Overview
- Affleck revisited the on-set dispute during a recent interview with The Rip co-stars, where a question about Boston sports prompted the story.
- Matt Damon joked that Affleck shut down production, while Affleck said the delay followed the director’s insistence on a Yankees hat.
- Affleck said he refused out of loyalty to the Boston Red Sox and concern that wearing a Yankees cap would create distracting backlash.
- Filming resumed after a negotiated compromise that put a New York Mets cap on his character instead of the Yankees version.
- Affleck has called it the only real fight he had with director David Fincher and described his stand as a “one-man riot against the Yankees.”