Go count how many times I put my hands on my hips. "I tried to be like an actor on a soap opera. It was just so huge I think it made no difference what I was doing," Kilmer admitted. He said fellow Batman Forever actors Tommy Lee Jones, who played Two-Face, and Jim Carrey, who portrayed The Riddler, managed to deliver huge performances in their villainous roles. Kilmer elaborated further on his performance and likened playing Batman to acting in a soap opera, though he indicated that his co-stars were not as restricted by their costumes. It was a struggle for me to get a performance past the suit, and it was frustrating until I realized that my role in the film was just to show up and stand where I was told to." "You also can't hear anything and after a while people stop talking to you, it's very isolating. A request that Jose found quite contrary, but to which he could not exclude himself."When you're in it, you can barely move and people have to help you stand up and sit down," he added. The scenario then changed with the last film directed by Shumacher where, according to him, the director asked him to accentuate everything for the costumes of George Clooney and Chris O’Donnell, making nipples pointed and with well-sprung haloes. In the comics the characters always seem naked, so I wanted to focus on anatomy, but I did not imagine what would happen then what happened “. “When I worked on the costume of Val Kilmer in Batman Forever I decided to take inspiration from the breastplates of the Roman centurions, drawing nipples but without accentuating them in a conspicuous way. The choice of the Bat-nipples had been made without any malice not imagining that the uproar would be unleashed: After working on the costumes for Batman Returns by Tim Burton e Batman Forever, Jose has been hired again to work with Shumacher. Jose Fernandez, the film’s costume designer, explained itin a recent interview with Mel’s microphones Magazine.
The costume designer of the film explains the choice of the Bat-nipples Among the many reasons there is undoubtedly the choice of Bat-nipplesan element that made many turn up their noses and which, apparently, was initially a simple choice of costume. 25 years after its theatrical release, Batman & Robin by Joel Shumacher still remains today one of the most controversial and discussed films related to the Dark Knight franchise.