![]() “Whatever boyhood excitement I had was crushed by the reality of the Batsuit. It was a struggle for me to get a performance past the suit, and it was frustrating until I realised that my role in the film was just to show up and stand where I was told to.”īecause of this, it took away the enthusiasm Kilmer once had for playing the Dark Knight. “You also can’t hear anything and after a while people stop talking to you, it’s very isolating. “When you’re in it, you can barely move and people have to help you stand up and sit down,” Kilmer said according to The Guardian. In his Amazon Prime documentary, Val, Kilmer discusses what it was like playing Schumacher’s Batman. Many actors have shared how hard it is operating inside of the costume, but it was especially aggravating to Kilmer. ![]() One of the difficulties playing Batman in Forever came with was having to act in the bat-suit. ![]() Val Kilmer felt isolated in ‘Batman Forever’ because of his bat-suit “I mean, it’s so bad, it’s almost good,” Kilmer felt. His children didn’t stick around to finish the movie, leaving Kilmer to watch the rest of the film “like a chump.”Īfterward, Kilmer shared some not too kind words for the Schumacher sequel. In his memoir, Kilmer also shared how he tried to watch Batman Forever with his kids. The actor had several reservations about the movie, one of which was its quality. “With two franchises going- Batman and The Saint-I could start an artists’ community, write poetry and plays, and become the wild auteur I saw as my destiny.”īut later on, Kilmer didn’t look back at playing Batman with the same fondness. “I was buzzed about being Batman but hardly for artistic reasons,” Kilmer wrote in his memoir Val Kilmer: I’m Your Huckleberry (via Den of Geek)}. When the Alexander actor first landed the role, he admitted he was more than enthusiastic about portraying the caped crusader. Kilmer might be one of Forever’s biggest critics. Val Kilmer believed that ‘Batman Forever’ was ‘so bad, it was almost good’ Val Kilmer | Eric Robert/Getty Images But it was a sequel Kilmer didn’t want any part of, since playing Batman wasn’t the boyhood dream he thought it’d be. Although Forever wasn’t as lauded as other Batman films, it did well enough for the studio to warrant a sequel. The Batman mantle was passed on from Micheal Keaton to Val Kilmer for Batman Forever. ![]()
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