But it wasnt all bad.
And it was something we really went for in the first movie, the actorrecently toldGQ.
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I certainly wouldnt want to replicate an experience like that, he said.
Ben Affleck in ‘Justice League,’ 2017Warner Bros. Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
A lot of it was misalignment of agendas, understandings, expectations.
I had my own failings, significant failings, in that process and at that time.
Among those failings was a burgeoning drinking habit.
I drank relatively normally for a long time.
But that ends up making your life worse.
Then you do more of it to make that discomfort go away.
Then the real pain starts.
It becomes a vicious cycle you cant break.
Thats at least what happened to me.
So I wasnt bringing a lot of positive energy to the equation.
I didnt cause problems, but I came in and I did my job and I went home.
But youve got to do a little bit better than that.
I showed somebodyThe Batmanscript, Affleck told theTimes.
They said, I think the script is good.
I also think youll drink yourself to death if you go through what you just went though again.'
I didnt really mind that.
And not because I have any shame with it or anything.
Its not the central preoccupation of my life.
The confluence of role and public perception was not exactly intentional, he says.
And I didnt ask for that to become something people knew about.
But I cant complain about it either.
