‘I was stupid’: What Ray Liotta said about Tim Burton’s role as Batman

The announcement of Ray Liotta’s death on May 26, 2022 was as cruel as it was unexpected. Due to be filming in the Dominican Republic for his next movie, Dangerous Waters, he slept in a hotel room so he wouldn’t wake up. The actor, who had a very rich career, even if it did not always depend on his talent, was 67 years old.

In an interview published by the site strangely Deadline in Hollywood More than a year after the actor’s death, which Liotta gave at the time of the release of the movie Marriage Story, he was spending his career with the journalist. And especially regretting not being Tim Burton’s Batman.

Liotta explains that his agent asked him to speak with the screenwriter. “My agent called me and said, ‘Tim Burton wants to meet you. He’s doing a movie, Batman. There had never been a superhero movie then. It was almost the first one. I said, are you crazy? Batman?! I said, ‘No, that’s bullshit.’ But who was the fool? I. I was stupid because I didn’t know.”

In a very difficult pregnancy, Burton’s Batman looks at several candidates for the role of Bruce Wayne, including Charlie Sheen, who was ultimately deemed too young to play him; Pierce Brosnan, who admitted that despite an interview with Tim Burton, he could not take the character seriously, or Mel Gibson was forced to refuse to shoot Lethal Weapon 2.