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Paul Bettany Blew Out Eye Blood Vessels Filming VisionQuest

Actor Paul Bettany burst about ten blood vessels in his eye while filming an intense scene for the Marvel series VisionQuest.

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Actor Paul Bettany burst about ten blood vessels in his eye while filming the upcoming television series VisionQuest, according to Variety TV and Fox News. The incident occurred during an on-screen acting choice while pretending to wear a brain device, Yahoo News UK and AOL.com both report. [1][5][6][7]

Variety TV reported that Bettany spoke about the injury during a recent appearance on the talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. Bettany stated that he was pretending to have a device on his head that was doing something to his brain, adding that he was wildly overacting when the injury took place, according to Variety TV and AOL.com. [1][7]

Bettany is an English actor who plays the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero Vision. He previously portrayed the character J.A.R.V.I.S. and starred in the Disney+ series WandaVision in 2021, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. [8]

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In short

  • Paul Bettany burst approximately ten blood vessels in his eye while filming VisionQuest.
  • The injury happened while Bettany was performing a scene involving a head device.
  • Bettany recounted the filming incident during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Sources

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  1. [1]Paul Bettany Says He ‘Blew Out’ 10 Blood Vessels in His Eye While Filming ‘VisionQuest’: ‘I Was Just Wildly Overacting’Variety TV, 6h ago (the report this story comes from)
  2. [2]Judge Again Tosses Out Donald Trump’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against The Wall Street Journal Over Its Reporting On Jeffrey Epstein Birthday LetterDeadline, 6h ago
  3. [3]Paul Bettany Says He ‘Blew Out’ 10 Blood Vessels in His Eye While Filming ‘VisionQuest’: ‘I Was Just Wildly Overacting’Variety, 5h ago
  4. [4]Paul Bettany Says He ‘Blew Out’ 10 Blood Vessels in His Eye While Filming ‘VisionQuest’: ‘I Was Just Wildly Overacting’IMDb, 4h ago
  5. [5]Paul Bettany 'blew out about 10 blood vessels' in his eye filming VisionQuestYahoo News UK, 1d ago
  6. [6]Marvel star Paul Bettany blew out 10 blood vessels in his eye during wild ‘VisionQuest’ sceneFox News, 13h ago
  7. [7]Paul Bettany blew out 10 blood vessels in his eye while ‘wildly overacting’ on “VisionQuest”AOL.com, 1d ago

Background

  1. [8]Paul Bettany on Wikipedia
  2. [9]Eye for an Eye (2025 film) on Wikipedia
  3. [10]The Hero: Love Story of a Spy on Wikipedia

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 10 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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