Paul Bettany couldn’t believe what his Vision trading card sells for: “People are crazy”
Paul Bettany was floored to learn what his priciest Vision trading card goes for, telling Topps 'People are crazy' — and you’ll want the number.
Here's one for the collectors out there. Paul Bettany—the man behind Vision in the MCU—nearly fell off his chair after learning just how much a trading card with his face on is worth. Classic bit of memorabilia trivia that properly caught him off guard, and his reaction did make me chuckle.
Paul Bettany was left properly gobsmacked and blurted out 'People are crazy,' when he finally clocked how much his rare Vision trading card will set you back: a cool $6,723.
The Trading Card Shock
Bettany was doing a bit with Topps, the trading card company, when they challenged him to guess the price of the priciest card featuring his Marvel character. At first, he looked genuinely baffled. He tried to suggest maybe his Star Wars baddie Dryden Vos was the big ticket, but that one was well wide of the mark. Turns out—no surprise really—Vision's the moneymaker here.
He guessed low to start with, something like $150. The interviewer teased him, explaining it was 'four figures,' and poor Bettany looked like he thought someone was taking the mickey. He threw out $2,000, then $3,000—each time, he was told to go higher. Bettany then leapt straight to $6,000, and finally $6,500, but the actual number was even more specific: $6,723.
Vision's rarest Topps trading card fetched a staggering $6,723 on the collectors' market.
Bettany and the MCU
Honestly, out of all the roles Bettany's taken on—A Beautiful Mind, Master and Commander, The Da Vinci Code, Solo—it's Vision that gets him this kind of headline. Before he was zipping about in a cape, he kicked things off in the MCU as the very British voice of J.A.R.V.I.S., Iron Man's original digital butler. After a few voice roles, he got his on-screen moment as Vision in Age of Ultron, then stuck around for Civil War and Infinity War.
Then of course, there was the whole WandaVision business—proper telly event, that one. And he returned yet again in VisionQuest, which is the latest place you'll find Bettany's Vision musing about humanity and probably feeling a bit confused again. That series is now streaming on Disney+, for anyone wanting to remind themselves why folk are willing to part with nearly seven grand for a shiny bit of cardboard with his likeness on.