The movie was just all over the map - it was silly and bombastic, and there are times where you got shots focused on just Batman’s ass. “To me, it was like a stage musical, but without the music, more than it was a Batman movie. I was at the screening, but I was thinking to myself, ‘This is not good,'” he said. “I don’t even know that I finished the film, to be honest. It was a bit obscene, so we took the nipples off.”Īnd Fernandez doesn’t consider himself a fan of the finished product anyways. “After I sculpted it though, everybody realized, maybe not. “They said, ‘If the guys have nipples, the girls should have nipples, too,'” Fernandez remembered. While the suits for Clooney’s Batman and O’Donnell’s Robin both featured the design, production passed on adding nipples to Alicia Silverstone’s Batgirl costume. I had no idea there was going to end up being all this buzz about it.” I didn’t want to do it, but he’s the boss, so we sharpened them, circled them and it all became kind of ridiculous.”įernandez added, “I don’t know exactly where my head was at back in the day, but that’s what I remember. They were also circled, both outer and inner - it was all made into a feature of the batsuit. “But for ‘Batman & Robin’, Joel Schumacher loved the nipples, so he said, ‘Let’s showcase them,'” Fernandez continued, “Schumacher wanted them sharpened, like, with points.
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