Holy shrinkage, Batman! There’s method acting, and then there’s… whatever this is.
Burt Ward, who played Robin in the camptastic Batman series which ran on ABC from 1966-1968, has waited over five decades to reveal just how far he was asked to go for the part.
The famously-tight fitting costumes were apparently too tight in the lower regions, so much so that the Catholic League of Decency filed a complaint with ABC.
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And rather than take the costume out, the studio took Ward in.
“They thought that Robin had a very large bulge for television,” Ward told Page Six.
“With Adam they put Turkish towels in his undershorts,” he added, before explaining that he was sent to a doctor who prescribed pills “to shrink me up.”
Ward nixed the plan almost immediately.
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“I took them for three days and then I decided that they can probably keep me from having children,” he said. “I stopped doing that and I just used my cape to cover it.”
That sounds like an excellent call.
Last week, Ward unveiled a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame which he called an “amazing experience.”
Here’s Ward’s 1965 audition for Robin:
shannestad
I am so old, he was my first TV crush, followed closely but harder by Robert Conrad
xanderbear
You are not alone! Robert Conrad was the cats pajamas!
trsxyz123
OMG…Yes Robert Conrad. I didn’t know I was gay yet. But he was so good looking without a shirt!
gran77
Crazy! Me, too! Got many woodies watching Robin. Big high school crush on classmate named Robin. My first boyfriend looked like a young Robert Wagner, down to look in his eyes, shape of his mouth, and hair pattern on his chest! Crazy, huh??
clhs
@gran77 sorry to be off topic but can I ask who the chap in your photo is, please? Ta.
Vince
Oh lord. I guess he was a grower then because I sure didn’t see anything. He was just a skinny kid in the demo video.
roniboi
My thoughts exactly
NateOcean
And yet t Catholic League of Decency had the time, and eagle eyesight, to go frame-by-frame drawing outlines around each and every perceived bulge.
It’s either a raging boner, or a minor crease in the costume.
gran77
They should’ve stuffed a few turkish towels in his briefs, too.
ShiningSex
THIS IS THE STUPIDEST STORY ON HERE. I AM SURE IT’S A SMALL PRICK BOASTING THAT HE WAS ACTUALLY HUNG. BLAH BLAH BLAH…PROBABLY UNTRUE.
Creamsicle
Girl, you gotta chill.
RichNYC
Cream I totally agree. His posts are maniacal. Calm. Do I really care about the supporting actors ‘manhood’? The part about the show getting him to take pills is lamentable. Such activity has led to the passing of too many. Shades of Judy Garland.
justgeo
Yes Robert Conrad had the best ass ever. Let’s not forget about all the wrestling shows ’54 pillow in my 4 year old lap with a raging hard on.
Doug
For years I’ve read a lot of gay men had an attraction for Robert Conrad (including me). I also fantasized about Wally Cleaver, lol…
Shirtless Climber
Amazing – a super skinny boy throwin a grown-up.
JamJewel
Sorry… no one gave better crotch so consistently than Eugene Maurice Orowitz [Michael Langdon.] No ass, but great crotch.
jlicks
I heard about his huge “problem” many years ago. He was one of my first JO fantasies.
rock9221
When the show first aired, he was packing serious heat. The shorts were padded so there was rarely an outline, but there was clearly a lot going on in there. I was in the 7th grade at the time and it was something I studied very intensely. Adam West was hot in a ‘well built older man’ kind of way, but Burt Ward, portraying a younger character gave off an incredible hot, boy next door aura that set this gay teen into orbit.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Most guys like him 5’6 to 5’8 thin have above average size dicks, usually 7.5 to 8-5. I know this through much hands (and mouth :-)) research…
If you Google images if him as Robin there is plenty of pictures clearly showing it
And it’s interesting the right-wing nutbag smcubags protested…what the fuuck were they doing checking out an 18 year old twinks junk??
eeebee333
Ward has been telling this story for decades. It’s not news.
Polaro
True, not news. He’s kind of a homophobic dick from some of his comments over the years too.
Bob LaBlah
What shocks me in that vid is how flat his butt is. Those are whats referred to as breaded buns. He looks like an average sized twink to me.
dcscotts
There are pills that shrink you? I never even heard of that. Is this a real story?
RichNYC
Dunno dc Scott’s, if I needed my package to be less prominent, I would just glance at a photo of Trump.
CityguyUSA
Yeah, the Catholics like it before it hits puberty.
just me
yup. peter pan first crush, then robin 🙂
charles myers
I remember the original batman movie that actually Adam Wests crotch being seen through a magnifying glass! What a treat…
Karlis
I, too, crushed on Burt Ward as Robin, but looking back at it now, still cute, but could not act his way out of a paper bag.
ptb2010
I don’t recall getting excited by the bulge in either Robin or Batman’s shorts but I do remember Nicholas Hammond as Spiderman having an enormous bulge!