Paul Bettany Calls Avengers: Age of Ultron ‘The Biggest Thing Marvel’s Ever Done’

Paul Bettany perhaps has the strangest journey of any of the Marvel Studios actors, beginning as just a voice of Tony Stark’s (Robert Downey Jr.) J.A.R.V.I.S. He’ll transition into a full physical hero this summer in Avengers: Age of Ultron as The Vision. Speaking with Radio Times, Bettany had high praise for the upcoming sequel.

“I’ve never been on a bigger set on my entire life than in The Avengers (Age of Ultron),” the actor says. “One [part] seemed to be the corner of a town, with helicopter cameras, and drone cameras flying about. I just haven’t seen anything that big, so it was like being a kid on a film set again…This is the biggest thing Marvel have ever done. It was enormous. I remember, we were at Comic-con, and they showed a portion of the footage, and I was just gobsmacked. And I looked down the row and every one of the Avengers was the same. Including Samuel Jackson – and his whole modus operandi is ‘I’ve seen everything before, I’m the most chilled out, relaxed man and I’ve seen everything…’and he was as knocked out as anyone. It’s huge.”

In other Avengers news, fan-favorite toy makers Funko have debuted official images of their Pop! Vinyls, Mystery Minis, Pop! Keychains, Fabrikations, and Bobble-heads for Avengers: Age of Ultron which you can check out in the gallery viewer below.

Avengers: Age of Ultron stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Samuel L. Jackson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, James Spader, Cobie Smulders, Thomas Kretschmann, Paul Bettany and Stellan Skarsgard. The Joss Whedon-directed film will debut in theaters on May 1, 2015.