Been waiting for his reaction for ages. The Hollywood has a word or few sentences for those staging protest and dropping petitions to reject him as Batman. Speaking with Jimmy Fallon on a US talk show, the Argo star said he saw it coming and had even been warned ahead.

"They called me up and said, 'Do you wanna do this?' And I thought, 'Well, I'm not 25, man. Are you sure about this?

They said Listen, we want to talk to you because people go through this process and it can be trying. I said, 'What do you mean?' 'We want to show you some of the reactions that past people who have been cast have gotten, like on the internet and stuff.'"

The award-winning actor continued, "They send me [reactions for] people who were in these movies who did a great job and they'd say, 'Kill himmmm! You can't say that before a movie comes out. It doesn't matter what you think then, it matters what you think when you see the movie."

On how he was able to handle the protest, he said, "I'm a big boy. They said just don't use the internet for a couple of days… I handle s**t. I'm very tough. I saw the announcement, I look down on the first comment … the first one just goes, 'Nooooooooo!.

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