“I don’t know why he needed so many Usain Bolt shoes. He didn’t know what size they were,” the “Saturday Night Live” alum tells EW.

Val Kilmer took Bobby Moynihan’s shoes from SNL dressing room: ‘I can’t explain it’

"I don't know why he needed so many Usain Bolt shoes. He didn't know what size they were," the "Saturday Night Live" alum tells EW.

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- Bobby Moynihan says Val Kilmer took shoes that were a gift from Usain Bolt out of his *SNL* dressing room.

- Moynihan also remembers he and Taran Killam "turning into five-year-olds" when another ex-Batman, Michael Keaton, hosted the show.

- The comedian is voicing mutated scientist Man-Bat in the new animated Batman series *Bat-Fam* on Prime Video.

Bobby Moynihan is lending his voice to a new Batman project — and has fond memories of crossing paths with multiple iconic actors who played the Caped Crusader during his tenure at *Saturday Night Live*.

While discussing his turn as Man-Bat in the upcoming Prime Video animated series *Bat-Fam*, the *SNL* alum tells ** about a bizarre encounter he had with the late Val Kilmer, who played the Dark Knight in 1995's *Batman Forever*.

"I was sitting in my dressing room, probably smoking a cigarette — I was a smoker at the time," Moynihan says. "There's a knock on my dressing room door, and I didn't say anything, and it just opened, and it was Val Kilmer."

Moynihan says that the *Top Secret* star had a puzzling request when he entered the dressing room. "He had two or three boxes of shoes with him," he recalls. "And he said, 'Hey, man, do you want those shoes?'"

Val Kilmer in New York City on July 20, 2019.

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Those shoes had an unusual origin. "What had happened was Usain Bolt was around and had given everybody free shoes," Moynihan explains. "And for some reason, Val Kilmer showed up with a couple pairs in his hand and asked me if I wanted mine."

Moynihan inexplicably ceded his gift from the legendary Olympian. "For some reason I said 'No,' and Val took them and left, and I never saw him again," he says. "I can't explain it. I don't know why he needed so many Usain Bolt shoes. He didn't know what size they were."

Despite losing the shoes, Moynihan still looks on that encounter with fondness. "I'm glad that Val Kilmer got what he needed in that moment," Moynihan says. "It couldn't have been more perfect."

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The performer behind Drunk Uncle also lost his mind while performing alongside Michael Keaton when the *Spotlight* star hosted *SNL* in 2015. "It's like the most childish thing I've ever done," he says. "I'm looking right now at a signed Michael Keaton bobblehead of Batman and my signed Michael Keaton Beetlejuice head. When Michael Keaton came and hosted the show, Taran Killam and I turned into just five-year-olds."

Moynihan and Killam channeled their admiration for Keaton into their writing. "We wrote a sketch that was asking him if he'll play Batman or Beetlejuice with us, and they ended up turning it into the monologue, which was pretty nuts," he remembers. Hugging, having your arms around Batman while he says, 'I'm Batman' *and* 'It's Showtime' as Beetlejuice — 15-year-old Bobby didn't understand that and still really hasn't processed it."

Taran Killam, Michael Keaton, and Bobby Moynihan on 'Saturday Night Live' on April 4, 2015.

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On *Bat-Fam*, Moynihan's layabout version of Man-Bat (a.k.a. Mutated scientist Dr. Kirk Langstrom) is fairly different from his comic book counterpart.

"They sent me a drawing of a very scary looking feral bat that didn't look anything like it does now," the comedian recalls. "And we started talking, and then the idea of him living upstairs came, and then we started talking about him being more like the Big Lebowski — just being in a robe and hanging around all day."

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Moynihan also says that the vision for the character shifted once he officially boarded the project. "The drawings changed once I got cast and we had a couple conversations," he says. "That's, I think, when the robe and the coffee cup came in, and then that kind of led to him being more of a lazy dude and just kind of a weirdo. And that's where we ended up: we have this beloved weirdo."

Man-Bat and Damian Wayne in 'Bat-Fam'.

*Bat-Fam* isn't Moynihan's first bat-rodeo. He also hosts a goofy Batman-adjacent podcast *Who Me? With the Batmin* ("I just accuse people of killing my parents") and contributed voice work to the audio series *Batman Audio Adventures*.

"That was maybe the best job of my life," he says of *BAA*. "Dennis McNicholas, one of the writers from *SNL* 'Weekend Update,' is a gigantic comic book fan, and he just knocked it out of the park and wrote this audio adventure series and cast me as the Penguin and Bat-Mite. I just got to play in a world that I love, but that one was darker."

He continues, "I don't ever get to do stuff like that, so that's one of my favorite things I ever got to do. And same here with this one. Man-Bat is a blast. I was a fan of the character before, so now it's fun to put my own spin on it."

*Bat-Fam* premieres on Prime Video on Monday, Nov. 10.

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