Ben Affleck Opens Up About Playing Batman On ‘Justice League’: “What I Was Bringing To Work Every Day Was A Lot Of Unhappiness”
Ben Affleck has been open about his struggles with alcohol and challenges being under the cowl in Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016). Justice League (2017) and The Flash (2023). But it wasn’t all bad.
“I loved Batman v Superman. And I liked my brief stints on The Flash that I did and when I got to work with Viola Davis on Suicide Squad for a day or two,” the actor-director says in a new interview. “In terms of creatively, I really think that I like the idea and the ambition that I had for it, which was of the sort of older, broken, damaged Bruce Wayne. And it was something we really went for in the first movie,” the actor recently told GQ.
Justice League, it seems, was a different story — for many reasons.
“I certainly wouldn’t want to replicate an experience like that,” he said. “A...
“I loved Batman v Superman. And I liked my brief stints on The Flash that I did and when I got to work with Viola Davis on Suicide Squad for a day or two,” the actor-director says in a new interview. “In terms of creatively, I really think that I like the idea and the ambition that I had for it, which was of the sort of older, broken, damaged Bruce Wayne. And it was something we really went for in the first movie,” the actor recently told GQ.
Justice League, it seems, was a different story — for many reasons.
“I certainly wouldn’t want to replicate an experience like that,” he said. “A...
- 3/26/2025
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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