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"George Clooney has described Batman &amp;amp; Robin as &amp;quot;really s**t&amp;quot;. The ER actor, who played the Caped Crusader in Joel Schumacher&amp;#039;s 1997 superhero flop, told Total Film that he was so stunned to have landed the role that he failed to identify the project&amp;#039;s numerous issues.  &amp;quot;With hindsight it&amp;#039;s easy to look back at this and go, &amp;#039;Woah, that was really s**t and I was really bad in it&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;The truth is, my phone rang, and the head of Warner Bros said, &amp;#039;Come into my office, you are going to play Batman in a Batman film&amp;#039; and I said, &amp;#039;Yeah!&amp;#039; I called my friends and they screamed and I screamed and we couldn&amp;#039;t believe it! &amp;quot;I just thought the last one had been successful so I thought I was just going to be in a big successful franchise movie.&amp;quot; Watch George Clooney in the trailer for Batman &amp;amp; Robin below:      Despite being disappointed with Batman &amp;amp; Robin, Clooney did credit the film for establishing him as a Hollywood star.  &amp;quot;Batman is still the biggest break I ever had and it completely changed my career, even if it was weak and I was weak in it,&amp;quot; he said.  &amp;quot;It was a difficult film to be good in. I don&amp;#039;t know what I could have done differently. But if I am going to be Batman in the film Batman &amp;amp; Robin, I can&amp;#039;t say it didn&amp;#039;t work and then not take some of the blame for that.&amp;quot; The Batman franchise was rebooted by Christopher Nolan with 2005&amp;#039;s Batman Begins, which has been followed by The Dark Knight in 2008 and The Dark Knight Rises, currently shooting in the US.   &amp;gt; Clooney reveals Batman and Robin fears Watch the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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