Paul Bettany compromised his vision filming VisionQuest
The actor told Jimmy Kimmel that he was guilty of "wildly overacting" and popped about 10 blood vessels in his eye.
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Paul Bettany took his Vision performance so far that he popped multiple blood vessels while filming his standalone series VisionQuest. “I was pretending to have a device on my head that is doing something to my brain, and I was just wildly overacting, and I blew out about 10 blood vessels in my eye,” Bettany said during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “It was a lesson in less is more.” Kimmel cracked a joke about Bettany’s ability to pop a blood vessel on command, prompting laughter from the audience—which quickly turned to horrified and grossed-out gasps as the host showed a close-up photo of Bettany’s red left eye. The actor said that he was stuck like that for two weeks, and it “must have cost production so much” to edit his eye and cover up the injury. “The irony is the actor playing Vision is kind of myopic, you know,” Bettany added. “Can’t see a thing when I take my glasses off, which is great, depending on the actor.”
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