George Clooney has hung up his Batsuit for good.
The actor revealed that it would take quite a lot for him to return as Batman after starring in the 1997 film “Batman & Robin.”
“I don’t think there’s enough drugs in the world for me to go back there,” Clooney, 62, smirked while chatting with “Entertainment Tonight” at the LA premiere for his latest film, “The Boys in the Boat.”
Clooney, who took over the role of Gotham’s darkest knight from Val Kilmer after the 1995 film “Batman Forever,” made a brief cameo as Bruce Wayne at the end of this year’s “The Flash” movie, starring Ezra Miller.
In the scene, Barry Allen (Miller) can be seen staring at a black town car as it gets swarmed by reporters.
A bodyguard is then seen cutting through the crowd before stepping aside and revealing Clooney dressed in a black suit and blue shirt while Allen asks, “Who the f–k is this?”
“There was such a clamor for me to come back as [Batman], as you know,” Clooney told “ET.”
“I actually said, ‘Where are my rubber nipples?’” the “Ocean’s Eleven” star joked, referring to his iconic costume that went up for auction last year. “And they were like, ‘Can we do it without the rubber nipples?’ I was like, ‘Well, it’s not really my Batman, is it?’”
The Hollywood hunk starred opposite Uma Thurman, Chris O’Donnell, Alicia Silverstone and Arnold Schwarzenegger in the flop.
In 2021, the actor claimed that he was the reason the film “f–ked up.”
“I did one superhero movie and I f–ked it up so bad they won’t let me near the set,” Clooney said during a Q&A session at the DGA Theater following a screening of his film “The Tender Bar,” which starred Ben Affleck.
Affleck has also played the Caped Crusader, starting in 2016.
“I don’t want to get into all the bat nipples,” Clooney noted, adding that it “physically hurts” him to watch the Joel Schumacher-directed project.
“My work, where my bread is buttered, is the kind of films that I grew up [with] in the ’60s and ’70s, which is sort of the prime time for American filmmaking, which were all story-based,” Clooney explained.
According to Amal Clooney, her husband “won’t let” her watch the movie.
“There are certain films I just go, ‘I want my wife to have some respect for me,’” the “Leatherheads” star explained to Variety. He also forbids their twins, Alexander and Ella, from putting it on.
“It’s bad when your 4-year-old kid goes, ‘This sucks.’ That could be painful,” Clooney admitted.
“The Boys in the Boat” will be released nationwide on Christmas Day.
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