Burt Ward, Robin in ’60s TV Series ‘Batman’, Said He Was Given Pills to Shrink the Size of His ‘Large Bulge’
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Burt Ward, who played Robin in the campy ’60s TV series Batman alongside Adam West, says producers, concerned about how much the tight-fitting costume showed off, sent him to a doctor who prescribed pills to shrink the size of his package.
Said Ward to Page Six: “They thought that Robin had a very large bulge for television. With Adam they put Turkish towels in his undershorts. I took [the pills] for three days and then I decided that they can probably keep me from having children. I stopped doing that and I just used my cape to cover it.”
Burt Ward auditioning for Robin in 1965.
Ward received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this week.
And here are a bunch of his famous “holy” pronouncements.
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