1,” from “The Acid House” helmer Paul McGuigan, got Bettany an actor nomination at the British Independent Film Awards, which will be held this week.īut not much of his work has been seen widely Stateside.
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Once I saw these black spots on Stellan's gums when he was a little baby and went, "Oh my God, he's got black gum baby death," and she said calmly, "I think that's what happens just before teeth come through sometimes," and I said, "No, call the fucking ambulance!" and I called the doctor, who, of course, said it was just teeth.Paul Bettany has done a lot of good theater, quite a bit of TV and had roles in several film fest travelers, including “Land Girls” (Sundance, 1998) and “After the Rain” (Seattle, Toronto 1999). Jennifer is an amazing mum and she was always brilliant about cutting me slack. And our daughter, Agnes, is seven months old now. Then we had another child, Stellan, which must have been a real shock for Kai, but he was amazing about it. It's hard to say and take out of the context of my life and see it objectively, but I feel that it has informed the level of my concentration on my children and my concentration on the present and their childhood. But there is a huge gift to come from it as well in that, yes, life is fragile – and, yes, we are in a precarious situation – but it is also spectacularly precious. I really have to fight that instinct to surround them in bubble wrap and put a helmet on them. In the playground I am a neurotic parent. His death has had a profound effect on how I am as a parent, in good and bad ways. It was hideous in all shades of hideousness. Quite apart from all of those things, I was missing the person who at the time was the most important person to me. You feel like you are harbouring some dreadful secret about what life is actually like. Not only do you lose that immediately and see the fragility and the precariousness of your own position but you also feel totally alienated from all of your friends. First, it devastated my parents, obviously and, second, it happened to my sister and me at a time when you are supposed to feel that sort of crazy, almost narcissistic confidence as a 16 or 17 year old, feeling that you are somehow indestructible. I was 16 and that was the end of family life from that point, as often happens in families where's there's a death of a child. My brother's death, when he was eight years old, blew the family apart. She died a couple of years ago and I live in America now and I got the news that she had become really quite sick, so I called up to speak to her and she said, "Well, goodness me, I am getting a lot of phone calls, I wonder what this could be all about?" and I thought, she went out with a joke. She was firmly of the opinion that children should be seen and not heard, and I sort of adored her. They'd moved away and became expats in Spain and then something went wrong and they came back to live with us in our house. My grandmother was the matriarch of the family.
I didn't really talk to my parents about much so I'm hard pushed to say what values they instilled. We moved into a house tied to a girls' public boarding school in Hertfordshire in exquisite grounds, but the fantasy of being a teenage boy living next to a girls' school didn't really live up to the reality, in that you fall between boyfriend material and bit of rough and you're sort of, "the staff's son" – you're neither fish nor fowl. I shared a bedroom with my older sister for a long time, then my parents had a third child, my brother, so my dad decided he wanted to move out of London. It was like being born into a different era. We used to live in a little railway cottage with an outside toilet.
My mum and dad were teachers and I was brought up in Willesden in London.
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