Matt Damon & Casey Affleck On A Possible ‘The Instigators’ Sequel At Apple, Streaming’s Future, Their Chemistry & Some Serious Fenway Park Love
deadline.com“Speaking hypothetically, what would happen if a Yankees fan yelled ‘Bucky Fucking Dent’ as you are in your windup to throw out the first pitch today,” I ask Matt Damon as he marinates in the anxiety of Jason Bourne screwing it up on the mound in front of a sellout crowd at Fenway Park.
He doesn’t miss a beat: “I guess I’ll be throwing at your head, Mike.” We are at Fenway on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon, in which a Red Sox-Yankees contest has turned into a celebration for the Apple TV+ release of The Instigators.
That comedy has proved itself an example of a moderately priced film that can be a victory for a big streamer, armed with clever marketing that included the above Dunkin’ Donuts commercial spoof which exploded virally and helped drive the film to become one of Apple TV+’s most watched films.
On this day, Damon and Casey Affleck lived out any Boston-bred kid’s fantasy camp dream of joining the Red Sox in batting practice and aiming for the famed left field wall (Green Monstah is what Bostonian’s call it).
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