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’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director 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.

The Oscar winner debuted as the Dark Knight in 2016’s “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” and reprised the superhero in films such as “Justice League” and “The Flash.” He told the Los Angeles Times in 2022 that playing Batman was “awful” and “the worst experience.” Affleck is now opening up more about why. “There are a number of reasons why that was a really excruciating experience,” Affleck told GQ. “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.

But I certainly wouldn’t want to replicate an experience like that. A lot of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations.