Just days before the emergence of his latest character, it feels like as good a time as any to consider the man’s greatest contributions to society, and to thoughtfully examine his most important roles, in both life and film. When you watch Bettany, you know it’s Bettany, even as you think, Wow, what a choice for Paul Bettany. While he is able to become other people, he also has a knack for remaining very much himself, imbuing each of his characters with a Bettanyesque mix of British charm, British modesty, British eccentricity, and British self-deprecation. But it’s also important to note that he’s not Christian Bale, a man disappearing into characters.
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Paul Bettany presumably does not say “no” he says, “I never saw myself as a romantic professional athlete, because I’m quite thin and often play scary characters, but OK, let’s get weird.” He quietly has one of the biggest ranges of any actor in Hollywood, leapfrogging from priests to robots to Unabombers so skillfully that it hardly registers. To use his own words, he’s placed himself imaginatively in different people’s positions-like, in A LOT of different people’s positions. And those are merely a handful of roles he’s taken on in film the list gets much longer when measuring the figures he’s portrayed in his real life (husband, father, lover of hued glasses). He has been a famous wordsmith, a religious devotee, an even more intense religious devotee, a washed tennis player in love, a sweater-wearing robot, and, most recently, a berobed crime lord with the same last name as a premium water company in the forthcoming Solo.
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He is a man who, since first appearing on a British TV series called Wycliffe in 1994, has been devoted to becoming other people. Paul Bettany is a man who does what he speaks. If you’re actively engaged in trying to be a good actor, you’re placing yourself imaginatively in different people’s positions. Trying to be a good actor has to be involved with placing yourself imaginatively in different people’s circumstances.
I’ve got lots of weak suits, but I think you have to be if you’re an actor.
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