Ben Affleck has determined that filming Justice League was a “low point” in his acting career.

The actor-producer-director made a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, where he opened up to host Josh Horowitz about why making the movie was such a negative experience. Affleck played Bruce Wayne/Batman in the 2017 superhero pic.

“The truth is, the experience of Justice League for me was so, so negative for lots of different reasons,” he admitted. “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.”

After 2016’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice became a major critical disappointment and didn’t meet Warner Bros.’ box office expectations, the studio wanted Zack Snyder’s Justice League to be a lighter tone, despite the filmmaker’s darker creative vision for the film.

During post-production, Snyder stepped away from the movie following the death of his daughter. Warner Bros. then brought in director Joss Whedon to oversee extensive reshoots, which ultimately lightened the tone.

“Boy, that was shitty,” Affleck said. “Him being taken off that movie, and the reshoots that we did — if you want the low point of my career, [it] was that.”

Horowitz also asked the Animals star and director if he had any kind of “epiphany” while working on Justice League as he saw “this film kind of collapsing in front of you.”

“Somebody’s death by suicide, that eclipses everything,” Affleck replied. “And the way in which that was, I thought, frankly, used as an excuse… I just thought that was one of the shittiest 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.’”

Several years later, fans finally got to see Snyder’s version of the film. A Justice League director’s cut was released in 2021 on HBO Max following a global fan campaign, a strategy shift for the streamer and Warner Bros. investing $70 million to finish visual effects and editing.

“I was really glad and gratified that Zack got to release [his cut], and he did it in a very kind of canny way… manipulated his way into getting his thing released, which was fucking great,” Affleck said. “I was really happy for him.”

James McAvoy recalls his first day on the set of Band of Brothers and says a co-star bullied him.

During a visit to Bravo‘s Watch What Happens Live while playing “Spill the IMDb-tea,” McAvoy made the revelation while keeping mum about the names.

After being shown a photo of the HBO series, McAvoy took a closer look at the image and said, “Hold on, let me just see, is he in there? No, I don’t think he is in there. Ah, yeah, he is.”

“All right, so, I’m not going to tell you who it was,” he added. “[But] … one of the guys in that picture decided to bully me, on my first day as a professional actor out of acting school! So he got him and his buddies to just stand and point at me and laugh at me, for like three minutes.”

McAvoy explained that the scene he was shooting involved “a ton of actors,” adding, “It was one of those scenes with everybody in it, and we’re in a bar. And I had a scene, and all these guys were, like, in it for nine, 10 months, and you get one line in one episode and one line 10 episodes later. They were all pissed. And I come in for one episode, and I’ve got an arc and scenes. I’ve got tons of lines.”

The actor noted that his co-stars Dexter Fletcher and Robin Laing reached out to him and told him, “Come hang with us, man.”

McAvoy rated his experience on the Band of Brothers set saying that “a part from that day it was a nine, but that day it felt like a two [out of 10].”

Bravo host Andy Cohen said he would get the tea from McAvoy during the commercial break but the actor said that he would not confirm who it was. However, McAvoy did not that it was not David Schwimmer as he was not in the photo the put up on screen.

The photo in question featured Donnie Wahlberg as Carwood Lipton, Kirk Acevedo as Joe Toye, Scott Grimes as Donald Malarkey, Philip Barantini as Wayne A. “Skinny” Sisk, Neal McDonough as Lynn “Buck” Compton, Adam James as Cleveland O. Petty, Frank John Hughes as William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, and Ross McCall as Joseph Liebgott.

Band of Brothers was a 2001 drama series created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and based on the Stephen E. Ambrose’s non-fiction book of the same name.

Watch McAvoy’s interview in the video below.