Burt Ward has been thinking about his longtime pal, “Batman” star Adam West.
The actor, who played the Cape Crusader in the popular ‘60s TV series, passed away in 2017 at age 88 from leukemia.
The 76-year-old played his trusty sidekick Robin.
“He and I got along incredibly well,” Ward revealed in the latest issue of Closer Weekly currently in newsstands. “Within five minutes of meeting, the two of us were laughing so hard they had to tell us to quiet down. We just clicked. He was the funniest person I have ever met in my entire life.”
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American actors Adam West as Bruce Wayne/Batman and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson/Robin in the TV series “Batman,” circa 1966.
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And their bond carried on even when the pair wasn’t on set.
“On the weekends, we would play tennis together,” said Ward. “We were going to public courts, and people would look over and say, ‘It’s Batman and Robin playing tennis!’”
Ward insisted that he won a lot “because I was much faster.”
“But he would say things like, ‘We can’t count that one,’” he told the outlet. “He tried to make it a little more even.”
But bringing the show to life was no laughing matter. Ward, who did a lot of his stunts, said he got hurt “every single day.”
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Adam West (left) and Burt Ward remained friends even after ‘Batman’ ended.
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“I mean, you can’t imagine,” he explained. “One time I was tied down to a table, and Batman was supposed to blow a hole through the wall. The studio forgot to build a breakaway wall, so the special effect guys used real dynamite to blow the soundstage down. I couldn’t hear for a week after that.”
“It was dangerous,” he continued. “I kept seeing the same doctor at the hospital….
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