“I Have Not Seen Ben Affleck’s Batman”: Christian Bale

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A lot of people compare Christian Bale’s version of Batman to Ben Affleck’s portrayal, but, Bale himself can’t do that even if he tried.

The reason is that Bale has not seen Ben Affleck’s Batman. Bale has earlier admitted that he is not much of a fan of the superhero genre, and that’s one of the reasons why he hasn’t seen any of the two movies featuring Affleck as Batman (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League).

“I have not [seen Ben Affleck’s Batman],” Bale told Josh Horowitz. “Yes I’m interested [in seeing it], my son seemed like he was really interested, but then I realized he just wanted to see the trailer and that was it—I tend to go see films that [my kids] want to see. I have to confess I’m not a huge superhero film fan. People seem surprised at that; I don’t know why. I’ve not seen any of the Avengers films or any of those films at all. I hear they’re very good, but I’m quite happy just hearing they’re very good.”

Bale’s performance as The Dark Knight is regularly called as one of the best Batman portrayals on the big screen, but, Bale is not greatly pleased with his Batman trilogy.

 “Mixed emotions about it,” Bale told Variety. “I’m always eternally grateful to [director] Chris [Nolan]. For instance, Rescue Dawn, Werner [Herzog] and I had been trying to put that together for a few years. American Psycho, Mary Harron and I had been trying to put that together for a few years. No one was interested. Why? Me. Suddenly everyone said, ‘Yeah, alright. We’ll go with him.’ It did change everything. It was the first time I had done a film of that magnitude. That was a real learning curve for me. I wrestled with it for a long time. I still do on occasions. But I’m just learning, hey, accept the good things.”

Bale can still check Ben Affleck’s work as Batman because Justice League is still running in some theaters.

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