Earlier this year, it was announced that J.K. Simmons, who is best known to comic book fans for playing J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies, has joined Justice League to portray Commissioner Gordon.
In previous interviews, the actor revealed that his iconic DC Comics supporting character won't have a big role in the upcoming November 17, 2017 release, but will eventually make more significant contributions in future DC Extended Universe installments.
Now, in a more recent interview with Entertainment Tonight, Simmons confirms that he has wrapped up filming for Justice League:
My part is done. They are filming that for basically most of 2016, so some of the superheroes are still at work in jolly old London, but I’m back home with my family.
Most of J.K. Simmons’ scenes in Justice League are with Ben Affleck! (Photo Credit – DCEU Wikia)
Since Commissioner Gordon is a character from Batman comics, one would assume that most of his scenes in Justice League are with Ben Affleck. The Academy Award winning actor confirms that too during the interview. He says:
Yeah, mostly with Ben. In this first installment of the Justice League, Commissioner Gordon is not a particularly sizable part. We just kind of introduce him and see a little bit of his interactions with Batman – and with most of the Justice League.
Simmons claims that the DCEU venture has "a really fun set" and that Zack Snyder runs "sort of a big, happy family". He suggests that such a "big, giant movie" has a very different work environment compared to a relatively small movie like The Meddler, in which he also appears.
However, according to the 61-year-old-actor, the one thing that Zack Snyder and the other project's director Lorene Scafaria have in common is "they're just nice, smart, competent, fun people that you don't mind spending a 12-hour day with".
Lorene is reportedly one of the directors shortlisted as contenders for helming Captain Marvel. When Simmons is asked about how the director would handle such a big superhero movie if she were hired, the actor confidently says that she would do "really, really well with anything".
During the interview, the actor also comments that Susan Sarandon, his co-star from The Meddler and also an Academy Award winner, would make "an excellent supervillain"!
