GEORGE CLOONEY ADVISED BEN AFFLECK TO NOT TAKE UP BATMAN ROLE

Hollywood star George Clooney knows a thing or two about the perils of taking on a fan-favourite role, which is why he suggested his good friend Ben Affleck to turn down the offer to play Batman on screen.

The 58-year-old actor famously took up the role for 1997’s Batman & Robin but he failed to deliver on the expectations of fans with the film proving to be a major failure. Recalling his experience on a TV show, he said, “[Arnold] Schwarzenegger was paid, I think, $25 million for

that, which was like 20 times more than I was paid for it, and, you know, we never even worked together! We worked together one day. But I took all the heat.”

The actor said when he was working with Affleck on their 2012 Oscar-winning film Argo, he advised him to decline the offer to play Batman in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. “I actually did talk to him about it. I said, ‘Don’t do it’. It was only from my experience, which is, you know...” Clooney said. The actor, however, believes Affleck did a “great” job with the part. PTI