Matt Damon Almost Starred as Robin in Two Different Batman Movies

The Odyssey prima Matt Damon has recounted a clip backmost successful the opening of his vocation wherever helium auditioned to play Robin successful not one, but 2 antithetic live-action Batman movie projects.

Speaking with big Josh Horowitz connected the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Damon archetypal discussed auditioning for the Robin relation during Tim Burton’s clip astatine the helm of the films.

“I retrieve that we didn’t person sides,” said Damon, referring to the abbreviated excerpts of scripts provided to actors to execute during auditions. “It wasn’t similar you’re speechmaking a country with Batman. It was truthful secretive that it was, like, you’re speechmaking this different country from immoderate different movie.”

Robin yet ne'er appeared successful either of the 2 Tim Burton Batman movies, but this archetypal audition really wasn’t Damon’s lone brushwood with The Boy Wonder.

“Then, consequent to that, successful ’93, I got screentested; I was 1 of the last 3 to play Robin successful the George Clooney [and] Joel Schumacher Batman,” continued Damon.

“I retrieve Chris O’Donnell already had the part, but they were haggling implicit money. So the workplace was flexing, basically, by flying successful 2 different radical to surface test, but they wanted Chris – but they conscionable wanted him for a price.”

Damon clarified helium knew O’Donnell astatine the time.

“I retrieve calling up and I was, like, ‘I’ll enactment for a 4th of what that dude’s moving for,’” helium laughed. “I was like, ‘I privation the job!’ Yeah, I flew successful and auditioned for Joel, but I deliberation they ever intended [the relation to O’Donnell]. I retrieve seeing Chris portion helium was making that – we were friends backmost past – and they ever intended to springiness it to Chris.”

While a relation successful a Batman movie ne'er eventuated for Damon, his collaborations with an esteemed Batman director, Christopher Nolan, support coming – from Interstellar to Oppenheimer, and connected to this year’s The Odyssey.

IGN’s reappraisal of The Odyssey called it a “must-watch cinematic experience.”

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