Ben Affleck In 'Gone Girl' Refused to Wear New York Yankees Cap As A Boston Red Sox Fan

When Ben Affleck was asked by his Gone Girl director, David Fincher, to wear a New York Yankees baseball cap in the movie, which hit theaters today, the actor respectfully declined.

"That was the only fight David and I had," Affleck told The New York Times, "and it was a legitimate fight."

Affleck is, after all, a Boston native and a die-hard Red Sox fan, and there's just no way he was going to do that to himself.

According to the Times, there's a scene in the movie that takes place in a New York City airport, and Affleck's character, Nick Dunne, wears a baseball cap in an attempt to go unrecognized in the crowd. Fincher suggested a Yankees cap because he felt that's what would work best for the movie. Affleck said no way.

"I said, 'David, I love you, I would do anything for you,'" Affleck recalled. "'But I will not wear a Yankees hat. I just can't. I can't wear it because it's going to become a thing, David. I will never hear the end of it. I can't do it.' And I couldn't put it on my head."

Fincher, apparently, put forth his best effort in trying to convince Affleck that the navy blue and white cap with the interlocking "NY" was essential to the scene, but it just wasn't happening.

"It was an uprising; it was a coup, I rioted," Affleck told the New York-based paper. "It was a one-man riot against the Yankees."

So, in a move that Affleck called "very Switzerland," the actor and director came to a compromise after ""a lot of shuttle diplomacy, so much back-and-forth," and Affleck did what any good Yankee hater would do: he wore a Mets cap.