Paul Bettany Shares Vision’s Heartbreaking Death Scene Was Improvised
The Marvel Cinematic Universe had several heartbreaking moments, and Vision’s death in Avengers: Infinity War is one of them. It turns out, the moment was improvised, Vision actor Paul Bettany reveals.
Paul Bettany attended MegaCon in Orlando, Florida, and, discussed his role in an interview with Collider. The actor played Vision, a synthetic humanoid created by Ultron in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and he had a relationship with Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch. Their tragic love story ended with Vision’s death in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, and the first idea for Vision’s death wasn’t working out, so Bettany and Olsen improvised the scene.
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“[Directors] The Russo Brothers came up to us [Bettany and Olsen] and said, ‘Hey, listen, can you just improvise this scene?‘ And I go, ‘What? Improvise being a robot getting killed?’ I’ve got no frame of reference!” Bettany shared. “And Lizzie was just laughing at it, and we’re so relaxed with each other that… I don’t know how it would’ve worked other than that, because we both really trust each other and, somehow, we got to something that worked.”
In typical Marvel fashion, the actor revealed that he didn’t really know who was going to die: “It was hilarious. None of us knew who was gonna die until like the day before or something like that,” said Bettany. Bettany added, “They showed us a sort of pre-visualization of that and everybody was like, well, I guess I gotta take the kids out of private school.”
Following his heartbreaking death, Vision reprised his role in the critically-acclaimed Disney+ miniseries WandaVision with Olsen. Alternate versions of Vision also appear in Disney+’s animated series What If… There have been rumors about a Vision Quest series that would bring the character back, but Marvel Studios has yet to confirm the series. It’s also unclear whether Olsen will return to the MCU. Scarlet Witch appeared to have died at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and there are no official plans for her to return.
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Paul Bettany Explains How His Role Happened
Before playing Vision, Bettany played Tony Stark’s artificial intelligence, JARVIS. He later becomes a synthetic being with the help of JARVIS and the Mind Stone, and he joked that 2008’s Iron Man‘s director Jon Favreau wanted someone with “no personality” when he got the call.
“Jon Favreau, who played my agent in a movie called Wimbledon, he said, “Look, I’m directing this thing called Iron Man and I need somebody who has no personality at all, and I immediately thought of you.” How do you say no to that?” Bettany asked.
“So I was doing it, and it was a lot of fun and I turn up at the end and solve everybody’s problem, solve what they hadn’t been able to make clear [on] camera, I could just say, “The bad guys are coming, and they’re right behind you!” or whatever… I think I made everybody laugh, and they went, oh, it’d be nice to have him on set. That’s how I think it happened. I think they just thought I’d be fun to hang out with.”
Although his future in the MCU is still unclear, Paul Bettany has several projects lined up. He will star in Robert Zemeckis’ drama Here, which also stars Tom Hanks, Kelly Reilly, Rob Wright. He will also be playing Pop Art legend Andy Warhol in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s The Collaboration.
Source: Collider
- Release Date
- April 27, 2018
- Director
- Anthony Russo , Joe Russo
- Cast
- Robert Downey Jr. , Chris Hemsworth , Mark Ruffalo , Chris Evans , Scarlett Johansson , Don Cheadle , Benedict Cumberbatch , Tom Holland , Chadwick Boseman , Zoe Saldana , Karen Gillan , Josh Brolin , Tom Hiddleston , Paul Bettany , Elizabeth Olsen , Anthony Mackie , Sebastian Stan , Idris Elba , Danai Gurira
- Runtime
- 2 hours 29 minutes
