Paul Bettany

I'm Oliver Trevena here at the Young Hollywood Studio. This very handsome man next to me, Paul Bettany. How are you?

Very good, thank you. Nice to meet you.

Very good. That was a good start, wasn't it?

Hey, you did very well. I like the handsome bit. See, I'm actually a really nice person. Full of friendship and love.

Hey, cameraman. The Tourist. Yes. Um how was that filming that movie with such a small cast of unknown actors?

It was dreadful. Yeah. Yeah, and consequently I'm having to do a lot of press because we're, you know, sadly lacking in movie stars in the movie. Yeah. So, I'm hawking the film around. Yeah. I'm trying to help Johnny's sadly flagging career.

It's gone down hill, wasn't it?

It has. Ever since that Pirate thing.

Yeah. Ever since 21 Jump Street.

Yeah, exactly. Which I was a massive fan of.

Was you a fan of that?

Never seen it in my life.

Really? No. Really? Yeah. I don't believe it. That was it's quite big back home.

How old are you?

22. Plus that. You weren't watching 21? No, you weren't. I was. I was honestly watching 21 Jump Street. But anyway, onto The Tourist. You were you were seven when 21 Jump Street.

I was very mature seven-year-old.

Was it um pretty crazy in Venice with all obviously the Paparazzi and stuff?

I I had none of it because we all of our scenes were inside with me and Johnny and Angie. I hear it was mayhem on the canals but I didn't get to see any of it.

Well, I can only imagine if you were there too. It would have been crazy. They would have probably had to shut down Venice.

I said Johnny, you might not be used to this sort of thing. So, just be warned. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly.

They probably wrote your scenes inside. That's right. For that exact reason. Now you live in New York, what do you get up to in your spare time?

You know, I have two kids. So my my life is very much, you know, I take the kids to school. Yeah, I take the kids to school and and walk the dog, which is annoying cuz I got a really cute dog, an Australian Shepherd. And people come up and try and talk to me the whole time, which is just a nightmare. Yeah. Or other people with with dogs who think suddenly you got something in common just cuz you both have a dog. Okay. Don't like that.

Well you put it out there now. Yeah. And you've also got the problem of having in New York City, you're having to pick up poop. Yeah. Whilst potentially being photographed.

Cuz I was going to say, you should pick up poop anyway.

You should, yeah, you have to.

But you know, you're you're kind of pick up the poop and you can see them all point yes, just.

Oh, so you actually think about not picking it up.

Well, you're kind of in a bit I'm in a bit of a quandry. I mean, I end up picking it up. Wow. And I haven't seen one published but there's somewhere there's lots of pictures of me picking up my, you know, my dog's poop.

Poop. Yeah. Great pictures, I saw them.

You did?

Yeah. Yeah. That all I look at actually.

That's that's peculiar.

Well, I think we've covered the film, the poop,

Yeah.

the dog issue.

Yeah. Don't talk to me.

Don't talk to him. That was about the dog issue, not me. It was mostly about you.

Okay.