Kevin Smith hasn't become a super villain and taken over a city thanks to the lessons he learned watching Burt Ward as Robin
learned early on to take the inevitable highs and lows of showbiz career in stride — and that includes a decades-long wait for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“I grew up with other people whose families were in show business, and I always wanted to be an actor, and so I studied a lot,” he says. But the neophyte’s fortunes quickly took a major uptick when he was summoned to a mysterious, secretive audition on the 20th Century Fox lot, and subsequently found himself being introduced to the well-liked producer William Dozier, who Ward later learned was trying to bring a comic book superhero favorite to the small screen.
“I was just a starry-eyed young guy that had a great time, and I loved playing the role,” says Ward. “’Batman’ was the No. 1 and No. 2 show in the world. It was tremendous, and you just almost can’t conceive how people reacted to our show. This was when television had just recently come in color. Nobody had ever played with an audience like we did. It was just electric, an amazing event in my life.
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