The day we met Batman, The Flash, Wonder Woman and the rest of your super heroes

Los Angeles — It was one of those typical cold and foggy London days when we interviewed the super heroes of “Justice League”. At The Rosewood Hotel in London, we met Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa and Ray Fisher.

Helmed by Zack Snyder, the movie is the fifth installment in the DC Extended Universe.

Below are excerpts of our chats with your favorites:

Ben Affleck (Bruce Wayne/Batman)

All photos courtesy of Janet Susan R. Nepales/HFPA

On his relationship to money: “I am not somebody who glorifies the rich or who thinks boy, one day, if I could just become a billionaire, I could be happy, or has this notion that sort of like that famous quote that the rich are different than you and I, they have more money.  So my relationship to money has been to not chase it and to try and remember that often times you are presented with choices in this business.

“Some pay better and others offer more personal satisfaction.  I have tried to err on the side of the personal satisfaction.  Although my father was a writer and a director and not successful and had to make a living as a bartender and an auto mechanic, so there is a part of me that wants to be different than my father.  I could write a whole play about it.  So I am also tempted by the hallmarks of success in terms of ascribing some personal achievement to that. I am not immune to it.  But I don’t think that being rich is actually a superpower, unless you spend all your money on the Batmobile.”

On where he feels he is right now in his life: “I am at a good place in my life. I am at a place where I understand that the most important commitment that I have in my life is to my three children, and that the most important person in that life is the mother of those kids, who is Jennifer Garner. She is an amazing mom and an amazing lady --- to be a mom and go to work and do movies and come home and still do three times as much with the school activities than I do.

“So she shames me in that way. I look up to her and admire her a great deal as a parent.  That is the focus on my life. Everything else orbits that. I love my career, I love my work and I don’t want to let it break into that sphere with I like to keep sacred.  But I also think part of being a good parent is having your own interesting vital life full of experiences that you can bring to your kids and share with your kids. Jen does a great job with that and that is something that I am trying to do as well.”

Ezra Miller (Barry Allen/The Flash)

On his own power: “I would go with something simple like love, which is what I am trying to be, is a good lover in the world.

On what he has learned about love: “I am more into unlearning, that’s what I think we get taught a lot about love from a young age, and it gets a lot of hype.  It gets positioned in our psychological framework on quite a pedestal and within quite a frame, sometimes a very tight frame of what it can look like.  So for me, what the process has been in love is less about learning and more about unlearning all of that rubbish as they would call it here in England, that surrounds us in culture and media in the way we are educated.

“Like sexual education, the worst of the worst, read my sister’s sexual education comic book, ‘Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf’ and that is some good sex education and what the kids need.  It’s really good. I am not kidding. She did write a comic book that has been published by Microcosm Books, ‘Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf,’ shouting it out.  Yeah, that is my answer --- unlearning, and just forget what you have been told and allow for feeling to guide you and follow the call of love as opposed to following the calling of some person who wants to enforce or dictate what love can be for you.  Those people s**k.”

On the pitfalls of super power and if power is the ultimate aphrodisiac: “When there is power, there is no more illusion of neutral, so everything falls to one side or another in the way that things cut dualistically in this world.  And that’s a big part of the exploration in superhero mythology is, that once that power arises, there is an endless series of choices that land you on one side or another or halfway in between, or navigating back and forth between this premise of duality good or evil.  So that is what I would say is that once there is that power, there is no longer hiding in a space that feels neutral, and which I don’t think exists anyway. We are all very much a part of a living history together.  So we are all accountable for everything we do.

“We also just have a messed up the idea of what power is. It’s very distorted.  We think that power is symbolized by having weapons or having money.  But I don’t know, we don’t have the power to sustain life on our own planet.  Only nature has the power to do that.  We keep fluffing up our own idea of power.  But I don’t think we truly understand it.  I am sorry, wanted to add that, I just got mad.”

Gal Gadot (Diana Prince/Wonder Woman)

On juggling motherhood and career: “It’s a constant battle.  I think that and I know from other friends that I have that are also actresses and also mothers.  It’s like we always ask each other, so how are you going to do that, how are you going to handle that? There’s also this guilt that you always feel that you are not enough of a mom when you work and you are not enough of an actress when you are home. I remember working with Kate Winslet on something, and she has three kids from three different dads. I was like how do you do that?  And she said, honestly, there is no one formula that works for everyone.  Every project is different. She takes it one project at a time. She tries to tackle it and that’s what I do.  I try to be the best that I can in whatever I do.  But if you have any tips, I would be happy to hear them.”

On how competitive she is: “I was competitive when I was younger and played sports and I still am competitive. I played basketball and I was really good in defense because I was the tallest one.  I was good in rebounds and defense.  But I played volleyball, and my mom is a physical education teacher, so growing up there was like no way we would watch TV and just be couch potatoes.  My mom would give us a ball, go out and play. It was great for me because I learned how to work in a team.

“I am very competitive, so you work in order to get something, and you have to learn how to comfort each other. You have to learn how to celebrate and give each other the credit.  So I really enjoyed it. I played double tennis, the couples tennis, and I was bad.  I was bad but I enjoyed it too much.  I remember my partner always used to get so upset of me enjoying it so much and me missing servers.  But yeah, I am competitive, but I enjoy it.”

Jason Momoa (Arthur Curry/Aquaman

On where he gets his energy: “Straight passion and just doing and wanting to learn new things and just trying to do things I love to do.  That can mean just being a father or that can mean rock climbing or have a couple of beers.  I just want to be passionate in everything I do, because when I do that well and I am pursuing what I love, it makes me high.  That’s my mother box.

Ray Fisher (Victor Stone/Cyborg)

On his personal source of his energy: “I siphon my energy from Jason Momoa (laughs). The man has got an unlimited amount of energy and he could be a mother box.  My energy source honestly is, I never really thought about that question specifically and if I had to say off the fly, I would say that it comes from just an innate love for what we do. It comes from a love for the characters and a love of these things since I was a kid. We are in a very fortunate position to be able to be at this level working with such iconic characters and part of that energy comes from trying to don the mantle and do justice to him.” — LA, GMA News

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