And though Fincher claimed production was halted for several days regarding the dispute, the Armageddon actor recalled it being “all of 20 minutes.”
Then finally, Affleck says that Fincher approached him for a compromise.
“He was like, ‘What about the Mets?’” Affleck recalled. “I was like, ‘All right, sure man. F–k it.’”
“It was an uprising; it was a coup, I rioted,” Affleck told the New York Times. “It was a one-man riot against the Yankees.”
But even back then, Affleck did give Fincher his gratitude for letting him sport a Mets cap in the scene. As he put it, “That was very Switzerland.”
