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How did a silly rumor like this even start? My guess is it’s a classic case of “Internet Telephone.” Someone saw his eyes looking a bit off in one movie still, posted a silly theory, and BAM—it became a “fact” on a random trivia website. Add in that Giamatti often plays intense, slightly tortured characters, and people started spinning wild yarns.

There’s even a joke that he lost an eye in a fierce fight with a corkscrew while filming Sideways. Spoiler: that didn’t happen. He loves wine, but not that much. Glass eyes don’t cry, and Giamatti has made a career out of crying, yelling, and looking deeply panicked—all with real, wet, organic tears.

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For the record, he also doesn’t have a secret twin, he wasn’t raised by wolves, and his voice isn’t the result of a weird surgery. Paul Giamatti is just a classically trained actor from Yale who happens to have a wonderfully weird face. His dad was a baseball commissioner, not an eye-patch-wearing pirate, so the glass eye thing really doesn’t fit the family lore.

And if you’re still not convinced, think about this: He’s won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar. Do you think he could convey the soul-crushing despair of a wine snob or the comic rage of a comic book villain if one of his peepers was made of painted ceramic? No way. His eyes are the windows to his seriously talented soul.