George Clooney won’t be putting his superhero suit back on anytime soon.
The actor recently told “Entertainment Tonight” that there aren’t “enough drugs in the world” to get him to reprise his role as Batman.
The Oscar winner first played the iconic character in 1997’s “Batman & Robin” movie alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Uma Thurman.
Clooney, 62, returned to the role earlier this year when he made a cameo in “The Flash.” (Michael Keaton, who played the comic book staple in “Batman” in 1989, was also featured in the June movie.)
While Clooney wanted to sport the same suit he wore before, which is infamous for its rubber nipples, the filmmaker went without in his brief appearance.
“They were like, ‘Can we do it without the rubber nipples? I was like, ‘Well, it’s not really my Batman, is it?’” he joked to the outlet.
The Golden Globe winner has poked fun at the project before, telling Deadline in 2013 that it acts as “a cautionary reminder of what can happen when you make movies solely for commercial reasons.”
He admitted on the Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast six years later that “Batman & Robin” was “not a good film.”
In fact, Clooney called the film a “failure” in 2019 and said it taught him a lesson.
“I had to rethink how I was working [after that],” he explained. “Because now I wasn’t just an actor getting a role, I was being held responsible for the film itself.”
Ben Affleck has since taken on the role, with Clooney previously encouraging the “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” star not to follow in his footsteps.
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“I actually did talk to him about it. I said, ‘Don’t do it,’” Clooney revealed to Howard Stern in 2020. “It was only from my experience.”
However, Clooney thought that Affleck, 51, did a “great” job.
Robert Pattinson most recently played the superhero, acting in “The Batman” with Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman.
The “Twilight” star, 37, wore Clooney’s Batsuit during his screen test and snuck a selfie before taking off the costume.
Source: NewsFinale
