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" He&amp;#039;s hard to pin down\u2014and that&amp;#039;s exactly how Paul Bettany likes it. The lanky 38-year-old Brit, who made his cheeky Hollywood debut flashing his ass in A Knight&amp;#039;s Tale in 2001, has since been a figment of the imagination (A Beautiful Mind), a sinister albino monk (The Da Vinci Code), and a 19th-century lord (The Young Victoria). So much for being typecast. &amp;quot;I get bored easily,&amp;quot; he admits. This month there&amp;#039;s no chance of tedium, as two polar-opposite Bettany flicks premiere. In the apocalyptic Legion, Bettany\u2014who stands at a heavenly 6&amp;#039;3&amp;quot;\u2014plays the semiautomatic-toting Archangel Michael. His tough-guy look was enhanced by a set of ripped abs (just glance at his shirtless movie poster and you&amp;#039;ll see what we mean). &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m a European,&amp;quot; Bettany laments of being denied beer, cheese, and bread while filming. &amp;quot;That was my entire diet!&amp;quot; Luckily, the menu for Creation was pub-friendly: To transform into the paunchy Charles Darwin, Bettany gained a whopping 45 pounds. He didn&amp;#039;t miss the gym. &amp;quot;Genetically speaking,&amp;quot; he jokes, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m designed to sit on verandas and have drinks brought to me.&amp;quot; In the film, Bettany&amp;#039;s real-life wife of seven years, Jennifer Connelly, plays the ultrareligious Emma Darwin, who struggles with her husband&amp;#039;s theory of evolution. Working with Connelly added an &amp;quot;easy intimacy&amp;quot; to their scenes. &amp;quot;In marriage,&amp;quot; he teases, &amp;quot;there&amp;#039;s a lot of ignoring each other, which is hard to fake on-screen.&amp;quot; Offscreen, he gushes about teaching his sons\u2014stepson Kai, 12, and Stellan, 6\u2014guitar on weekends spent in Vermont, away from their lower Manhattan loft. On naming their youngest, Bettany explains, &amp;quot;We did a survey, and women thought Stellan was a sexy name. He&amp;#039;ll thank us at 15 when girls are swooning.&amp;quot; Then he jokes, &amp;quot;Paul is an awful name. I might as well be Bob.&amp;quot; Bob, Paul, who cares? We&amp;#039;d love him if his name were Sue. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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