Ben Affleck and Christian Bale once ran into each other in the Batman section of a costume store

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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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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.