Ben Affleck hated wearing “horrendous” batsuit for ‘Batman’
Oscar-winning actor Ben Affleck, who played Batman in 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2017’s Justice League and 2023’s The Flash, recently shared that the infamous costume was “horrendous to wear”.
In a new GQ video interview, he stated: “I hated the Batsuits. The Batsuits are horrendous to wear. They’re incredibly hot, for one thing. They don’t breathe. They’re made to look the way they want ‘em to look, and there’s no thought put into the human being.”
Affleck juxtaposed his own humanness with the impossible confines of the suit, admitting that “you just start sweating” into as soon as it is slipped on. He added: “I sweat, you know what I mean? I get hot. And so in that thing, you would just be pouring water because it’s got the cowl over it.”
Things only got worse for Affleck once he added the mask, too. “Like, there’s one thing to wear the suit,” he complained, “but once you cover your head, I guess that’s where all your heat kind of escapes and you feel it.”
It wasn’t just Affleck complaining about the suit, he claimed, “Even the most highly-trained, much more fit stunt guys, the parkour guys, the action guys struggled in the Batsuit. After 50 minutes maximum, they were almost “gonna get heat stroke. So you had to come out of it.”
The costume posed a real issue to the making of the film. “That was really the thing was that it just made it difficult to make the movie because it was so hot,” he added. It added extra pressure on his acting capability as it did “not make you feel very heroic.”
The series’ first director Tim Burton also objected to the Batsuit, on an aesthetic, rather than a logistic, level. He told Empire in 2022 that he hated the so-called “Batnipple” suit that George Clooney wore in Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin. Burton would later quit the franchise over stylistic disagreements.
Never Miss A Scene
The Far Out Film Newsletter
All the latest film news from the independent voice of culture.
Straight to your inbox.