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Fri 09 Sep 2009Natural selection
The son of two actors, Paul Bettany is living proof of Darwin’s theory of evolution. The ever- affable Londoner tells DONALD CLARKEabout playing the pioneering scientist, keeping it in the family – his wife Jennifer Connelly plays Mrs Darwin – and why he’s happiest with a machine gun in his hands
GIVEN THE recent efforts by evangelical slope-brows to portray Charles Darwin as a combination of Adolf Hitler and the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, it was, perhaps, important that the makers of Creation find a likeable fellow to play the old naturalist.
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