Ben Affleck received’t be responding to the Bat Sign — ever once more.
The Oscar-winning actor made his debut because the Darkish Knight in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” earlier than reprising the function in movies like 2017’s “Justice League” and 2023’s “The Flash,” however he’ll by no means be Batman.
Affleck opened up concerning the “excruciating experience” of taking part in the superhero in a brand new interview.
This comes after he informed the Los Angeles Occasions in 2022 that it was “awful” and “the worst experience.”
“There are a number of reasons why that was a really excruciating experience,” Affleck shared with GQ in an interview revealed on Tuesday, March 25. “They usually don’t all should do with the easy dynamic of, say, being in a superhero film or no matter.
The star — who’s making the rounds selling “The Accountant 2,” the follow-up to the 2016 thriller — defined he’s “not interested in going down that particular genre again.”
For him, it’s “not because of that bad experience, but just: I’ve lost interest in what was of interest about it to me. But I certainly wouldn’t want to replicate an experience like that.”
Affleck continued by itemizing every thing that went fallacious whereas placing a number of the blame on himself.
“A lot of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations. And also by the way, I wasn’t bringing anything particularly wonderful to that equation at the time, either. I had my own failings, significant failings, in that process and at that time,” he stated.
“I mean, my failings as an actor, you can watch the various movies and judge,” Affleck continued. “But more of my failings of, in terms of why I had a bad experience, part of it is that what I was bringing to work every day was a lot of unhappiness. So I wasn’t bringing a lot of positive energy to the equation. I didn’t cause problems, but I came in and I did my job and I went home. But you’ve got to do a little bit better than that.”
The actor was going through a number of private points across the time he filmed “Batman v Superman” in 2014.
His 10-year marriage to Jennifer Garner crumbled in June 2015, with the pair saying their separation. The actor was additionally scuffling with alcohol.
In March 2017, he introduced that he had once more “completed treatment for alcohol addiction” following his 2001 rehab stint.
Affleck informed GQ that he began his manufacturing firm, Artists Fairness, in an try and “avoid” what he skilled throughout his days as Batman.
“I want to put together partnerships and filmmakers and cast and a studio apparatus that’s aligned, where precisely that kind of misalignment doesn’t happen and you have a much better work experience,” he acknowledged.
The actor additionally defined that whereas he loved taking part in a “sort of older, broken, damaged Bruce Wayne,” it wasn’t essentially what the DC Universe or the studio needed.
“What happened was it started to skew too old for a big part of the audience,” Affleck stated. “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 s–t, we have a problem.’ Then I think that’s when you had a filmmaker that wanted to continue down that road and a studio that wanted to recapture all the younger audience at cross purposes. Then you have two entities, two people really wanting to do something different and that is a really bad recipe.”
Affleck’s feedback mirror that of Robert Pattinson, who not too long ago stated he’s involved he’ll be “too old” to play the Caped Crusader in “The Batman Part II” by the point manufacturing begins.
The unique launch date of director Matt Reeves’ sequel to the 2022 flick has been pushed again years for undisclosed points.
“The Batman Part II” was initially slated for an October 2025 launch, reported Collider, however was moved apart earlier than touchdown the most recent date of October 1, 2027, and hasn’t even began filming but.
When requested by Hero journal earlier this month, “Are you going to do Batman again soon?” the actor responded, “I f–king hope so. I started out as young Batman and I’m going to be f–king old Batman by the sequel.”
Pattinson adopted up by saying, “I’m 38, I’m old.”
Affleck’s newest feedback on the superhero franchise weren’t the one tea he spilled in his interview with GQ.
He additionally dished on his failed marriage to Jennifer Lopez, revealing that they had totally different “temperaments.”
Affleck and Lopez married in 2022. She filed for divorce in 2024, on the two-year anniversary of their second marriage ceremony ceremony. The exes settled the tip of their marriage months in the past, in January.
However she wasn’t his solely ex-wife who entered the chat.
Affleck gushed over his relationship with Garner, whom he finalized his divorce with in October 2018, saying he’s “really lucky” to co-parent their three kids with such a “wonderful” associate.
