An over-the-top performance on the set of Marvel’s “VisionQuest” left him with a gruesome eye injury that lasted two weeks.<\/p>\n
“So, 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,” he explained during an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”<\/a><\/p>\n JAMES MCAVOY SAYS HE \u2018NEARLY DIED\u2019 AFTER HIS LUNGS COLLAPSED FOLLOWING BOTCHED BIOPSY<\/a><\/p>\n Paul Bettany revealed he burst roughly 10 blood vessels in his eye while filming Marvel’s “VisionQuest” after admittedly overacting during a scene. (Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images for Disney)<\/p>\n “I mean, I was it was a lesson in less is more,” Bettany added, before Kimmel showed a photo of his bloody injury to the audience.<\/p>\n Bettany admitted he was stuck with his injured eye for two weeks, but said that the show must go on.<\/p>\n “I think … it must have cost production so much to take it out because we shot the whole [thing].”<\/p>\n GET ENTERTAINMENT SCOOP DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR EMAIL BY CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/p>\n The actor said the eye injury lasted two weeks, forcing production to digitally remove the damage from footage filmed during that time. (Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for Disney)<\/p>\n And despite playing a character known for his superhuman vision, Bettany admitted his own eyesight was far from perfect.<\/p>\n “I mean the irony is the actor playing Vision is kind of myopic, you know. I can’t see a thing when I take my glasses off, which is great depending on the actor,” he joked.<\/p>\n Bettany reprised his role as Vision for the Disney+ series<\/a> \u2013 the final chapter of a television trilogy that began with “WandaVision” in 2021 and continued with “Agatha All Along” in 2024.<\/p>\n In “VisionQuest,” Bettany portrays a rebuilt version of Vision who is struggling to understand his identity and recover a sense of purpose.<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU’RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n Despite playing a superhero named Vision, Paul Bettany admitted he is nearsighted and can barely see without his glasses. (Gareth Cattermole\/Getty Images for Disney)<\/p>\n “So when we find vision, he has had his memories restored, but he is unable or perhaps unwilling to attach any feelings to them,” Bettany told Kimmel. “And he is living a very quiet life in a pub in Scotland where he works.”<\/p>\n “At night he goes and lives in the fridge freezer, and he goes inside his own head and in that head is a kind of what we call the mind space, and it’s a mansion,” he explained, comparing the concept to the movie “Inside Out.”<\/p>\n “In that head, in that mansion are a bunch of different AIs who have differing personalities that help him sort of sift through the data of the day and understand humanity,” he added.<\/p>\n PUT YOUR ENTERTAINMENT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TEST AND SEE HOW YOU SCORE<\/a><\/p>\n Paul Bettany reprised his role as Vision in the Disney+ series “VisionQuest,” which premiered Oct. 13 and marked the final chapter of a television trilogy that began with “WandaVision” in 2021. (Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n Bettany got his start in the Marvel universe as J.A.R.V.I.S, Tony Stark’s artificial intelligence assistant. His new character, Vision, was created when the Avengers<\/a> uploaded J.A.R.V.I.S.’s AI into a synthetic body originally designed by Ultron, using the Mind Stone to bring him to life.<\/p>\n “Do AI companies try to get you to do J.A.R.V.I.S. for them?” Kimmel asked.<\/p>\n “Gosh, I wish,” he said. “I would be hanging up my acting.”<\/p>\n “Maybe that is a seed that has now been planted,” Kimmel joked.<\/p>\n![\"Paul](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/paul-bettany-avengers-infinity-war-london.jpg\")
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