Paul Bettany Rocks A White Wig For 'The Collaboration' Filming With Jeremy Pope

Paul Bettany looks quite a bit different on the set of his new movie, The Collaboration, on Monday (September 26) in Boston, Mass.

The 51-year-old actor worked with co-star, Jeremy Pope, as they star as Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat for the flick.

According to Deadline, Paul and Jeremy will star in both the movie and Broadway adaptations, after playing the characters in London’s West End.

The Collaboration is set in the summer of 1984, when longtime superstar Warhol and wunderkind Basquiat agreed to work together on what would become one of the most famous exhibitions in the modern art history.

“I’ve been a fan of both Warhol and Basquiat forever,” Paul said in a statement. “I fell in love with their collaboration together when I saw it mounted at the Whitney in NY. I was hesitant to play Andy at first, as I believed it was too difficult to get out from underneath his carefully crafted public persona, but when I read Anthony’s play it felt like a revelation.”

He continued, “The brilliant Kwame has been a dream to work with as has the ridiculously talented Jeremy Pope, who is luminous as Basquiat. I feel unbelievably honored to be involved with such extraordinarily talented people telling this important story of two of the greatest contemporary artists of all time.”

Check out 25+ pictures of Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope filming The Collaboration…