Ben Affleck has lost interest in the Batman franchise, doubles down on excruciating experience

Ben Affleck won’t be responding to the Bat Signal — ever again.The Oscar-winning actor made his debut as the Dark Knight in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” before reprising the role in films like 2017’s “Justice League” and 2023’s “The Flash,” but he’ll never be Batman.Affleck opened up about the “excruciating experience” of playing the superhero in a new interview.This comes after he told the Los Angeles Times 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 published on Tuesday, March 25.“And they don’t all have to do with the simple dynamic of, say, being in a superhero movie or whatever. The star — who is making the rounds promoting “The Accountant 2,” the follow-up to the 2016 thriller — explained 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 listing everything that went wrong while putting some 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 said.“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.�...