During his appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Monday night,?Ben Affleck finally spoke out about the ridiculous-but-unsurprising backlash he’s received over being cast as the new Batman ? backlash the studio was apparently expecting.
“They sent me [reactions to] people who were in these movies who did a great job and they’d say, ‘Kill himmmm!’ said Affleck. “They said just don’t use the Internet for a couple of days… I handle shit. I’m very tough. I saw the announcement, I look down on the first comment… the first one just goes, ‘Nooooooooo!'”
First or all, I love that the studio was like, “We’re going to piss off a lot of people if we do this… Ah, fuck it!” Second of all, poor Ben. I’m sure he remembers the shitty movies he’s been in ? as everyone else on the internet very obviously does ? but he’s probably still like, “Did I black out for the past year-and-a-half, already film this movie, and miss the premiere? Why is everyone so certain I’m going to fuck this up?”