My Tourture Playing the Monk from Hell

Movie hunk Paul Bettany told last week how filming new film The Da Vinci Code left him bald, burned and unrecognisable from his passport picture. Paul, 34, plays albino monk Silas in the big-screen version of the novel. The role meant a huge physical transformation for the British star to give him a ghostly, pale appearance. Initially, they tried to dye his hair but that went wrong. "It hurt like a son of a bitch," said Paul when we met in Barcelona for the premiere of his latest thriller Firewall. [More]