It must be exhausting to fight all that crime in a skin-tight suit. Ben Affleck opened up about the difficulties of costuming during his tenure as Batman, giving GQ a detailed breakdown on the physically draining experience of wearing a Batsuit.
“I hated the Batsuits. The Batsuits are horrendous to wear,” Affleck said. “They’re hot for one thing. They don’t breathe. They’re made to look the way they want them to look. There’s no thought put into the human being. So what happens is that you just start sweating. I’m already — I sweat, you know what I mean? So in that thing, you’d just be pouring water.”
“It just made it difficult to make the movie, because you’re so hot. It also does not make you feel very heroic, because you’re instantly exhausted and really sweaty,” Affleck continued, chuckling. “Maybe Christian [Bale] or Rob [Pattinson], guys like that, were just better at dealing with it.”
Affleck played Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” “The Flash” and “Justice League,” as well as the expanded “Zack Snyder’s Justice League.”
The Batsuit hasn’t been immune to criticism before, though the series’ first director Tim Burton had objections that were more cosmetic. Speaking to Empire in 2022, he slammed the so-called “Batnipple” suit that George Clooney donned in Joel Schumacher’s “Batman & Robin.”
“I was like, ‘Wait a minute. Okay. Hold on a second here. You complain about me, I’m too weird, I’m too dark, and then you put nipples on the costume? Go fuck yourself,’” Burton said, comparing the new suit’s outlandish aesthetic flourishes to the more tame stylistic disagreements that led to him exiting the franchise.
