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Batman doesn't fight crime alone. In the third instalment, Batman Forever, he was joined by an orphaned circus acrobat named Dick Grayson. Grayson squeezed into his own version of the Bat suit and called himself Robin. In Batman & Robin, Chris O'Donnell was back for his second stint as the crime-fighter. "I told (director) Joel Schumacher I'd come back as long as he'd nix the earring. That was the only part of Robin's look I couldn't stand," admits O'Donnell. "Robin's no longer satisfied to live in Batman's shadow. He's getting a little anxious. He wants to know why this new movie can't be called Robin & Batman." |
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O'Donnell says he was sorry when he heard Kilmer had decided not to return for this film, but admits he got along much better with Kilmer's replacement. "George and I have more in common. Val is a pretty intense guy. He likes to keep to himself. George is gregarious. He likes to shoot baskets and joke around. He's like a big brother.'' O'Donnell could have been competing with himself in summer '97 if he'd decided to play a mysterious G-man in the sci-fi comedy Men In Black, that was also released at the time. "I didn't think I should play another superhero," says O'Donnell. The role went to Will Smith. For O'Donnell, being Batman's sidekick wasn't without scary moments. "They've always got some new ridiculous harness they're throwing you into," O'Donnell said in the June 20 issue of Entertainment Weekly. "You come to the set and some stunt guy's been hanging up on the ceiling for 10 minutes, looking like his head's about to explode, and they say, 'Okay, Chris, this is what you're going to do.' And I'm like, 'No, no, no no!"' |
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