so Ben Affleck shut down production of a
movie for several days because he
refused to wear a Yankees hat Ben
Affleck sucks yeah so in the movie gone
girl a husband and his wife move from
New York City where they had been living
back to the husband's hometown in
Missouri the titular gone girl goes
missing and Ben Affleck's character the
husband becomes a suspect in the case
it's really big news spaces all over TV
and stuff and so there's the scene where
he's in an airport he doesn't want to be
noticed by paparazzi or anything so he
has a baseball cap and he like pulls it
down over his face David Fincher wanted
the character to wear a Yankees hat Ben
Affleck famously a big Red Sox fan
refused to wear a Yankees hat and this
apparently became a huge fight where
Fincher was like just where the Yankees
hat is important to the character and
Ben Affleck was like in real life I'm a
Red Sox fan and David Fincher was
probably like this is a real life here
actor do your job and Ben Affleck was
like I'm extremely rich I don't have to
listen to you and they went back and
forth and I don't know if he's
exaggerating but I think in the DVD
commentary Fincher said the fight went
on for four days for four days for four
days grown men over a hat over a hat and
production just came to a standstill yep
that's so cool okay you guys are both
big fans of teams like Joe I think of
you as a the biggest Falcons fan I know
and Mike you're wearing a Yankees hat
right now and I know you hate the Red
Sox yep so like what would it take you
guys are adults what would it take for
you to wear the garb of an opposing team
I would hate to wear a Red Sox hat but I
would do it for like eight dollars eight
dollars yeah if you I don't know if I
can you give change for twenty I'm not
exactly this is for Ben oh it's cold
see it's not that hard Ben yeah I did a
parade 20-meter for $20 the other thing
to me is like Ben Affleck is like all of
us a
adult person I can kind of see this
being a real Bugaboo if you're a little
kid I don't know man
I was I was a pretty [ __ ] kid when they
came to Fender I remember first
Superbowl Falcons are getting tossed by
the Broncos right yeah everybody's in
the Falcons gear I'm in my like Falcons
Jersey I run to my room find the
brightest orange shirt that I possibly
could write I throw that [ __ ] on I come
back
run to the day in their living room I'm
like let's go Broncos and in my whole
family's like let me like and I and you
don't do that now no we're not doing it
now I came maybe like 13 12 or 13 I was
like okay I recognize what I did was a
big [ __ ] move and I would not do that
every game what if you were getting paid
10 million dollars then yes then I would
do that so he gets paid millions of
dollars right to act it's a profession
like it's a thing that you do to pretend
and he's probably done way worse things
or things that like more compromised his
morals or what he would normally do yeah
he read the daredevil script the movie
showed his dick and gone he did hey that
would that's the line he drew he was
this like yank hat no my dick yeah sure
whatever I feel like he's doing it just
so like everyone's uncle that's at the
bar in downtown Boston at like 3 o'clock
in the afternoon can talk about it like
oh do the biggest fan Ben Affleck he
wouldn't be shut down at David Fincher
production I don't know if that was the
right accident I've never been there
that sounds about right I still remember
like what he decided to ruin the Batman
franchise and then like he was in an
interview with Henry Cavill and there's
like that video clip where you just zoom
in on like the sadness in his eyes and
it's like yes Ben no one liked you as
Batman and now we have a good visual
proof that it actually hurts you that
you well that's interesting because I
think what he had in mind and not
wearing and Yankees had is that he
didn't want to be a meme mm-hmm what is
it like yeah he's mean multiple times
now has he not seen that impact
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one where Phoenix is literally rising
from his [ __ ] what was that final
resolution of this weird oh that's a
good that's important actually so if you
think of the alternatives like he's not
gonna wear a Red Sox hat that doesn't
make sense it's a family that moved from
New York to Missouri at what point would
he have picked up a Red Sox hat just a
generic hat would be kind of weird so
the compromise that got gone girl
production back on track was he wore a
Mets hat I think that David Fincher was
trying to do something very specific by
having this character who in the movie
is kind of an [ __ ] he's cheating on
his wife he's like this big shot to have
him wear a Yankees hat when he's trying
to conceal his face in the airport I
think is a trait a Mets hat says
something completely different
so all Mets fans are descendants of
Brooklyn Dodgers fans no one moves to
New York and adopts the Mets there's no
one there's no one new that's been added
to that fan base since then it's it's
just basically passed on it's like a
gene like a a really bad gene you sure
just gave him like a NYPD hat yeah well
I like a plain blue maybe hat he is
under investigation for the possible
murder of his wife in the movie okay I
don't like then he can blend in yeah
they were the cops would a guilty man
wear this but are all the cops I'll cop
undercover cops I feel like we're
Yankees acts right Yankees hat is the
most undercover cop hat I used to work
in Yellowstone and they employ a lot of
people that are like running from the
law kind of okay so I was hanging out
with some people like in the woods and I
actually I was wearing a Yankee had I
don't know if it was this one or not
and I convinced one of the guys that I
was an undercover cop well I was hinting
at it and I one of the things that I
used to convince him I was like every
undercover cop wears the Yankees hat
because I was trying to make him like
feel uncomfortable and like that was the
part that he was like maybe he's not
joking like that was the one that now
it's real
he is wearing a hat maybe is a cop you
kind of mean that's what I've heard
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