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Article: A young English actor's life tale.(Metropolitan)(Life)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2001
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Actor Paul Bettany, who appears in the new movie "A Knight's Tale," admits to being "29 in your Earth years." This is a flourish that accentuates a thin frame and somewhat elfin face in a curious way, and one wonders why he hasn't been cast as a movie android yet or snapped up by the "Star Trek" apparatus to embody a puckish crew member.
"Knight," however, is set in a somewhat anachronistic 14th-century Europe. The movie champions a poor boy named William (Heath Ledger), who aspires to be the greatest jousting knight on the Continental tour.
Mr. Bettany, a native Londoner who says his basic schooling was sorely deficient, plays a silver-tongued ...