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George Clooney Won’t Let Amal Watch His ‘Batman and Robin’ Movie

Don’t get your hopes up, because George Clooney won’t be reprising his role as Batman in the upcoming The Flash movie like Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton will be. In…

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Don't get your hopes up, because George Clooney won't be reprising his role as Batman in the upcoming The Flash movie like Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton will be.

In fact, Clooney, 60, said he's destroyed the franchise so bad, “usually they look the other way when The Flash comes by.” In a recent interview with Variety, Clooney revealed, "They didn’t ask me,” during a screening of The Tender Bar, a coming-of-age drama he directed that stars Affleck, Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan.

Clooney played Batman in Joel Schumacher’s infamous 1997 film Batman & Robin opposite Chris O’Donnell and Alicia Silverstone.

“He won’t let me watch it,” Clooney’s wife Amal told the outlet. George added, “There are certain films I just go, ‘I want my wife to have some respect for me.’”

When Amal commented that their twins Alexander and Ella will want to see it, George cracked, “It’s bad when your four-year-old kid goes, ‘This sucks.’ That could be painful.”

The Tender Bar marks Clooney and Affleck's reunion after they teamed up to produce 2012's Argo, the political thriller that went on to win three Oscars, including best picture. Clooney joked that it took nine years for them to make another movie together because Affleck “screwed up the Batman franchise that I made so solid.”

The Tender Bar is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer’s memoir of the same name about his relationship with his Uncle Charlie (Affleck), who became a father figure to him while growing up on Long Island. Rabe plays his mother while Christopher Lloyd is his grandfather.

“It was a really beautiful script and Ben came on board really early on so we just thought we’d have a blast,” Clooney said.

Sheridan said this was his first time working with a director who was also an actor saying, “The dynamic changes suddenly. It’s not a director talking to an actor — it is — but it’s also an actor talking to an actor.”

The Tender Bar will be released in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on December 17, followed by a nationwide rollout on December 22.

Laila Abuelhawa is the Top 40 and Hip-Hop pop culture writer for Beasley Media Group. Being with the company for over three years, Laila's fierce and fabulous red-carpet rankings have earned her a feature on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert!' Her favorite stories are those surrounding the latest in celebrity fashion, television and film rankings, and how the world reacts to major celebrity news. With a background in journalism, Laila's stories ensure accuracy and offer background information on stars that you wouldn't have otherwise known. She prides herself in covering stories that inform the public about what is currently happening and what is to come in the ever-changing, ever-evolving media landscape.