettany is such an underappreciated actor. I cannot think of anything he wasn't amazing in, and he's the total scene stealer every time for me.

[JayGigantic]

"It's hard to be that relentlessly charming the whole time." He says as he sits there, looking and talking like that.

[tracerjames]

I just love how Paul sounds so earnest and real. He doesn't sound like some jaded actor who's only in it for the money, he sounds like he really cares and feels grateful for the opportunities he was given.

[Villeful]

"I need the voice of a personalityless robot and I thought of you immediately".

[heyjulian]

His acting in Wandavision episode 5 was phenomenal

Edit: The season has ended. That was awesome

[dearthofdoohickeys]

I’m glad he called out the whole “Heath Ledger committed suicide because of playing the Joker” nonsense. Sure that kind of stuff makes for cool campfire stories, but reducing real-life people to that level of fiction is just demeaning.

[calebmcguire]

Whoever told Paul Bettany his career was over is looking at Avengers, Solo and WandaVision swallowing his words. Last night’s episode of WandaVision besides that epic cameo my favorite scene was right before that when Wanda and Vision was arguing while floating and his acting abilities were definitely on display and it was awesome to see.

[ruidiancoffee]

I still can't believe that he's 49, although he's 47 here, he basically doesn't age, it's amazing

[jxmamba]

That’s crazy how the MCU literally saved/rejuvenated his career, amazing talent

[JavierRodriguez]

This guy could be a great villain for a bond movie

[nemowindsor]

My heart hurt with his words for Ledger. There was something in his voice...

[Sharpe]

Paul Bettany steals every movie that he’s in. One of my top 5 favorite actors of all time.

[zan]

He barely talks about his characters. He just gives compliments to the people he worked with and people he admires. Seems like a nice guy.

[godsavevenice]

"He wanted to see something of me in a movie where I wasn't playing a psychopath."
I feel like every British actor can relate to this

[trashmaestro]

if they ever do a david bowie biopic, this guy has got to play him

[stationa]

I just want someone to love me the way ron howard loves paul bettany.

[frogicorn]

He might have a stylist or something, but he totally knows what looks good on him. Yellow lenses, gold jewelry, yellow top, beige/khaki jacket, tortoiseshell buttons. Gosh 😮😍

[tonygonzalez]

They forgot about Legion. Very underrated in this one. He gave Michael such ferocity and compassion. A conflicted angel with a solid gold heart

[rosinecarail]

I want to kiss the guy who forced the producers to let him play Geoffrey Chaucer in a Knight's Tale. This character rocked my entire childhood haha