Despite everything, this is how Ben Affleck defended Zack Snyder

Although Ben Affleck charged everything against the DC Extended Universe, the actor was fair and also defended the work of Zack Snyder. This he said.

The controversial statements of Ben Affleck recently given to The Hollywood Reporter have made an impact. The actor referred to his upcoming projects, but it was not possible to avoid asking him about everything that happened with DC. His run as Batman started out with excitement, but ended in disappointment for reasons off-screen.

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Being honest, the celebrity attacked the decisions made by the studio and described the arrival of Joss Whedon. Likewise, he tried to be objective and defended the work done by Zack Snyder, with whom he obtained the highest critically rated film of his career. In this way, when they asked him to mention his worst opposition suffered in Hollywood, he did not hesitate.

The Justice League experience, the fact that those stories became kind of repetitive for me and less interesting. Yeah I finally figured out how to play that character [Batman]and I achieved it in Flash. For the five minutes I’m there, it’s really cool. A lot of it is just tone. You have to find out, what is your version of the person? Who’s the guy that fits what you can do? I tried to fit into a Batman. And by the way, I like a lot of the stuff we did, especially the first one. [Batman v Superman].

His criticism did not stop there. For him, if The League of Justice was taken as an object of study, “you could give a seminar on all the reasons why this is like not doing it. From the production to the bad decisions and the horrible personal tragedy, and ending with the most monstrous taste in your mouth. The genius, and the silver lining, is that Zack Snyder finally went to AT&T and said, “Look, I can give you four hours of content.” And it’s mostly all the slow motion that he shot in black and white. And a day of filming with me and him. He was like, “Do you want to come shoot in my backyard?” I was like, “I think there are unions, Zack. I think we have to make a deal.” But I went and did it. And now [Zack Snyder’s Justice League] it’s my highest rated movie in IMDb.

Zack Snyder’s Justice League

“Say what you want, it’s my highest rated career film. I have never had one go from nadir to pinnacle. Retroactively, it is a success. All of a sudden, I was congratulated on the bombshell I’m on. But I was going to direct Batmanand [Justice League] It made me say, “I’m out. I don’t want to do any of this ever again. I am not suitable. That was the worst experience I’ve ever seen in a business that is full of shitty experiences. He broke my heart. There was an idea that someone [Joss Whedon] come, like, “I’ll rescue you and we’ll do 60 days of shooting and I’ll write everything around what you have. I have the secret. And I had no secret, that was difficult, ”she finished.

Fountain: The Hollywood Reporter