for several days because he refused to wear

a Yankees hat.

Ben Affleck sucks.

Yeah.

(melodic music)

So, in the movie Gone Girl,

a husband and his wife move from New York City

where they've 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, his face is all over TV and stuff.

And so there's this scene where he's in an airport,

he doesn't wanna 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 wear the Yankees hat,

"it's 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 isn't real life,

"you're a (bleep) 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?

Yup.

That's so cool of him.

You guys are both big fans of teams,

like Joe I think of you as the biggest Falcons fan I know,

and Mike, you're wearing a Yankees hat right now.

And I know you hate the Red Sox.

So like what would it take?

You guys are adults.

What would it take for you to wear the garment

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...

(laughing)

I don't know if I...

Do you have change for a 20?

No, I'm sorry.

I'll give you 20 bucks.

I'll give you 20 bucks.

It has to be exactly eight dollars.

20 bucks.

This is for Ben.

Oh it's cold.

(laughing)

See?

It's not that hard, Ben.

I did it for--

- [Seth] Yeah he got $20.

I did it for $20.

The other thing to me is like Ben Affleck is,

like all of us, a grown adult person.

I can kinda see this being a real bugaboo

if you're a little kid.

Ah, I dunno man.

I was a pretty s*** kid when it came to family.

I remember first Super Bowl,

Falcons were getting tossed by the Broncos, right?

Everybody's in their Falcons gear,

I'm in my Falcons jersey.

I run to my room, found the brightest orange shirt

that I possibly could.

I throw that s*** on, I come back,

run to the den or living room and I'm like,

"Let's go Broncos!"

And then my whole family's looking at me like I hate you.

And you wouldn't do that now.

No well not do that now.

I came maybe like 13, 12 or 13,

and I was like okay, I recognize what I did

was a big asshole move and I would not do that ever again.

What if you were getting paid $10 million?

Then yes.

Then I would do that.

So he gets paid millions of dollars, right, to act.

It's a profession, it's a thing that you do to pretend.

And he's probably done way worse things

or things that like more compromise his morals

or what he would normally do.

Yeah he read the Daredevil script.

- [Mike] And still did the movie.

And still did the movie.

And he showed his dick in Gone Girl.

- [Seth] He did!

He did.

That's the line he drew.

He was just like Yankee 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 three o'clock in the afternoon

can talk about it.

Like oh dude, the biggest fan, Ben Affleck,

he shut down a David Fincher production.

I don't know if that was the right accent.

I've never been there.

That sounds about right.

I still remember like when 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 like visual proof

that it actually hurts you that you (bleep) it up.

Well that's interesting because I think

what he had in mind in not wearing a Yankees hat

is that he didn't wanna be a meme.

Isn't he like--

Too late.

Yeah it's memed multiple times now.

Has he not seen that (bleep) back tattoo that he has?

(laughing)

The one where a phoenix is literally

rising from his a******.

What was that finally resolution of this weird problem?

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 kinda 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 asshole,

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 new that's been added to that fan base

since then.

I mean it's just basically passed on.

It's like a gene.

Like a really bad gene.

You should have just gave him like a NYPD hat,

or something though, like that.

- [Mike] Yeah, become a cop fan.

Or like a plain blue like navy hat.

He is under investigation for the possible murder

of his wife in the movie, so like...

Then he can blend in.

(laughing)

He can blend in with the cops.

- [Mike] Would a guilty man wear this hat?

But aren't all cops, all cops,

undercover cops I feel like wear Yankees hats.

Right?

The 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.

So I was hanging out with some people like in the woods,

and I was wearing a Yankee hat,

I don't know if it was this one or not,

and I convinced one of the guys that I was

an undercover cop, like I was hinting at it,

and one of the things that I used to convince him,

I was like, every undercover cop wears the Yankees hat.

I was trying to make him 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.

(laughing)

He is wearing a Yankee hat, maybe he is a cop.

You're kinda mean.

That's what I've heard.