Alicia Silverstone, who played Batgirl in Batman and Robin, revealed how the experience in Joel Schumacher’s film helped her “save” her career
One of the most remembered feature films of the 90s is Batman & Robin, a film in which Batgirl debuted on the big screen, and the person in charge of playing the bat girl was Alicia Silverstone.
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The film did not have the best of luck with the critics and among the fans, who were not satisfied with the performance of Silverstone, who before arriving at the Joel Schumacher film starred in the film Clueless, as well as several videos of the band Aerosmith .
Despite the fact that Batman and Robin was a controversial feature film, Alicia Silverstone recalls in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter what it was like to work with George Clooney, the film’s protagonist, as well as with Michael Gough, who played Alfred in four films.
“Working with Michael Gough was magical. We had a very special bond. And George Clooney was such a nice big brother to me.”.
Batgirl saved Alicia Silverstone
The change in the story of Barbara Gordon as Alfred’s niece, added to the criticism for the kilos that Alicia Silverstone gained during the filming of the film, were some of the reasons why the actress began to move away from the big Hollywood projects.
After Batman & Robin, Silverstone starred in two more comedy films, Excess Baggage and Blast from the Past, but his name began to sound less in the industry.
Far from depressing this detail to the native of San Francisco, this began to bring her closer to one of her greatest passions, activism for wildlife and the environment.
“I wasn’t happy and what I did was I really stepped away from my acting career a little bit and got more into my activism.”.
Her fight for animal rights and environmental conservation led Alicia Silverstone to travel the world to find herself.
“I went to Africa. to help the elephants, i went to peru to try to help the rainforest. I found my passion for writing books on healing and health. The Kind Diet books came a bit later, but that was the beginning of the journey there.”.
Currently Alicia Silverstone combines her passion for activism with her acting career and her role as a mother, after in 2011 she had her first child with Christopher Jarecki, to whom she was married between 2005 and 2018.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
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