For some actors , land a marquee superhero part is a career - capping laurels . For others — include most ofHollywood ’s Batmenover the yr , include Michael Keaton , Christian Bale , and Robert Pattinson — it ’s an interesting and entertaining , but not defining , part of their filmography . For a few , or maybe just one performer in particular , it ’s something to be looked back upon withdespair and loathing . That performer being , of course , Ben Affleck .
Affleck ’s unhappiness during his “ Batfleck ” time period was well - documented and became prolific meme fresh fish . He first ingest on the mantle for 2016’sBatman v Superman : Dawn of Justiceand also played the character inboth versionsofJustice League . His last fourth dimension as Batman amount with a cameo in 2023’sThe Flash . And with DC ’s leading now in new work force , and at least one new Batman now set up in Robert Pattinson , it seems Affleck is detached forever from any succeeding returns .
In a unexampled audience withGQ , it sound like he ’s found creative fulfillment in both producing and aim more than act latterly , though he does haveThe Accountant 2opening soon . One rationality seems to be his less - than - felicitous state of psyche while he was on theJustice Leagueset .
Ben Affleck in Zack Snyder’s Justice League.© Warner Bros.
“ There are a turn of reasons why that was a really excruciating experience . And they do n’t all have to do with the simple dynamic of , say , being in a superhero movie or whatever , ” he told the magazine . “ I am not concerned in survive down that finicky genre again , not because of that bad experience , but just : I ’ve lost interest in what was of sake about it to me . But I certainly would n’t want to replicate an experience like that . A lot of it was misalignment of agendas , discernment , expectations . And also by the style , I was n’t bring anything particularly wonderful to that equation at the time , either . I had my own failing , significant weakness , in that mental process and at that time . ”
Also , he realized along the way that things had perhaps gotten too dreary for Batman and the rest of the DC Extended Universe . “ It started to skew too old for a big part of the audience . Like even my own son at the time was too scared to watch the movie . And so when I saw that I was like , ‘ Oh shit , we have a problem , ' ” he recalled . “ Then I think that ’s when you had a movie maker that wanted to continue down that road and a studio apartment that wanted to recapture all the new hearing at cross purposes . Then you have two entity , two people really wanting to do something different and that is a really bad recipe . ”
It was n’t fourth dimension altogether lay waste to , however . “ I had a really good time . I loved doing the Batman movie . I lovedBatman v Superman . And I like my abbreviated stint onThe Flashthat I did and when I got to function with Viola Davis onSuicide Squadfor a twenty-four hours or two , ” Affleck said . “ In terms of creatively , I really call back that I care the idea and the ambition that I had for it , which was of the kind of older , broken , damaged Bruce Wayne . And it was something we really went for in the first movie . ”
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