Paul Bettany has had an impressive career that has seen him play everything from a heroic synthezoid in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to the best friend and figment of someone's imagination in A Beautiful Mind. Even with this eclectic body of work, though, Bettany has admitted that one of his most beloved films, A Knight's Tale, is a movie he can't revisit, because it reminds him of his co-star, Heath Ledger.
“It was a really long time ago,” Bettany said to Entertainment Weekly when recalling the medieval movie from 2001 that followed William Thatcher (Ledger), a squire who fights to become a knight in jousting tournaments under a different name. Bettany starred as Geoffrey Chaucer, William's hype man during the games, who would go on to become the world-famous author. “It was like another lifetime ago. And people do come up sometimes, people come up to me on the street and quote things at me, and I literally can't remember. I can't remember any of it.”
