Ben Affleck Had an ‘Awful’ Experience Filming ‘Justice League’ Amid Divorce From Jennifer Garner

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A difficult time. Following Ben Affleck’s brief tenure as Batman, he has since opened up about why that filming was such a “bad” experience thanks to the timing of his breakup from ex-wife Jennifer Garner.“It was really Justice League that was the nadir for me,” the Tender Bar star, 49, told The Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Friday, January 7, about 2016’s Batman V.

Superman: Dawn of Justice and the 2017 follow-up. “That was a bad experience because of a confluence of things: My own life, my divorce, being away too much, the competing agendas and then [director] Zack [Snyder]’s personal tragedy [his daughter died by suicide in 2017] and the reshooting.

It just was the worst experience. It was awful.”After Snyder stepped away from the film, Joss Whedon stepped in to direct.

The Avengers director’s reshoots were reportedly very tense. At the time, Whedon, now 57, allegedly told Gal Gadot, who plays Wonder Woman, to “shut up and say the lines,” threatening to “make her look incredibly stupid in this movie,” per an April 2021 Hollywood Reporter report. (Whedon has not publicly addressed the allegations.)Fellow Justice League star Ray Fisher, who played Cyborg, accused Whedon of abusing his power in June 2020. “Joss Whedon’s on-set treatment of the cast and crew of Justice League was gross, abusive, unprofessional and completely unacceptable,” Fisher, now 34, wrote via Twitter at the time.He continued: “It was everything that I didn’t like about this.