“Holy rubber nipples, Batman!” George Clooney – the most lambasted of all the actors to play the Dark Knight over the years – advised Ben Affleck against taking the Batman role back in 2015.
Clooney played Batman in Joel Schumacher’s 1997 take on the DC Comics hero, Batman and Robin. And let’s put it nicely and say that the film wasn’t well received, by either the critics or the fans.
Speaking to Howard Stern on his radio show, Clooney said that he had warned Affleck about taking on the role.
“I’ve been a big flop and I’ve bombed in things. And, I’ve had big successes and it doesn’t mean that they listened,” he said. “Ben didn’t listen to me and he ended up doing a great job and I was wrong. But, I can only impart my wisdom from my experience.”
“I just said don’t have nipples on the suit.
Clooney continued discussing his time playing the hero, saying it was ultimately a very negative experience: “I couldn’t have done that one differently, you know? It’s a big machine, that thing.”
“You got to remember at that point I was just an actor getting an acting job. I wasn’t the guy that could greenlight a movie. They paid Arnold 25 million dollars to be in it. They paid me like one, and we never even worked together. We never saw each other. It’s a big monster machine, and I just sort of jumped in and did what they said. The truth of the matter is, I was bad in it.”
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