Being True to you in the Entertainment Industry
You have got to love people in the entertainment industry who are honest about everything they do. Take for example Joan Rivers who freely expresses the loads of plastic surgery that she has gone through. It`s nice and refreshing to meet someone in such a secretive industry, such as entertainment, who is honest and true about themselves. British actor Paul Bettany is still adjusting to his life in the US with actress wife Jennifer Connelly but insists he won`t give up his English sense of style.
The star left his homeland to join his Oscar-winning wife in Brooklyn, New York City, and is still getting used to the transition. He explains, "When I first arrived here to live, Jennifer had brought me over like a mail-order bride. I turned up in this tiny one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan where she had been living for 10 years. We had a baby on the way, and I thought, `No way am I living like this.` So we found this neighborhood in Brooklyn with lots of kids and great bars and restaurants."
Bettany, who will soon appear in "The Da Vinci Code" playing the Opus Dei monk Silas, insists he won`t compromise when it comes to his sense of style because it would just look wrong. He adds, "I`m English, so I can`t wear a baseball cap. I`d look like white trash, like I should have a beer and a dog called Skeeter. I do wear a Mets baseball jersey, though - but simply to annoy my father-in-law." The actor admits he nearly missed out on the killer "Da Vinci Code role" because he refused to read the best-selling book, thinking that it had to be lightweight due to its mainstream popularity. Once he read the book, though, he was drawn into it. "When the script turned up I read it in two days. I had avoided it out of some ghastly English snobbery that really reveals my true nature."
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