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Tim Burtonhas choice words about Batman’s costume gaining nipples after his departure from directing the franchise.
Burton said he fielded complaints about his tone being “too dark” for the Caped Crusader movies. “[Back then] they went the other way. That’s the funny thing about it. But then I was like, ‘Wait a minute. Okay. Hold on a second here. You complain about me, I’m too weird, I’m too dark, and then you put nipples on the costume? Go f— yourself.’ "
“Seriously,” he added. “So yeah, I think that’s why I didn’t end up [doing a third film]….”
The director, whose next project is the Netflix series spinoff ofThe Addams FamilytitledWednesday, explained of his style, “I’m not just overly dark. That represents me in the sense that … that’s how I see things. It’s not meant as pure darkness. There’s a mixture.”
George Clooney’s Batman costume also had visible nipples in 1997’sBatman & Robin. Jose Fernandez, the costume designer on the films who was responsible for the nipples idea, recently recalled the decision in an interview withMELMagazine.
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Fernandez said the nipples were “subtle” in the Kilmer movie but director Schumacher, who died in 2020, “loved the nipples” and wanted to “showcase them” in the Clooney sequel.
About the decision not to have Alicia Silverstone’s Batgirl costume also have nipples like Clooney and Chris O’Donnell’s Robin, the costumer said, “They wanted nipples on her too. They said, ‘If the guys have nipples, the girls should have nipples too.’ After I sculpted it though, everybody realized maybe not. It was a bit obscene, so we took the nipples off.”
source: people.com
