“You know how cruel kids can be. Clooney’s first major role came in 1984 in the short-lived sitcom E/R (not to be confused with ER, the better-known hospital drama, on which Clooney also costarred a decade later). Clooney was then cast as Batman in Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin, which was a moderate box office success, but a critical failure (with Clooney himself calling the film “a waste of money”). After leaving ER, Clooney starred in commercially successful projects such as The Perfect Storm and O Brother, Where Art Thou.
