'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

Paul Bettany, known for his Marvel relation arsenic Vision, has said helium remains incapable to rewatch his breakthrough show successful 2001 medieval drama A Knight's Tale, pursuing the nonaccomplishment of co-star Heath Ledger.

A Knight's Tale features Ledger arsenic squire-turned-knight William, with Bettany his sidekick, playing a mentation of real-life writer Geoffrey Chaucer. The movie helped motorboat some of the actors' careers and retains a cult pursuing for its likable formed and stone euphony soundtrack.

"I saw [the film] erstwhile it archetypal came out. I've ne'er seen it again since," Bettany said, reflecting connected the task astatine L.A. Comic Con (as reported by Entertainment Weekly). "There are tons of reasons for that, and conscionable 1 of them is that I miss Heath excessively much."

Bettany continued by saying the movie present felt "like different beingness ago," though said helium inactive had radical greet him connected the thoroughfare by quoting lines from the movie.

Ledger went connected to prima successful Monster's Ball, Casanova and Brokeback Mountain, though remains astir celebrated for his award-winning crook arsenic the Joker successful 2008's Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight, for which helium won a posthumous Academy Award. Ledger died successful January 2008, soon aft completing filming for the role, owed to an accidental medicine cause overdose.

"I tin archer you that helium conscionable had a airy that shined disconnected him," Bettany said of Ledger, successful an interrogation with Vulture published backmost successful 2021. "He was a movie star, you know? Just immediately, you met him, and helium shone, arsenic you batch say, and it was precise hard not to autumn successful emotion with him — I deliberation for anybody. He was a precise playful, joyous spirit."

Bettany is acceptable to instrumentality arsenic Vision successful adjacent year's Marvel TV bid Vision Quest, which volition illustration his character's travel pursuing the events of deed Disney+ bid Wandavision.

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