George Clooney says it "physically hurts" to watch his "terrible" Batman & Robin performance

That said, he doesn’t feel there’s much he, as an actor, could’ve done differently. “It’s a big machine, that thing,” he said (via The Hollywood Reporter), adding that he and co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger “never even saw each other.” This, sadly, punctures our fantasy of the pair workshopping “cold” puns on set. “It’s a big, monster machine,” he added, “and I just sort of jumped in and did what they said.”

Clooney’s happy to bring that all-encompassing “they” under the bus with him for the production’s failure. “The truth of the matter is, I was bad in it. Akiva Goldsman—who’s won the Oscar for writing since then—he wrote the screenplay. And it’s a terrible screenplay, he’ll tell you. I’m terrible in it, I’ll tell you. Joel Schumacher, who just passed away, directed it, and he’d say, ‘Yeah, it didn’t work.’ We all whiffed on that one.”

It’s true. As punishment, Clooney must now go watch Batman & Robin again. We, on the other hand, will be watching his new Netflix movie, The Midnight Sky.

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