Uneasy lies the head that wears the Batman cowl. While Christian Bale and Micheal Keaton came out of the experience of playing the Dark Knight relatively unscathed, other actors, from Adam West to George Clooney, to Ben Affleck have struggled due to their time spent portraying the Caped Crusader. In a new interview, Clooney explained that the terrible reception to his movie Batman & Robin, while hurtful, led him to a better career as an actor by forcing him to focus on doing films with good scripts.
"I'd gotten killed for doing Batman & Robin and I understood for the first time - because quite honestly when I got Batman & Robin I was just an actor getting an acting job and I was excited to play Batman - what I realized after that was that I was going to be held responsible for the movie itself not just my...
"I'd gotten killed for doing Batman & Robin and I understood for the first time - because quite honestly when I got Batman & Robin I was just an actor getting an acting job and I was excited to play Batman - what I realized after that was that I was going to be held responsible for the movie itself not just my...
- 1/17/2021
- by Neeraj Chand
- MovieWeb
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