Ben Affleck reveals his own son was too scared to watch his version of Batman

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Ben Affleck reveals his own son was too scared to watch his version of Batman

Writer: Heidi Hsia

Ben Affleck's brooding Batman was so intense

27 Mar - Three years after he first expressed his frustration about playing Batman, Ben Affleck decided to finally explain the reason why he will not revisit the superhero anymore.

In a recent interview with GQ, the actor shared his thoughts in playing the Dark Knight in Zack Snyder's "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" as well as other related DCU films at the time, saying that there are a number of reasons why it was a bad experience.

"And they don't all have to do with the simple dynamic of, say, being in a superhero movie or whatever. I am not interested in going down that particular genre again, not because of that bad experience, but just: I've lost interest in what was of interest about it to me," he said.

"I certainly wouldn't want to replicate an experience like that. 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."

Zack Snyder wanted a "darker" Batman while the studio wanted to cater for the young audience

Affleck also believed that his version of the character was "too adult" that his own son was too scared to watch the movie.

"And so when I saw that I was like, 'Oh s***, 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," he said.

Admitting that he also has his own failings as an actor by bringing a lot of his own unhappiness to work, Affleck said that the experience has taught him to avoid what went down during production as a producer through his own company, Artists Equity.

"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 said.