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Paul Bettany Always Looks Like He's About To Crumble To Death With A Gentle Smile
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Paul Bettany Always Looks Like He's About To Crumble To Death With A Gentle Smile

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Daniel Lavery
May 19, 2018
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One thing that Avengers: Infinity War (don’t worry, no spoilers) really clarified for me is the degree to which Paul Bettany has spent the last eighteen years of his career smiling gently-but-sadly against a warm afternoon sun while the skin around his eyes crinkles to signal genuine goodwill and irreversible moral compromise. It’s the whole degree, is …

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