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October 13, 2014: Charles Rovan Says They Chose Affleck to Tower Over Cavill

Dawn of Justice In a video interview for Stephen Galloway's "The Hollywood Masters series", Charles Roven, "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" producer spoke at length about casting Ben Affleck in the role of Batman, which included the fact that he is taller than Henry Cavill.

    "He was the first guy we went to. That's who we wanted," said Roven, adding that Affleck had everything they were looking for in this new incarnation of both Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter ego, Batman. "We knew that we wanted a very mature Batman, because we wanted to juxtapose him with this very young Superman. So we wanted a guy who was tougher, rugged, who had signs of life, who had lived a hard life, and we wanted the guy to have chops, for sure. So when we went down that list, there just weren't a tremendous number of guys who could carry that."

    Roven added that Affleck's height was also a factor.

    "We also wanted a guy with big stature. Ben is 6'4". Henry [Cavill] is 6'1". We wanted Batman to tower over Superman. Not hugely, not like a basketball player. Superman needed to 'look up' to Batman. We wanted that dynamic, and Ben could do that, easily," he said.

Source: HollywoodReporter.com



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