As Ben Affleck’s crime thriller turns 10, it’s time to celebrate these equally iconic performances.
What does greatness look like?
But, exactly 10 years ago, it came via two surprising vessels:Jeremy RennerandBlake LivelyinThe Town.
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1 on the call sheet of pre-FargoNoah Hawley’s short-lived cop proceduralThe Unusuals.
“I need your help.
It’s so good and unexplainable that that Jem gem had to have been an improv by Renner.
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Like finishing a marathon and being told now you’ve got to go back and run it again.
Yes, you get the sense that he’s not f—ing around.
Okay, enough of the appetizer, it’s time for the main course.
Do you ever love something so much and can’t understand how not everyone else feels the same way?
That is me with two things:Hitchand Blake Lively inThe Town.
For those of you unfamiliar with Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway’s rom-com, that is not a compliment.
“Do I look like I got in a fight?”
she says with a winning swagger.
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’d be ready to throw away my life for Kris.
And obviously she was really attractive, and so I thought, Oh, here comes some blond girl.
She came in, did one reading, and just crushed it.
Like, Boston accentreally good.
I was sort of stunned.
I said, ‘Jeez, you know, that was really f—ing good.
Who are you?’
She didn’t mention that she was on a television show.”
Thank you Ben for mentioning the accent, of which Lively went all-in on.
Doesn’t mean you’re getting f—ed, though.
You got to chase the rabbit if you want the tail."
