“I think characters in general are more interesting when you can exploit their flaws and see how they try to reconcile those flaws, their mistakes and what they do to try to remedy that, and how they try to become better,” he said.
For Affleck, playing Batman “was a lot of rich, fertile ground because he was such a dark, conflicted character.”
Like Batman, Affleck has been through a lot in his Hollywood career.
“It’s been long enough now, and I’ve been able to have a more sober look at my work and I can judge it, I think, pretty fairly from the stuff that I feel satisfied from the stuff that I don’t. But I do have the feeling still of the urgency to work, to make something, that auditioning-actor feeling that ’You gotta work or it’s all going to go away.’ I don’t think that’s ever going to go away,” he said.
The Oscar winner said playing Batman made him realize something.
“Going home was a lot of realizing how not superhero-ic I am because my back hurts, and I forever had some ache and pains. You realize how short those fights would really be,” he said. “I definitely was aware how mortal I really am. But they were great fun and put together really creatively.”
The actor is not only a force on the screen, he’s also a political activist. He shares his thoughts on the current US presidential elections.
“It’s a strange time, I’ve not seen anything like it in my life. It’s a very strange political time. There seems to be a tenor of meanness in the political process right now which is very depressing to watch,” he noted.
Affleck’s real-life hero is someone who was close to him, who taught him what it means to be hero.
“You know my grandfather is probably the guy - he’s passed away now. He meant a lot to me growing up. He was my model of kind of what a man should be. Heroism comes down to courage in the face of fear. Everyone is afraid and it’s what the hero does when he’s afraid that what makes him a hero. Heroes are just as scared as the rest of us but they conquer that,” said Affleck.
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