Ray Liotta turned down ‘Batman’ meeting with Tim Burton: 'I was an idiot'
foxnews.comRay Liotta played many roles throughout his career before his death last year at age 67, but there’s one even he’s surprised he didn’t take on.
In a newly released interview with Deadline, completed in 2019 around the time he appeared in "Marriage Story," Liotta revealed he turned down a meeting with Tim Burton for a role in 1989’s "Batman." "I’ve been able to hang on to keep doing these movies because it’s been hard for me in my head to go, ‘Now let me be the bad guy in a comic book movie,'" Liotta said of his later career roles.
When asked why he never appeared in a superhero movie, he replied, "Because I was an idiot." He said after his breakout role in "Something Wild" with Melanie Griffith and Jeff Daniels, "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---ing nuts?
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