George Clooney doesn’t want to don the bat suit with the rubber nipples again. Of course, we kind of know this, as Clooney has been self-deprecatingly dissing his own performance in “Batman and Robin” and the movie itself, seemingly ever since it came out in 1997.
But obviously, as fans know by now, Clooney did briefly reprise the role at the end of Andy Muschietti’s “The Flash” film that came out earlier this year (and bombed hard), appearing as Bruce Wayne in what was a different dimension than Ezra Miller’s Flash was familiar with.
That DC Universe is essentially over, but did the cameo mean he might suit up again one day? Hell no.
“I don’t think there are enough drugs in the world for me to go back again,” Clooney told Entertainment Tonight during the red carpet premiere of his new directorial effort, the sports drama “The Boys In The Boat” (read our review here).
Clooney sarcastically quipped he only took the brief cameo gig because fans were dying to see him return in the role.
“I thought there was such a clamor for me to come back as Batman, as you know. There was a clamor,” Clooney said, dissing the movie yet again, seemingly despised by critics and fans at the time. “I actually said, ‘Where are my rubber nipples?’ And they were like, ‘Can we do it without the rubber nipples?’ I was like, ‘Well, it’s not really my Batman, is it?’”
While some fans took that cameo seriously and speculated that he could return in the future, Clooney said nah, “It was a bit, it was supposed to be funny.”
On a recent Jimmy Kimmel appearance, Clooney couldn’t help but rip into his Batman appearance yet again.
“My son is in love with Batman. Right? He’s in love with Batman. That’s all he talks about is Batman,” Clooney explained. “And I’m like, ‘You know I was Batman? And he’s like, ‘Yeah, not anymore.’ He has no idea how right he is.”
“How do you tell your 6-year-old son that Batman had nipples?” Clooney said as the audience erupted into laughter. OK, well, that’s enough of that, and we have our answers, so let’s move on, shall we?