Ben Affleck says political 'hypocrisy, corruption and failure' left him 'disillusioned'

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 thats enormously — I dont know, man, that seems terrible," Affleck told the outlet while promoting a new movie in which he plays a candidate for L.A. mayor. "Theres 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."

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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 this November.

"I havent thought about being asked that. I dont 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 theres this kind of like, you know, people are just sort of looking for like just Somebody shoot me straight."

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He added that theres a sense in the country, whether youre a Democrat or a Republican that "were not doing a very good job. We have a system thats 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 — youre just raising money all the time."

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He said that he and the man playing his campaign manager in the movie decided one day to take campaign shirts and hats with the name of his character, go out in L.A. and claim he was running for mayor.

When he told people he was running as his character, Affleck said voters would ask for a selfie, they seemed interested and "people would launch into their whole thing and I was like If Im not careful, Im going to win this.'"

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"Do not vote for me for mayor!" he joked to the camera.

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