George Clooney: 'I didn't know they'd give Batman nipples'

Published Feb 1 2012, 11:33 GMT  |  By Mayer Nissim

George Clooney has said he did not know at first that his infamous Batman outfit would have moulded nipples.

The actor, who played the superhero in Joel Schumacher's critically derided 1997 sequel Batman & Robin, told Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio that the role "did not go well".



"They put nipples on the batsuit. I didn't know they would do that," he said.

Clooney added: "If Batman had to wear the suit that you have to wear, everyone would die.

"You're laying on a board like this and you can't move and they just prop you up and you're like, 'I'm Batman'."

Of working under Schumacher, Clooney quipped: "Joel was very funny, because he'd be like, 'Okay George, remember. Your parents are dead, you have nothing to live for. And action!'"

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Clooney has previously said that Batman & Robin "was really s**t and I was really bad in it", while also insisting that he had no regrets about accepting the role.

He later welcomed the darker reboot of the series with Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.

Clooney has admitted that he still has nightmares about the film and feared that the flop role could have ended his chances of starring in future blockbusters.

Marvel Studios has suggested that Batman & Robin was vital in the history of comic book movies because it was "so bad that it demanded a new way of doing things".

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Watch George Clooney joke about his Batman shame below: