Paul Bettany suffers eye injury while 'overacting' on 'VisionQuest' set
Actor Paul Bettany sustained a burst blood vessel injury in his eye while filming an intense scene for the upcoming Marvel series 'VisionQuest'. Bettany joked about the irony of the injury while discussing his character's journey in the new show.
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Paul Bettany's return to the Marvel universe came with an unexpected injury. An over-the-top performance on the set of Marvel's "VisionQuest" left him with a gruesome eye injury that lasted two weeks. "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." JAMES MCAVOY SAYS HE ‘NEARLY DIED’ AFTER HIS LUNGS COLLAPSED FOLLOWING BOTCHED BIOPSY "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. Bettany admitted he was stuck with his injured eye for two weeks but said the show must go on. "I think ...
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