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The first iteration of the Batman movies, not counting Batman ’66, are a weird bunch. Batman ’89 has aged terribly. Batman Returns is now finally understood as some kind of cry for help from Tim Burton, buried in a fever dream. Batman Forever feels like two different movies stitched together like a car after a wreck, and nobody is quite sure what the hell was going on with Batman and Robin.
Batman and Robin was the movie that made the studios realise that they really needed to do something about those pesky internet fans, and it ushered in the age of “Pwesents” to stop it from happening ever again.
It also killed the franchise for nearly a decade, before Christopher Nolan gave us what is still, arguably, the definitive screen Batman.
Despite this, these early movies seem to occupy some place full of fondness in many hearts. Well, maybe the first two, despite their now-obvious shortcomings.
George Clooney played Bruce Wayne in the infamous film, alongside Chris O’Donnell as Robin, Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze.
In a new career retrospective video for Variety, he was asked about the role and, clearly taking the piss, he bagged himself the honor of best on-screen version of the character:
“I was the best Batman, and you know it, and I know it. And I don’t want to hear any more s—. Batman has nipples, dude. How do you think he feeds the children? The little bats.
It was a very painful suit, and you couldn’t move. I would be laying on a board, and Joel Schumacher would direct you with a microphone with a giant speaker, and he would go: ‘Okay, George, and here we go. And ready, and your parents are dead. You have nothing to live for. And action.’
And then they’d just prop me up, and I go, ‘I’m Batman.’ And they go, ‘And cut!’ And they drop me back down, and they carry me out on a board.”
Clooney has never been shy about mocking the effort and his part in it. He most recently reprised the role in a very short cameo at the end of The Flash.
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