Matt Damon and Casey Affleck may be Academy Award-winning actors, but standing on the field at Fenway Park on Saturday afternoon, they looked just like any other lifelong Red Sox fans living out the ultimate dream.

Because they were exactly that.

“It’s incredible,” Affleck said as he leaned on the Red Sox dugout railing. “Every single time I come here, it’s like a dream come true, revisiting my childhood fantasies.”

“Yeah, literally, especially because when we grew up, it was impossible to even imagine getting this close to the field,” echoed Damon. “I remember the first time I got, I walked into the park, and I’d never seen grass that green.”

“How old were you” Affleck interjected.

“I think I was eight the first time my dad took me,” said Damon, “and I just couldn’t believe how perfect the field was. I’d never seen a field that beautiful before.”

“Yeah, really,” Affleck responded. “I think the first time I ever got to see a game here is, I was working outside of the park and I gave the guy at the turnstile a sausage, and he let me in and I found a seat and watched the game. So I was probably in eighth grade. Amazing.”

Damon hails from Cambridge, Affleck was born in Falmouth. When his family later moved to Cambridge, elder brother Ben became classmates and lifelong friends with Damon. The younger Affleck and Damon were in town to promote their new Apple TV+ film, ‘The Instigators,’ which is partially set at the historic ballpark and features several Boston landmarks.

“To have shot here, shot part of the movie, and then be able to come out and have a catch, that’s unbelievable,” said Damon. “We got to go into the Monster and throw our John Hancock in there, so that was cool. … I think (the film has) a Boston sensibility, so I think people from here will dig it.”

Damon wore a retro-style Red Sox tee, and both men accessorized with classic blue baseball caps bearing the club’s iconic red ‘B.’ Damon chatted with Lucas Giolito, before posing for photos with mascot siblings Wally and Tessie. Damon – a Dunkin’ spokesman – donned a bright orange and pink Dunkin’ windbreaker to match those worn by the fuzzy green monsters. Then, Damon and Affleck played catch and took batting practice, before throwing out a pair of ceremonial first pitches.

“All we’re thinking about is, we don’t want to throw the ball in the dirt,” said Damon, who said he last threw out a first pitch at Fenway in 2004. “So many people are calling with unhelpful suggestions.”

“Most of them say ‘Throw a strike,’ which isn’t that helpful,” added Affleck.

“I was so paranoid about throwing it in the dirt, I threw it a little high,” Damon recalled of the ’04 experience. “Johnny Damon bailed me out, he kind of jumped and caught it. Made it look like I meant to do that.”

Both stars remain diehard Red Sox fans, and said they watch when their schedules allow. Neither can believe it’s been 20 years since the ’04 ‘Idiots’ reversed the curse.

“Went by in a blink,” Damon said. “I remember standing on Boylston Street, crying like a baby while those guys went by in the duckboat, and then I ran down to the river and watched ’em go into the Charles. …What it did for me personally, but I think what did for everybody in the city, it was like… this incredible weight lifted off everybody.”

“My first child was born in 2004 right before they won, and then my second was born in ’07,” Affleck said. “So I started to think that maybe I just had to keep having kids.”

And like any true Red Sox fan, the their hatred of the Yankees still runs deep.

“Hopefully after last night, we can keep that momentum, and beat the ‘Evil Empire’ again tonight,” Damon said with a grin.