The discourse around the end of the Snyderverse in The Flash has been brought up again to that era’s Batman, Ben Affleck. In a career-spanning video interview with GQ, the actor was asked if the last iteration of the Batsuit he wore as the character was his favorite, and the answer is an new all-timer Affleck-is-tired meme.
“I mean, I hated the bat suits,” he said. “The bat suits are horrendous to wear.”
It’s a known issue with superhero costumes, which often look like armored athleisure but are seemingly always uncomfortable to wear. Affleck continued, “They’re hot for one thing, they don’t breathe. They’re made to look the way they want them to look and there’s no thought put into the human being.”
“And so what happens is that you just start sweating. Now, I’m already—I sweat, you know what I mean? I get hot and so in that thing, you would just be pouring water because it’s got the cowl over it. Like there’s one thing to wear the suit, but once you cover your head, I guess that’s where all your heat kind of escapes and you feel it.”
Affleck gave credit to the stunt guys who had to spend the most time actually wearing the outfit. “Even the most highly trained, much more fit stunt guys, the parkour guys, the action guys, they could do that for about like 45-50 minutes and then they were like gonna get heat stroke,” he said. “So you had to come out of it and that was really the thing, was that it just made it difficult to make the movie because it was so hot. And it also does not make you feel very heroic because you’re instantly exhausted and really sweaty and kind of trying to hide like the sweat pouring down your face. Like ‘No, we can go again, I’m fine, I’m good’ and the eye black [liner] is running.”
While his time in the role was fraught with a lot of discourse and difficulties, Affleck seems glad to be out of the suit at least. “Maybe you know, Christian [Bale] or Rob [Pattinson], guys like that were just better at maybe, you know, dealing with it. But I found it to be the least fun part of it.”
Wardrobe gripes aside, Affleck does have appreciation for his DC era, which began with his partnership on the vision of Batman he shared with Zack Snyder on Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice and the Snyder cut of The Justice League.
“Somebody sent me something that showed me the Snyder cut of The Justice League was my highest-rated movie on IMDb, which I found quite interesting,” he said. “I think it’s because one of the things the Snyder cut, so to speak, [it] is actually really the movie that Zack wanted to make. You have a director with a very clear idea of the kind of story they understand and want to tell. And then you’ve got a commercial expectation, for example, like a very valuable like IP property, etc. And so there’s so sometimes they’ll hire this person for their distinctive take and view and then want to impose on that something different.”
Snyder was famously shuffled off The Justice League before getting a second crack at it, and Affleck, as a filmmaker himself, was pleased that it worked out in his collaborator’s favor.
“One of the things about directing is typically you want to have it be closest to what that director is interested in and finds appealing. And so that movie is very much what Zack’s vision was. And it’s a rare thing that somebody gets the chance to go back and revisit and try to do what they wanted to do. And given the difficulty of that movie, I was very happy for Zack, [that] he got a chance to do that.”
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