Paul Bettany Says He ‘Blew Out’ 10 Blood Vessels in His Eye While Filming ‘VisionQuest’: ‘I Was Just Wildly Overacting’

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Payton Turkeltaub

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Paul Bettany might play Marvel superhero Vision, but an on-screen acting choice while filming “VisionQuest” nearly cost him that very sense when the “Iron Man” actor accidentally popped 10 blood vessels in his eyes.

“I was pretending to have a device on my head that is doing something to my brain, and I was just wildly overacting, and I blew out about 10 blood vessels in my eye,” said Bettany during a recent appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” “It was a lesson in less is more,” he laughed, before Kimmel showed audiences a shot of his blood-filled eyeball.

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