{"id":23640,"date":"2019-05-14T08:07:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1041246"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:07:54","slug":"george-clooney-told-ben-affleck-not-to-play-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/george-clooney-told-ben-affleck-not-to-play-batman\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney Told Ben Affleck Not to Play Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Don’t do it. <\/p>\n

Such was the warning George Clooney<\/a><\/strong> issued to his former co-star Ben Affleck<\/a><\/strong>when the opportunity to play Batman came along. As the Catch-22<\/em> star revealed on The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>‘s Awards Chatter<\/em> podcast, he had learned his own big lesson from his experience playing one of the titular characters in 1997’s Batman & Robin<\/em>. <\/p>\n

At that point in his career, Clooney’s clout was changing. “After a few films and after the show\u2014what you don’t understand is now they’re using you\u2026to greenlight films, so you have to think differently than just an actor.”<\/p>\n

He felt the impact of this when Batman & Robin<\/em> flopped. <\/p>\n

“[Arnold<\/strong>] Schwarzenegger<\/strong> was paid, I think he was paid $25 million for that, which was like 20 times more than I was paid for it, and, you know, we never even worked together! We worked together for one day. But I took all the heat,” Clooney said on the podcast. “Now, fair deal\u2014I 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 that 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.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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He continued, “The next three films I did\u2026that was a very specific choice for me to find better projects and work on better projects.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Later on in his career, he crossed paths with Ben Affleck<\/strong>, who would play the same role in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/em> and the sequel, Justice League<\/em>. The two worked together as producers on the critically acclaimed Argo <\/em>in 2012, just a few years before Dawn of Justice<\/em>. <\/p>\n

“I actually did talk to him about [Batman]. I said, ‘Don’t do it,'” Clooney shared on the podcast. “It was only from my experience, which is that, you know\u2026” <\/p>\n

Dawn of Justice<\/em> was panned by critics and Affleck was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards for the film, including one for Worst Actor. The sequel was a box office flop met with more bad reviews. In January, it was reported<\/a> Affleck will not return for the upcoming Batman film as it will center around a younger Bruce Wayne. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Warner Bros. Pictures\/Sunset Boulevard\/Corbis via Getty Images “Don’t do it.  Such was the warning George Clooney issued to his former co-star Ben Affleckwhen the opportunity to play Batman came along. As the Catch-22 star revealed on The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, he had learned his own big lesson from his experience playing one of the titular characters in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 00:17:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}