{"id":188139,"date":"2025-10-03T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188139\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T19:50:07","slug":"i-miss-heath-too-much-marvel-star-paul-bettany-still-feels-the-loss-of-joker-legend-heath-ledger-and-still-cant-watch-a-knights-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/188139\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Miss Heath Too Much’: Marvel Star Paul Bettany Still Feels the Loss of Joker Legend Heath Ledger, and Still Can’t Watch A Knight’s Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Bettany, known for his Marvel role as Vision, has said he remains unable to rewatch his breakthrough performance in 2001 medieval comedy A Knight’s Tale<\/a>, following the loss of co-star Heath Ledger. <\/p>\n

A Knight’s Tale features Ledger as squire-turned-knight William, with Bettany his sidekick, playing a version of real-life writer Geoffrey Chaucer. The movie helped launch both of the actors’ careers and retains a cult following for its likable cast and rock music soundtrack. <\/p>\n

“I saw [the film] when it first came out. I’ve never seen it again since,” Bettany said, reflecting on the project at L.A. Comic Con (as reported by Entertainment Weekly<\/a>). “There are lots of reasons for that, and just one of them is that I miss Heath too much.”<\/p>\n

Bettany continued by saying the movie now felt “like another lifetime ago,” though said he still had people greet him on the street by quoting lines from the movie.<\/p>\n

Ledger went on to star in Monster’s Ball, Casanova and Brokeback Mountain, though remains most famous for his award-winning turn as the Joker in 2008’s Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight, for which he won a posthumous Academy Award. Ledger died in January 2008, shortly after completing filming for the role, due to an accidental prescription drug overdose.<\/p>\n

“I can tell you that he just had a light that shined off him,” Bettany said of Ledger, in an interview with Vulture<\/a> published back in 2021. “He was a movie star, you know? Just immediately, you met him, and he shone, as you lot say, and it was very hard not to fall in love with him \u2014 I think for anybody. He was a very playful, joyous spirit.”<\/p>\n

Bettany is set to return as Vision in next year’s Marvel TV series Vision Quest<\/a>, which will chart his character’s journey following the events of hit Disney+ series Wandavision.<\/p>\n

Image credit: Photo by Jody Cortes\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Bettany, known for his Marvel role as Vision, has said he remains unable to rewatch his breakthrough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-188139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}