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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bettany-my-kings-speech-regrets.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Paul Bettany turned down a role in The King's Speech" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-bettany-my-kings-speech-regrets.jpg" alt="Paul Bettany turned down a role in The King's Speech"/></a></p>
<p>Paul Bettany has admitted to some regrets about passing up the lead role in The King&#8217;s Speech.</p>
<p>Family commitments meant the English actor had to turn down the part of King George VI, for which Colin Firth has since received a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination.</p>
<p>&#8220;Number one, of course, it is a regret not to be working with such great, and really great people, Geoffrey Rush and (director) Tom Hooper,&#8221; Paul said.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it is a little inelegant for me to discuss it&#8230; I had been working for five months steadily and my son missed me and I missed my son. Both of my sons and my wife,&#8221; he added, referring to his work on The Tourist as Inspector John Acheson.</p>
<p>Screenwriter David Seidler has revealed he wrote The King&#8217;s Speech &#8211; up for 12 Oscars &#8211; with Paul in mind to play the stammering monarch, and Geoffrey as his speech therapist.</p>
<p>Speaking at the Sundance Film Festival Paul, who is married to actress Jennifer Connelly, insisted his wife and two kids always came first.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I regret not working with such amazing, amazing actors and directors and writers. But no, I have to do the right thing by my family every time.&#8221;</p>
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