Congratulations to all of us who have lived to see a new, new renaissance of news about original Real world cast member Eric Nies, because, well: We are now living in a daring new renaissance of news about original Real world cast member Eric Nies. Yesterday from the report yesterday—Specified by today’s premiere, which reveals that the actor, model and modern shaman tested positive for COVID-19 – that Nies was forced to teleport to Paramount Plus’s Real world reunion series, Homecoming New York, Het Nies also now revealed a somewhat improbable wrinkle in his generally improbable career. Ie that in 1995 he was almost named Robin Batman Forever (at least according to the original Real world cast member Eric Nies).
This is per All Icons host Danny Pellegrino, who this week interviewed Nies and several of his (virtual) airmates about their return to the Real world world 29 long, strange years after the series first appeared on MTV. The interim period brought about many changes for all involved, not least because they suddenly changed from “7 twentysomething with the free time to let themselves bickering in a house for a few weeksIn some of American TV’s first reality stars. For Nies, this apparently meant that he became friends with director and producer Joel Schumacher, what the Batman film franchise after Warner Bros. Tim Burton asked his creepy clown obsession elsewhere in the wake of Batman returns. Schumacher was apparently so impressed by the then 24-year-old Nies that he reported tried to make a few moves to get him into the Robin role, which eventually went to Chris O’Donnell, but the decision was (again, according to the original Real world star, and “Beauty Way” lifestyle guru, Eric Nies) blocked by star Val Kilmer, whose representatives “afraid I’m going to raise Val Kilmer. ”(This is according to the original Real world star Eric Nies, if you’re struggling to keep up.)
This is not, as it happens, the first time that Nies has driven this particular idea, although, as far as we can see, Kilmer or Schumacher have never been asked about it. Even though the original article seems to have fallen off the internet, hI said something similar (including the “upstage” line) back in 2009, while promoting his appearance on VH1s Confessions of a Teenage God. But while Nies was definitely a fit man in the mid-nineties, it is not clear from his acting resume whether he could match the superheroic gravitas that O’Donnell eventually brought to the role.
Real World: Homecoming, New York is currently airing on Paramount Plus.