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"Kiefer Sutherland has said that he turned down the chance to play Robin in Tim Burton&amp;#039;s first Batman movie. The 24 star revealed that he was approached to play the superhero sidekick, but rejected the opportunity because he didn&amp;#039;t realise Burton was about to make &amp;quot;the coolest movie ever&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d just finished Stand by Me and Young Guns about the time that Warner Bros were making the first Batman film with Michael Keaton and I got a call which asked me if I would be interested in playing Robin,&amp;quot; On the Box quotes Sutherland as saying. &amp;quot;I was like, &amp;#039;As in Robin with tights? No!&amp;#039; I didn&amp;#039;t realise they were going to make the coolest movie ever! They didn&amp;#039;t have a Robin in the end, but I was only 19 so my agent could have helped me out a bit on that one.&amp;quot; British actor Danny Dyer recently claimed that he auditioned to play Robin for the Joel Schumacher Batman movies. Sky1 will air Sutherland&amp;#039;s new series Touch in the UK. It premieres on Tuesday, March 20 at 8pm, while the show&amp;#039;s first season resumes on March 22 on Fox in the US. &amp;gt; More movies news Watch Sutherland give Digital Spy an update on the 24 movie below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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