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- Paul Bettany told Jimmy Kimmel Live he was "wildly overacting" while pretending a device on his head was doing something to his brain, and blew out about 10 blood vessels in his eye.
- VisionQuest production had to "take it out" of the final shots after Bettany's eye remained blood-filled for two weeks.
- Jimmy Kimmel Live played audiences a shot of Bettany's blood-filled eyeball while he called the incident "a lesson in less is more."
- Disney+ debuted Marvel's long-awaited eight-episode spinoff VisionQuest on October 14, with Bettany starring as the android and former Avenger Vision.
- Bettany returns to the MCU with the series after roles in Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and WandaVision.
- Vision was first introduced in the first Iron Man movie as J.A.R.V.I.S., the AI voice that controls Tony Stark's powered suit of armor.
- James Spader reprises his role as Ultron from Avengers: Age of Ultron, alongside Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, James D'Arcy, Orla Brady, Emily Hampshire and Ruaridh Mollica.
Why it matters: Bettany's over-the-top take on the brain-device scene forced VisionQuest to drop footage from the final cut: about 10 blood vessels ruptured, his eye stayed blood-filled for two weeks, and production had to remove the shots. The takeaway he offered himself, ahead of the October 14 Disney+ debut, was "less is more."
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