Paul Bettany hasn’t watched his breakthrough film “A Knight’s Tale” since it released in 2001 — and the reason why will tug at your heartstrings. Comic Con about the medieval action comedy, Bettany — who played poet Geoffrey Chaucer opposite Heath Ledger‘s squire-turned-knight William Thatcher — admitted he hasn’t watched it in over two decades. It was like another lifetime ago,” Bettany said of “A Knight’s Tale.” “And people do come up sometimes, people come up to me on the street and quote things at me, and I literally can’t remember. I can’t remember any of it.”After films like “A Knight’s Tale,” “Gangster No. In a 2021 interview with Vulture, Bettany spoke more about his experience working with Ledger on “A Knight’s Tale.”“I can tell you that he just had a light that shined off him.