Paul Bettany Interview - Priest and Creation
BAFTA/LA hosted their 7th annual Tea Party celebrating the Primetime Emmys on Sept. 19, 2009. Paul Bettany was one of the stars who showed up to partake in the festivities, and on the red carpet he talked about 2 of his films: 'Priest' & 'Creation.'
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Transcript: Paul Bettany Interview - Priest and Creation
Rebecca Murray from About.com Hollywood Movies at the 2009 British Academy of Film and Television Arts/Los Angeles TV Tea Party.
Paul Bettany – Priest and Creation
Aren't you supposed to busy at work right now?
Paul Bettany: "They gave me a day off. I can't kill vampires every day."
Is that what you've been doing?
Paul Bettany: "Yeah, it's exhausting."
Even after Legion Priest is exhausting?
Paul Bettany: "Yes, Priest is even more exhausting than Legion. There's a lot more jumping around."
Is there? Wire work?
Paul Bettany: "Yeah, wire work. It's great."
And the vampires, you get to kill one and don't have to become one?
Paul Bettany: "That's right."
What can we expect from it? Is it sci-fi, action, Western…what is it?
Paul Bettany: "It's all of those things. All of those things in one bundle. It's a really fun script and beautifully designed. And I'm having a great stunt team and I love working with Scott Stewart, the director, and I'm having a ball."
What was the appeal of something like this for you because it's not something you usually do?
Paul Bettany: "Well there's a sort of double life that I have as far as acting. I love making films like Creation about Charles Darwin, but I would be lying if I… The truth is when I was a kid my mom gave me a set of holsters, two holsters and guns and a cowboy hat. I ran around shooting things. And I suddenly thought, 'Well, it'd be really nice approaching 40 to have a ball doing that.'"
Does it feel as good now as it did back then?
Paul Bettany: "It feels even better because I have a bunch of friends who can put me on a wire and throw me up into the air."
And Creation we're going to actually get to see it because it's getting a release in America. I can't wait to see it. It's getting such great buzz.
Paul Bettany: "It was an amazing experience, making it. I'm really glad that it's got a North American distributor, and I'm very excited for it. I'm proud of the movie."