Ben Affleck Recounts ‘Justice League’ Filming to be a Lowpoint

Ben Affleck reflected on how miserable of an experience it was shooting Justice League.

Affleck talked about the negative experience in the Happy Sad Confused podcast.  According to the actor, it was not any one thing. There were bad experiences on-set, but also because of problems in his personal life.

“The truth is, the experience of Justice League for me was so, so negative for lots of different reasons. Some of which having to do with where I was personally, some of which having to do with the tragedy that happened during the time, and also the fact that I really saw how not to make a movie like that when the studio is at odds with the filmmaker. You’re really making a mistake. That was what really doomed that.”

Ben Affleck on Zack Snyder’s Removal from ‘Justice League’

Ben Affleck continued and reiterated how difficult it was for him and the rest of the Justice League cast when original director Zack Snyder left the project. While the official statement for Snyder’s removal was due to the death of his daughter, Affleck believes otherwise.

“Boy, that was shi–y. [Zack Snyder] being taken off that movie, and the reshoots that we did — if you want the low point of my career, [it] was that… Somebody’s death by suicide, that eclipses everything. And the way in which that was, I thought, frankly, used as an excuse… I just thought that was one of the sh—iest things I’ve ever seen. It was so gross. And then the whole environment and vibe, much of which I wasn’t privy to, but that I sort of heard about secondhand in terms of Ray [Fisher] and Gal [Gadot] and other people’s experiences. It was just like, ‘Wow, this is about as gross as it gets.’”

In the end, Affleck felt happy for Snyder that the now famous director’s cut of Justice League was released.