Interview with Entertainment Tonight - June, 1995 - video Dailymotion

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Chris O'Donnell interviewed by Entertainment Tonight about Batman Forever

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00:00Going up in the sky around the country on the 4th, but the fireworks are all indoors and up on the screen in Batman Forever.

00:06Bob Gowen discovered that this time out, the Caped Crusader gets a helping hand from the new kid on Batman's block.

00:24I need a name. Batboy, Nightwing. I don't know, what do you think? What's a good sidekick name?

00:29How about Dick Grayson college students?

00:32I just saved your life.

00:33Chris O'Donnell is the brash young superhero Robin in Batman Forever.

00:38Chris had a lot of action to do in the film, or at least pretend to do.

00:41It was funny because we kind of had Team Robin. I had about four or five different stunt guys.

00:45And, you know, they all specialized in, you know, someone was good at gymnastics, someone was good at traditional stunt work,

00:52someone was good at martial arts and the flying trapeze, and I just kind of did the movie star close-ups and stuff, you know.

00:58Who the hell are you?

01:00I'm Batman.

01:03The shoot was a particularly rough one for this boy wonder because he was studying for final exams while the movie was being made.

01:10I went to college, took night school during the fall semester.

01:14Did you really?

01:14Yeah, while we were doing this, so I didn't think it would be that big of a deal until we got to Christmas time,

01:19and all of a sudden my work schedule got very, very busy, and all of a sudden I had finals coming up,

01:25so I'm, you know, sitting in my trailer writing papers and in my Robin suit.

01:29That wasn't the best thing.

01:30That's a nice image.

01:31Really, you're taking finals, you're, are you, uh...

01:34I finished, I graduated.

01:36No kidding, congratulations, we're very proud of you.

01:38I look smarter.

01:39You do, you do, you've become kind of a renaissance man.

01:42You know, I'm still accepting graduation gifts, and...

01:44Are you really?

01:45And if they're interested, uh...

01:47Chris's biggest graduation gift is the rush of attention for Batman Forever.

01:51Are you seeing your life change, though?

01:53It's got to be palatable.

01:53It's been a little weird, yeah, lately, the last couple months,

01:56because all of a sudden I'm getting, uh, recognized by more and more people,

01:59and that's, uh, it's really a strange feeling.

02:01A good thing, or...

02:02No.

02:03It's not, huh?

02:03I don't like it, I mean, I don't like the attention that you get from, from that.

02:07Um, it's, it's, it's, it's all right.

02:10I mean, I, I'm happy to talk to people if they're, if, you know, when they're big fans

02:13and they have nice things to say, that's great, but when you, when you want to be alone

02:16and you're just trying to enjoy yourself, and all of a sudden you can't, you know, get away from it,

02:20that can be annoying.

02:22Sorry, Chris, but there is just going to be more and more of that in your future.

02:26Bob Gowen, Entertainment Tonight.

02:27You forgot the part where you kissed the girl.

02:32Thanks, Bob.

02:33You heard Chris O'Donnell say he graduated from college.

02:35It turns out he received his degree in marketing, so this should make him happy.

02:39A marketing man's dream come true, his very own action figure.

02:43You know, I thought your son Sean would like these, so I brought these in.

02:47We are definitely beyond Barney at our house, so this is it.

02:49But you know what, I heard that you and John Tesh had your own action figures.

02:52From many years ago.

02:54Where can I buy those?

02:55You can't buy them, luckily.

02:56Alright.

02:56You

Interview with Entertainment Tonight - June, 1995

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