Avengers: Infinity War’s most emotional scene was completely improvised

Paul Bettany, who plays Vision in the MCU, has revealed that one of the most emotional scenes in Avengers: Infinity War was improvised.

Infinity War was one half of the biggest movie debuts the Marvel Cinematic Universe has ever seen as it kicked off the end of Marvel’s Phase 3.

The movie focused on the Avengers’ final showdown with Thanos, the war lord hellbent on killing off half of Earth’s population, and acted as one emotional roller coaster as fans had to say goodbye to some of their favorite heroes.

Though there were a ton of emotional moments in the film, there was one scene that stood above the rest and Paul Bettany (Vision), who starred in the scene, recently revealed that it was completely improvised.

Paul Bettany reveals Vision’s Infinity War death scene was off the cuff

While chatting with Collider during MegaCon, Bettany, who has played the synthezoid Vision since Avengers: Age of Ultron, divulged that his emotional death scene in Infinity War was completely improvised.

“The Russo Brothers came up to us and said, ‘Hey, listen, can you just improvise this scene?’ And I go, ‘What? Improvise being a robot getting killed?’ I’ve got no frame of reference!” Bettany explained.

“Lizzie [Elizabeth Olsen] was just laughing at it, and we’re so relaxed with each other that… I don’t know how it would’ve worked other than that, because we both really trust each other and, somehow, we got to something that worked. ”

In the film, Vision made the decision that he had to die as an attempt to destroy the Mind Stone (one of the six Infinity Stones) that helped bring him to life in order to thwart Thanos from getting it and using it to snap away half of the population.

However, the only person who was powerful enough to destroy such a powerful stone was Wanda Maximoff (Olsen), who was also Vision’s love interest, so the entire scene of her essentially murdering him had a lot of emotional layers to it.

The plan ended up not working out as Thanos murdered Vision himself and took the Mind Stone anyways, but the lovers did reunite in a way months after the events in the film in their spin-off series WandaVision, which acted as Wanda’s exploration through the five stages of grief over losing Vision so brutally.