George Clooney's Batman advice to Ben Affleck: 'Don't do it'
From one Batman to another, George Clooney offered some pretty simple but memorable advice to Ben Affleck: “Don’t do it.”
While speaking with
The Hollywood Reporter’s
Awards Chatter podcast, the actor behind Bruce Wayne in 1997’s
Batman & Robin revealed he did give some words of wisdom to Affleck when the two worked together on
Argo before Affleck would take on The Dark Knight in
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. (Clooney was a producer on
Argo.)
“I actually did talk to him about it. I said, ‘Don’t do it.’” Clooney said. “It was only from my experience, which is, you know… He did great, though.”
The two-time Oscar winner was speaking from his own experience in
Batman & Robin, which starred Chris O’Donnell as Robin, Alicia Silverstone as Batgirl, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, and Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy.
“Schwarzenegger was paid, I think, $25 million for that, which was like 20 times more than I was paid for it, and, you know, we never even worked together,” Clooney recalled. “We worked together one day. But I took all the heat. Now, fair deal; I was playing Batman and I wasn’t good in it, and it wasn’t a good film, but what I learned from that failure was, I had to rethink how I was working. Because now I wasn’t just an actor getting a role, I was being held responsible for the film itself.”
via
EW