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Ben Affleck Says ‘I’ve Lost Interest’ in Superhero Movies and Batman Skewed So Old That ‘My Son Was Too Scared to Watch’: ‘Oh S—. We Have a Problem’


Ben Affleck is opening up about why playing Batman was "a really excruciating experience."

Ben Affleck joined GQ magazine for a new cover story where he continued to reflect on what went wrong with his run as Batman in Zack Snyder’s DC Universe. He explained: “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.” While the actor had good moments on set and liked creatively his approach to Batman as a “sort of older, broken, damaged Bruce Wayne,” a clash started to brew over his Dark Knight and the larger DC Universe being too adult.

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