Ben Affleck afslører det øjeblik hvor han vidste han var færdig med at være Batman

Ben Affleck var faktisk populær som Batman, men hans udgave af karakteren var så bare en del af film der netop ikke høstede samme respekt fra fans verden over, og selvom hans egen standalone Batman-film lød spændende, så blev den aldrig lavet.

Det reflekterer Affleck nu over i et dybdegående interview med GQ, hvor han samtidig afslører det singulære øjeblik hvor han vidste at hans tid som Batman var ved at nå vejs ende, og det skete da studiet indikerede at de ønskede at appellere til yngre biografgængere, men at det slet ikke var den vej Affleck selv ønskede:

"But what happened was 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 (Batman v. Superman). And so when I saw that I was like, 'Oh shit, 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."

Han siger desuden at hele tiden som superhelt ikke var synderligt lykkelig:

"I mean, my failings as an actor, you can watch the various movies and judge. 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."