Film 831: The Town
Trivia: Jeremy Renner decided to
surround himself with actual convicted bank robbers in Charlestown for research
reasons and to help him nail the accent.
Originally set to be directed
by Adrian Lyne, but he had a
falling out with Warner Bros., so they asked Ben Affleck to step in.
Slaine (Gloansy) was a
concession seller at Fenway Park as a teenager. He described going back there
to shoot the film as "surreal."
Director/star Ben Affleck was most concerned
that the actors not have phony sounding Boston accents. When Blake Lively read for the part
of Krista, she sounded so authentic that he asked her what part of Boston she
grew up in. She was born and raised in California.
In the novel, Krista was
supposedly to be in her early 30s, but Ben Affleck cast Blake Lively mainly because he
was bowled over by her performance in her previous film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.
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