On 28 June 2004, Bettany and 13 other actors were included in the 2004 invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. "Dogville" and "The Reckoning" were released in limited cinemas in 2004. In September of that year, Bettany made his leading-man debut in "Wimbledon", a romantic comedy with Kirsten Dunst. The film's cast would also introduce him to Jon Favreau, playing his manager, a relationship that would return when Favreau cast him as the voice of J.A.R.V.I.S. in "Iron Man". In mid-2005, Bettany filmed "Firewall" in Vancouver, Canada, a thriller also starring Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen, which reunited him with "Wimbledon" director Richard Loncraine. He spent the autumn of 2005 filming "The Da Vinci Code", based on Dan Brown's best-selling novel and starring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou and Ian McKellen. In the film, he played an Opus Dei monk named Silas.