Paul Bettany

Back on the stand for the 3rd day, the Pirates star struggled under cross examination as his history of substance use & threats to about his ex were heard ...

“They have always been a medicine for me, a numbing agent,” Depp reiterated on Thursday of his use of various substances. While the op-ed never mentioned Depp by name, as Rottenborn made a repeated point of in his initial cross examination on Wednesday, the actor proclaimed that the article cost the one-time blockbuster cost actor big bucks roles, a return to the Pirates franchise and “devastated” his career. “I’ll smack the ugly c*nt around before I let her in,” another 2014 text from Depp to a friend read. The actor bristled over low key lawyer Rottenoborn’s description of him being “in a blackout” for portions of a private jet flight from Boston to LA where Depp and Heard fought over Franco. Laying a very obvious foundation to counter Depp and his team’s assertion of the actor’s behavior during the relationship with Heard, Rottenborn also read out a May 30, 2014 text to Bettany that seemed to give credence to Heard’s accusations of abuse and her ex-husband’s consumption levels. That remark didn’t seem to impress the jury and other onlookers, many of whom are self-declared Depp fans. Much more subdued than in the highly charged closing minutes of Wednesday’s testimony, a black-suited Depp was asked at length about his abusive childhood and his aspirations to meet the standards of a “Southern gentleman,” as defense attorney Ben Rottenborn termed it. “I don’t feel like I am wasting anyone’s time, sir,” the actor piped up on one occasion as Rottenborn tried to cut short a long-winded reply. A 2014 attempt at Depp detoxing saw the actor take a much less flamboyant and aggressive approach to his text. Brooks took the litigious Depp to LA Superior Court in July 2018 and the case is still winding its way through the judicial process. As more photographs and texts messages were displayed in court, Depp sought again to stress his intake wasn’t about enjoyment, but trying to handle the blast radius from his dysfunctional childhood and cinematic workload. Subsequently, the lawyer read out testimony from Depp’s failed 2020 UK libel case against The Sun tabloid where the actor had said “I was abusing alcohol for sure” during the end of the Paradis relationship.

WandaVision star Paul Bettany believes he may return to the role of The Vision in the Marvel Cinematic Universe at some point.

That's not the one that she said goodbye to on a hill in Wakanda. That's the body and the data. WandaVision will lead into Multiverse of Madness, with Olsen noting the movie wouldn't make sense without it. "That's not the man that she had children with. Bettany also discussed his own plans for the character of White Vision, saying he has "thoughts about what would be great to do," but opted not to risk spoiling them by revealing what they were. During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Bettany initially joked about not reprising the role "for any kind of money at all" when asked about Vision before answering the question more seriously. "He's not [Wanda's] guy," she explained.

Heard's lawyer focused on a 2013 text exchange between Depp and the actor Paul Bettany in which Depp said: “Let's burn Amber!!!”

He had also previously testified that he drank only a glass of Champagne as he boarded the plane. The texts were sent during a period in which Depp said he had stopped drinking. Heard’s lawyers argue that Depp can’t deny what happened because he was often drunk and high on drugs to the point of blacking out.

In a text message to Paul Bettany read aloud in court, Johnny Depp discussed killing Amber Heard, writing 'drown her before we burn her'

Depp denied the claims, and the former couple settled their divorce out of court in August 2016. In March 2021, his attempt to overturn the decision was overruled. "Amber did suffer sexual violence at the hands of Depp. ... You will hear in the most graphic and horrifying terms about the violence that she suffered. Bettany has previously expressed that it was "embarrassing" to have his texts made public when they were used in the U.K. libel case Depp brought against The Sun, which he lost. She will get on the stand and she will tell you that. When discussing the headline used for the online version of Heard's op-ed, the attorney explained that she did not write that headline herself or get to approve it. About the headline, "tragically, it's true," Rottenborn told the courtroom. Heard has not yet taken the stand in this court case. Depp originally filed the $50 million lawsuit in March 2019. Actress Evan Rachel Wood first opened up in 2016 about being sexually assaulted by a "significant other" and subsequently testified in support of multiple pieces of legislation that protect survivors of sexual assault. Texts from June 2013 showed the two joking about how to murder Heard, with Depp writing, "Let's drown her before we burn her!!! Paul Bettany is a good friend, yes."

With over a decades' worth of film and television projects behind it, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has become the gold standard for first-rate franchising ...

At the moment, though, Kevin Feige and the Marvel Studios creative team are keeping their universe fresh and energized by flooding the gates with new heroes, including the likes of "Black Widow" breakout Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), new Hawkeye Kate Bishop (Hailee Stienfeld), and Moon Knight (Oscar Isaac) having already made their debuts. Whatever the case, we'll just be happy to have Bettany back, either way. Bettany continued, "And Kevin Feige is a man who doesn't really allow loose ends.

Paul Bettany teases the possibility of his return to the MCU franchise as Vision, explaining that Kevin Feige would not leave his arc on loose ends.

For now, it remains a matter of when the audience will see Vision again on screen. Therefore, it still leaves the possibility open for him to return in Doctor Strange 2 or even Disney+’s forthcoming Armor Wars. No, the honest answer to that is — well maybe it's not the honest answer, but it's the answer I'm going to give you and you'll just have to cope with it — at the end of WandaVision, you see Vision fly off and that's a loose end," he says. Therefore, Bettany says he believes that Vision may return soon, though he claims to be unsure of when that may be. In an interview with EW, Bettany responds to whether he will return to the MCU to portray Vision again. In WandaVision, Wanda manipulated reality to bring back Vision using chaos magic, while S.W.O.R.D had resurrected the original body of Vision to utilize him as a living weapon, known as White Vision.

Johnny Depp accepted taking drugs with Paul Bettany and Marilyn Manson amid a defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard. The Pirates of the Caribbean star was ...

Johnny Depp admits he first took one of his mother’s “nerve pills” at the age of 11 Depp also took a position that his career greatly suffered due to a 2018 op-ed write-up she wrote in The Washington Post referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The Aquaman actor’s lawyer Ben Rottenborn asked Depp about taking pills with Manson, to which the actor replied that he “once gave Marilyn Manson a pill so that he would stop talking so much”.

Johnny Depp was back on the stand Thursday in his $100million defamation trial against Amber Heard where horrific texts from Depp speaking about her were ...

I grabbed that and sat in my seat, opened the bottle and poured myself a shot and drank it However Depp took the stand Wednesday and told the court that Heard was angry at him after she met with his lawyers to discuss a post nuptial agreement. Heard claims that he chopped off his fingertip with a knife during the argument, and her team has called it a 'three day hostage situation' where Depp was repeatedly violent. She knew the dogs as well as I did and knew that did not come from a dog.' And she got up off the bed and she squared off at me in the doorway of our bedroom. I was shown a picture of what the problem was. Depp dismisses Heard's abuse allegations as a 'hoax' and claims he was actually the victim of her violence. He said: 'The argument escalated and she simply reached down and grabbed the can of mineral spirits and chucked it at my face. Rottenborn read out a text sent after the flight from Boston to Los Angeles in May 2014 where Heard claims Depp was abusive and drunk. Depp and Heard reach a $7 million divorce settlement which the actress promises to give to charity. That was the sound that I'd gotten very used to, the squabbling, the raising of the voice to excommunicate anything I had to say about the situation.' When I knelt down on my hands and knees to look at her foot, she kicked the bathroom door into my head.

Paul Bettany teased his Marvel return during a recent interview. The WandaVision star talked to Entertainment Weekly about the possibility of putting the ...

"And, again, I said I was going to be entirely honest with you ... Am I in Doctor Strange? Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no. "No, the honest answer to that is — well maybe it's not the honest answer, but it's the answer I'm going to give you and you'll just have to cope with it — at the end of WandaVision, you see Vision fly off and that's a loose end. But, Bettany was in a joking mood again when the question came up. So, it stands to reason that the Vision actor will be back in the fold at some point. The WandaVision star talked to Entertainment Weekly about the possibility of putting the Vision makeup back on in the near future. (There's probably an amount of money that could get just about any "retired" MCU actor back in the saddle again.) But, more relatively, the actor says that his ending in WandaVision constitutes a "loose end."

I don't want to imagine a Marvel Cinematic Universe where we don't have a Vision. I think, particularly after "WandaVision," he's the heart of the MCU.

You can't have a grieving Wanda who has lost the man she loves not address the fact that there is a version of him out there with Vision's memories. They discuss how over time, the planks of wood in the Ship of Theseus rot and are replaced, and ask whether it's still the Ship of Theseus, or if the removed planks are restored and reassembled without the rot, is that still the Ship of Theseus? The answer from White Vision is, "Neither is the true ship. White Vision says, "I am Vision," and flies through the skylight. They battle it out in a library, but Vision stops him in his tracks with the Ship of Theseus thought experiment from the field of identity metaphysics. Yeah, he was talking about himself, in his scenes as Vision and as White Vision. He's a funny guy, that Paul Bettany! If you don't recall the nerd battle (I saw that with love, truly) between the two Visions from "WandaVision," S.W.O.R.D.'s created White Vision attacks Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen), and Vision comes in to save her.

Johnny Depp's graphic text exchanges with Avengers actor Paul Bettany were revealed in court on Thursday. During his third day on the witness stand, ...

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The court was shown text exchanges between Bettany and Depp, including one in which the two actors once joked about killing Heard.

All I can tell you is that it was an unpleasant feeling." While Depp was not named in the article, his lawyers argue that Heard's implication is obvious. Paul wrote back: "I'm not sure we should burn Amber. She is delightful company and pleasing on the eye. He's not a good man if he's bringing up sexual violence." Bettany previously said he was "embarrassed" to have his texts made public, telling The Times earlier this year: "I knew him before. We could of course do the English course of action and perform a drowning test.