Paul Bettany's Role In The Marvel Cinematic Universe

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Paul Bettany Panel While attending Chicago Wizard World I got the chance to see the one and only Paul Bettany! Bettany has had a huge role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and so far has been in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War. Coming up he will soon be in both the upcoming Avengers films! He started off by playing J.A.R.V.I.S. (Just a Rather Very Intelligent System). J.A.R.V.I.S. was a computer system designed by Tony Stark that later came to life as Vision. Vision was played by Bettany, which further expanded his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Acknowledging that Bettany has played two very different roles in the MCU, a fan asked which one was his favorite. Bettany responds with, “I’m loving playing Vision. It was fun being Jarvis, but it’s really nice not being anybody’s servant anymore”. A different fan tells Bettany that he thinks one of the coolest parts of the MCU was when the Vision lifted Thor’s hammer, Mjölnir. The fan then said he was upset that Vision didn’t get to keep the hammer so he offered Bettany a custom made Mjölnir with the Avengers vision logo on the hammer. …show more content…

who was J.A.R.V.I.S.’s replacement. Bettany says, “It was Kevin Feige’s idea. He rung me up and was like, “don’t you think it would be like the most meta thing in the world?” and I was like, “Yeah I do”. Then I looked up what meta means. I googled meta and was like yeah, I guess he’s right!”. Afterwards, Bettany revealed that if he could play a Marvel super villain he would play Thanos. Bettany explains, “My mate is having a ball playing Thanos right now, how awesome is that? Thanos is awesome. I would choose Thanos”. He then says that his favorite DC hero is Batman and his favorite DC villain is the Joker. Bettany says, “Heath’s portray of the Joker was magnificent. He caught this sort of punk chaos of it all

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