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George Clooney showed up as Bruce Wayne in the final moments of The Flash, but that doesn't mean he's interested in playing Batman again. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight while promoting his latest directorial effort, The Boys in the Boat, Clooney said the chances of him playing Batman again were slim to none.
“I don’t think there’s enough drugs in the world to go back,” Clooney said bluntly.
Why did he even decide to return as Bruce Wayne in The Flash? “As you know, I thought there was so much desire for me to come back as Batman. There was a shouting match,” Clooney joked sarcastically. “I actually said, 'Where are my rubber nipples?' And they said, 'Can we do this without the rubber nipples?' I thought, 'Well, it's not really my Batman, is it?'”
Clooney played the lead role of the iconic superhero in the infamous 1997 sequel Batman & Robin, which he has openly mocked over the years. The famous actor once said in an interview: “It was a difficult film to be good at. In hindsight, it's easy to look back on it and think, 'Woah, that really sucked and I was really bad at it.'”
In a Variety interview in 2021, Clooney joked that Batman & Robin was so bad that it “destroyed” the superhero franchise. He added that he refused to let his wife even watch the film because it was so terrible, adding: “There are certain films where I just say, 'I want my wife to have some respect.' has in front of me.'”
“The Boys in the Boat” hits theaters on December 25th from MGM and Amazon. Watch Clooney's full interview with Entertainment Tonight in the video below.
