Howdy.
Hi, Ben.
Hi.
How are you?
I'm great.
How are you?
Very good.
I have not seen you-- you have not been on this show
in five years.
I can't believe that's true.
It is true.
It is the truth.
That's my publicist's fault.
Yes, and I need their personal number so I-- because--
They're back there.
We can get them--
All right.
--when they come out.
Because seriously, Gone Girl was brilliant
and Argo was brilliant.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations on that.
Thank you very much, very much.
From now on, that's it.
Just this show.
In fact, only this show.
That's a good idea.
Any movie that comes out-- why do anything else?
Exactly.
You know what I mean?
This is the most fun place to be.
Why would you want to be anywhere else?
This is it.
I'm done.
No seriously, every time I call and I go,
why isn't Ben on this--
I love those-- I loved everything you--
and beautiful directing, beautiful directing.
Thank you very much.
Now I'm saying all this, and I'm angry with you because--
No, I can feel it, the passive-aggressive.
It's welling up.
It's underneath.
You know how much I love you.
I think you're an amazing person and talented.
And this is where the pain comes.
Here it comes.
So you haven't been here for five years.
I have a giant billboard outside that is normally there--
And it looks great.
Yeah, it did.
It used to look great.
It was that, and now this is what the side of the building
is-- the entire--
That's the thing people don't know.
They come to me about the billboards.
They say, should we Big Bang Theory, up or down?
You know what I mean?
Justice League-- should we put that one back up?
And I'm the guy they go to shuffle the--
I did not realize that.
--billboards, yes.
So I called them.
I said, just all me this time, guys.
The entire building.
Wallpaper it.
Yeah.
Well, it's an important movie, and I
understand why they do it.
Sure, just, we'll put you back up.
Thank you.
When?
When it's out.
After the movie comes out?
After it's been out for a couple of weeks.
After people have seen it?
After everyone's seen it.
Wow, OK.
Y'all better go see that movie.
So I know it's been kind of a challenging year, obviously.
And what I love is-- and I think what everybody loves--
is that you and Jen are putting the kids first.
And we see you with the kids all the time.
And I think that's the most important thing, and the most
important message to send to everybody.
Absolutely.
We're good friends, and we're doing our best.
And our kids are fabulous, and we're
working our best for them.
And that's the most important thing.
Yeah.
All right.
So let's talk about Batman.
Because, like I said, Argo and Gone Girl and everything you do
is-- and you're very busy.
So was it a decision to play Batman?
Did you think about it?
Did you think, why do I want to take this on?
Yeah, I mean, there were a couple of things.
One, I wouldn't have necessarily done
the sort of down the middle version of Batman,
but the director showed me--
his office is right next to yours, in fact.
I know.
Right over there.
It was Clooney's office before.
That's right.
And now it's Zack's.
And that was where I sort of went in and saw
this whole display of all this art and kind
of gave me this pitch of what is now
the movie, which is a much different kind of take
on Batman.
I wouldn't have wanted to try to copy what Chris Nolan
and Christian Bale did.
It's just so amazing, and those guys are geniuses.
And the idea was to try to do something different,
you know what I mean?
And I also thought it'd be great to have a movie.
The movies you mentioned are all R-rated movies.
I haven't done anything that my kids could see for a long time.
So I thought that would be kind of cool, you know.
Well, they must think it's cool.
My son thinks it's cool.
Yeah.
My son thinks it's really cool.
I mean, you're Batman.
Yeah, he's--
Did he visit you on set?
Did he see you?
He came.
He came to the set.
He saw me.
He was a little bit suspicious too.
He was like, is that the real Superman?
Yes, he is.
That's more or less about as real as it gets.
That's the real Superman.
How old is he?
He's four.
So he, to him, that's the real Superman.
When I leave, he's like, dad, you're going to the Batcave?
You know what I mean?
And I can't, I'm like yes, I am.
And now I know eventually he's going to be in therapy,
like, you lied to me.
There's no Batcave!
You're doing Ellen!
Oh no.
He thinks I'm in the Batcave now, right?
I don't know.
Oh no.
Did you have to build a Batcave at home
so that he-- or you just go away to the Batcave?
I say, dad's got to go away now.
And he goes, you're going to the Batcave.
And I'm, that's right, Batcave.
Watch out for the Joker.
I'm like, I'll look out for him, big guy.
Don't worry.
Oh, that's adorable.
It's unbelievable.
It's the whole--
The cutest thing in the world.
It's like a movie by itself.
Except it's mitigated by my oldest daughter, who's
not a big-- as my son says, can you
believe she doesn't like superheroes?
She's a big Harry Potter fan.
It would have been a bigger deal if I
was one of the gnomes in the background at the bank in Harry
Potter.
That would have been impressive to her.
But she's just, like--
Well, there's still time.
Yes.
Yeah, maybe there'll be a spinoff of gnomes or something
like that.
You never know.
We'll make sure to take your poster down when we do it.
Yeah.
No, no, we won't.
So we had-- how do you pronounce her name--
"Gol" or "Gal"
"Gal."
Gal-- Gal Godot.
We had her on the show yesterday.
And she is Wonder Woman, right?
Yes.
So now is she a love interest in the movie for you?
She's not really.
She has her own movie that she's shooting that's going to be--
and she's amazing in our movie.
She's incredible.
She's not really a love interest for my character.
We're--
Aaah!
[SCREAM]
I was genuinely scared by that.
That's what you get.
This is your reaction.
This was perfect.
--for my character.
We're--
Aah!
[SCREAM]
Isn't that fun?
That's great.
Yeah.
You'll show that to your son.
Yes, exactly.
No, no, he's gone now.
That's it?
That's all the-- good.
No.
All right.
OK.