Ray Liotta 'felt stupid' for turning down Batman
https://www.joblo.com/batman-ray-liotta/
Last year, we lost Goodfellas star Ray Liotta, who passed away in his sleep at the age of 67. Now Deadline has shared a previously unreleased interview they conducted with Liotta a couple years before he died – and during the interview, Liotta mentioned that he felt stupid for turning down a role in director Tim Burton‘s 1989 version of Batman.
When asked how he missed out on being in a superhero movie when his star was first rising, Liotta answered, “Because I was an idiot. … Something Wild came out, so I was getting attention from that. My agent called me up and said, ‘Tim Burton would like to meet you. He’s doing a movie, Batman.’ There were never any superhero movies then. That was pretty much the first one. I said, ‘Are you f*cking nuts? Batman?!’ I’m going, ‘No, that’s stupid.’ Who was stupid? I was stupid because I didn’t know.“
Strange as I thought Michael Keaton was Burtons 'number 1 guy' for the role , why would he be approaching others like Ray, and Pierce Brosnan (who also said he was approached for the role by Burton but like Ray turned it down bc it was batman) unless Burton was interested in him for Harvey Dent? (not necessarily bruce wayne/batman?) share