Yes, that was an Islanders cap you saw on the head of the director if you happened upon filming of the Netflix movie “The Week Of” last summer in locations around Long Island.
And yes, it might partly have been a strategy to win over the locals.
“It was an element of kissing Long Island [expletive], I will confess that, the fact that I wore that particular cap every day,” Robert Smigel said, laughing, in an interview to promote the film’s premiere on Friday.