Ben Affleck admitted to San Diego's Comic-Con crowd Saturday he's a little nervous about playing Batman in the forthcoming film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
"If I thought too hard about the actors who played this part before, I couldn't take the job," he said, according to BBC News.
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