HE is now one of Hollywood’s biggest stars, yet George Clooney says his disastrous 1997 movie Batman & Robin nearly ruined his career as people refused to work with him.
The 59-year-old heart-throb actor also says film industry types looked down on him because he spent years in TV drama ER. It was only when he and director Steven Soderbergh landed the 1998 crime comedy Out Of Sight that his fortune changed.
Speaking from his Los Angeles home, George told The Sun on Sunday: “Steven was coming off a couple of flops and I was coming off Batman & Robin and we both needed a success.
Our backs were against the wall, in a way. “I was still doing ER at the time and there were always these conversations about whether you can go from television to.
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