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Paul Bettany jokes about how ‘clever’ Jennifer Connelly ‘wins every argument’

Paul Bettany set the perfect example of ‘happy wife, happy life’Paul Bettany has joked that he has "never won a single argument" against wife Jennifer Connelly.During a recent appearance on the Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers podcast, the VisionQuest actor opened up about…

Paul Bettany jokes about how ‘clever’ Jennifer Connelly ‘wins every argument’
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Paul Bettany set the perfect example of ‘happy wife, happy life’Paul Bettany has joked that he has "never won a single argument" against wife Jennifer Connelly.During a recent appearance on the Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers podcast, the VisionQuest actor opened up about…

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And then, I say something so awful that the whole show becomes about that now.

She's clever.

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She's really clever."In addition, he reflected on the beginnings of their relationship, with him proposing shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, despite them not even officially dating at the time.The pair had co-starred in the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind."We kind of got together and we hadn't, we literally hadn't dated.

We hadn't lived together.

I mean it was the stuff of madness," the 55-year-old expressed."So, I was shooting a film.

I was shooting (2003 film) Master and Commander in Mexico, and I was coming back on the weekends to see her and then I went home to England to pack (so we could live together in New York)."Elsewhere in the chat, Paul also revealed that his parents, Anne Kettle and Thane Bettany, were originally not invited to the couple's nuptials in Scotland on January 1 2003."I broke down at the….

The idea was we'll get married and then we'll play (game) Twister and we did and we'll keep it really low-key, and nobody will know about it," he recalled.

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"And my dad, God bless him, he took pictures and sold them to the press, which is the most peak dad thing."As of current endeavours, Paul Bettany is promoting VisionQuest, new episodes of which are now available on Disney+.

Paul Bettany jokes about how ‘clever’ Jennifer Connelly ‘wins every argument’ October 24, 2026.

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