Ben Affleck made his way onto late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night and talked about his experience before, during and after the news broke about his casting as Batman in the upcoming Superman Vs. Batman movie that’s going into production. Affleck, who has certainly taken an intense amount of criticism over the years for so many reasons, warranted and not, thought he was ready to handle this considering what he went through.
“The people from the studio were like, ‘We’re thrilled, we’re excited […] but listen,'” Affleck recalled last night on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.” “‘We want to talk to you, because people go through this process, and it can be trying.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ ‘We want to show you some of the reactions that past people who have been cast have gotten, like on the Internet and stuff.'”
Not naming any names, Affleck said, “They send me [reactions to] people who were in these movies who did a great job and they’d say, ‘Kill himmmm!’ You can’t say that before a movie comes out. It doesn’t matter what you think then, it matters what you think when you see the movie.”
“I was like, I’m a big boy,” he told Fallon. “They said, ‘Just don’t go on the Internet for a couple of days,’ and I said, ‘I handle shit.’ I’m very tough. I saw the announcement, I look on this thing, I look down on the first comment — ‘Ben Affleck’s Going To Be Batman,’ the first one just goes, ‘Nooooooooooooooo!'”
“We’re gonna be Luddites for a while, kids,” he added.
“They called me up and said, ‘Do you wanna do this?'” he told Fallon. “And I thought, ‘Well, I’m not 25, man. Are you sure about this?’ And they said, ‘Come down, we want to show you what we’re doing,’ and it was incredible. […] Zack Snyder’s directing it. He has this incredible take on it that’s like — obviously you can’t do what Chris [Nolan] and Christian [Bale] did, those movies are amazing. And so he wants to do something different but still in keeping with that. […] I thought, this is a brilliant way to do this, and I really know how to hook into this.”
