Ben Affleck has no interest in running for public office.The "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" star told Variety that trying to become a politician sounds "terrible" and "tawdry" to him."I just think that’s enormously — I don’t know, man, that seems terrible," Affleck told the outlet while promoting a new movie in which he plays a candidate for L.A.mayor.
"There’s a reason why political stories are often chosen as parables for moral compromise.You really get thrust up into the contrast between the ideal version of us and how we should be in our lives and the way it is."BEN AFFLECK DIRECTS, STARS IN NETFLIX KIDNAPPING THRILLER 'ANIMALS' COMING THIS OCTOBERBen Affleck said he has no interest in running for public office.
(Getty Images)The 54-year-old called politics a "very depressing world, in my opinion.Tawdry.
And that has no appeal to me."He also declined to tell the outlet who he was backing for mayor in Los Angeles this November."I haven’t thought about being asked that.I don’t know if, given this movie, my endorsement harms or helps anybody," he admitted.
"I should stay agnostic, at least until the movie comes out."Affleck told Good Morning America on Wednesday that he believes the "collective bar for politics because of the way the political world has sort of evolved has gotten so low that there’s this kind of like, you know, people are just sort of looking for like just ‘Somebody shoot me straight.’’"FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS WANT MAJOR CHANGE AMID ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL DISCONTENTHe added that there’s a sense in the country, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican that "we’re not doing a very good job.We have a system that’s kind of failing us."Playing a man running for mayor taught him: "This is not all that much fun.
And it would be a hard way — you’re just raising money all the time."NETFLIX DROPS FULL TRAILER FOR BEN AFFLECK'S 'ANIMALS' AND EXPECTATIONS ARE ALREADY SOARINGBen Affleck plays a man running for mayor of ...