


Affleck’s “Batman v Superman” co-stars spoke respectfully about his portrayal of a melancholy caped crusader. With a chuckle, he added: “You wonder, is this healthy?” He’s filling the hole in his soul with these increasingly morally questionable nighttime excursions - fighting crime as well as by being this playboy.” Instead, I think it’s interesting how we manage the best version of ourselves, despite our flaws and our weaknesses and our sometime tendencies to do the wrong thing.” When he watches other movies that strain to make their protagonists likable and valorous, Mr. Garner’s Vanity Fair profile.Īnd though he said he could not pinpoint why he chose to play Batman right now, he did offer a broader theory on the parts that currently appeal to him. At times he seemed anxious and out of sorts, as if waiting for some other shoe to drop.ĭespite vowing not to, he did eventually address Ms. Affleck was friendly and funny, but also soft-spoken and vulnerable. Affleck, she told the magazine: “I always say, ‘When his sun shines on you, you feel it.’ But when the sun is shining elsewhere, it’s cold. Garner, in which she discussed the dissolution of their relationship. Vanity Fair magazine published an interview with Ms. Then, the day before this interview was to take place, he was hit with a bombshell.
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Amid a torrent of tabloid reports alleging bad behavior, infidelity and questionable tattoos, he finds himself at maximum attention at an especially humbling moment. Affleck following the announcement that he and his wife, Jennifer Garner, plan to divorce after a 10-year marriage. The comic-book blockbuster has shone an intense spotlight on Mr. Affleck for “Batman v Superman” seemed to arouse an especially vehement and personal animus when it was revealed in 2013. While fans of superhero movies always grouse about their casting, the selection of Mr. Affleck, the dual role of Batman and his wealthy, womanizing alter ego, Bruce Wayne, is a straight-ahead bid for marquee-idol status after the 2014 thriller “Gone Girl,” which cast him as a dysfunctional husband caught in a complex revenge plot.īut this popcorn fare is also a somewhat bewildering choice for someone with an increasingly prestigious reputation as a filmmaker in his own right, one who directed and starred in “Argo,” which won the Academy Award for best picture in 2013. The superhero grudge match is the studio’s $250 million moonshot, painstakingly engineered to begin a new, multifilm franchise that is based on the DC Comics characters and to compete with the movies its rivals at Marvel have been making for nearly a decade.įor Mr. He is about to star in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” which Warner Bros.
