Schumacher stated, 'I had no idea that putting nipples on the Batsuit and Robin suit were going to spark international headlines. The bodies of the suits come from ancient Greek statues, which display perfect bodies. They are anatomically correct.' Ĭhris O'Donnell, who portrayed Robin, felt 'it wasn't so much the nipples that bothered me.
The press obviously played it up and made it a big deal, especially with Joel directing. I didn't think twice about the controversy, but going back and looking and seeing some of the pictures, it was very unusual.' George Clooney joked, 'Joel Schumacher told me we never made another Batman film because Batman was gay.' In 2006, Clooney said in an interview with Barbara Walters that in Batman & Robin he played Batman as gay.
I could have played Batman straight, but I made him gay.' Walters then asked, 'George, is Batman gay?' To which he responded, 'No, but I made him gay.' Animation 'I was in a rubber suit and I had rubber nipples. The direct-to-video DC animated movie Batman and Harley Quinn alludes to both the notion of a homosexual relationship between Batman and Robin, and to Seduction of the Innocent, when Harley Quinn addresses Nightwing about that topic with the words: 'It’s funny.