Had a fun interview just now with actor Paul Bettany ("A Beautiful Mind," "Wimbledon"), who's here at Comic-Con promoting "Legion," a January release in which he'll play the Archangel Michael, who goes up against an angry God in defense of the human race, about which you'll be hearing more later.
But starting next month, Bettany will be playing a vampire-killer in a film called "Priest," and though you'd think that might put him on the side of the angels once again, the guy clearly had vamp sympathies.
In fact, with a rash of TV and movie projects featuring the angst-ridden undead, the actor thinks people are overlooking the bright side of the dark side.
"Living forever. I'm quite high on the whole thing," he joked. "If I were a vampire, I'd turn my kids the minute they turned 21."
In the meantime, Bettany, who has a son, 5, and a stepson, 12, with actress Jennifer Connelly, has brought them to Comic-Con, where, on a visit two years ago, he said the younger one was enormously impressed to see people dressed as "Star Wars" storm troopers.
"I don't really have a desire for my children to see me in films," he said. "They see enough of me."
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