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- Paul Bettany said on Jimmy Kimmel Live that he "blew out about 10 blood vessels" in his eye while filming a Vision Quest scene.
- Vision Quest's scene in question had Bettany pretending to wear a device on his head that was "doing something to his brain"; he said he was "wildly overacting," calling it "a lesson in less is more."
- CGI was needed to take the injury out, Bettany assumes, after his eye remained red for "like two weeks" — a fix he said "must've cost production so much."
- Vision is, Bettany joked, "kind of myopic": the actor playing the largely indestructible AI said he "can't see a thing" without his glasses, "which is great depending on the actor you're working with."
- Disney+'s Vision Quest is an eight-episode limited series set after WandaVision (2021), following Vision as he communicates with several AI personas embedded in his programming to understand who he is; its Season 1 finale airs Nov. 10.
- Ruaridh Mollica plays a mysterious teen who may be Vision's reincarnated son; with a bounty set on Vision's head, the two go on the run together.
Why it matters: For Vision Quest's production, Bettany's "like two weeks" of a red eye became a CGI cleanup he assumes was costly — a physical price paid by the actor for a character billed as a largely indestructible AI. The eight-episode Disney+ limited series reaches its Season 1 finale on Nov. 10.
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