As the world has figured out that the Vision is a bonafide superstar, Paul Bettany wasn’t always feeling the love. In a recent interview with Business Insider, he reveals that he wasn’t having the best of days before he got the call to don the cape and metallic skin of the heroic android.
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“I’d actually just had a meeting with a producer who had told me I was never going to work again and I stepped out into Hollywood and I sat on the sidewalk with my feet in the gutter and I thought ‘f— me,’” Bettany said. Which is a weird thing to say to somebody who had provided the voice of Tony Stark’s AI program JARVIS, but anyways, it was after that that Bettany took a call from director Joss Whedon, who asked him if he wanted to play the Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The answer was a no-brainer.
“I said yes. And I sort of looked up to heaven and thought karma’s very quick these days … and flipped the building behind me the finger.” Despite being unfamiliar with the character before taking the role, Bettany made the character shine and definitely one of the high notes of the film.
So, remember kids, if you’re having a bad day, be sure to answer your phone if Joss Whedon calls.
