Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla recently stated he watches The Town four times a week, and following the team's Game 6 win over the Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference finals of the 2023 NBA Playoffs, the film started trending on Twitter. One of the most iconic scenes in the movie is when Blake Lively and Ben Affleck's characters have sex, an awkward moment to shoot, according to the actress.
Affleck, 50, not only directed The Town, but he also took on the lead role of Doug MacRay, a bank robber torn between choosing his criminal friends and a woman from one of their heists with whom he falls in love.
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Lively, 35, portrays Krista Coughlin, MacRay's wife, who soon realizes he does not love her during the memorable sex scene.
The sex scene is a pivotal moment in the film, effectively ending the intense connection between the two characters.
Lively and Affleck's convincing performances in the film make for an emotionally charged atmosphere that gives the sex scene a reason in the story.
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Ryan Reynolds, Lively's husband, once joked that fans confuse him for Affleck, which makes the sex scene comical in a sense.
Reynolds, 46, joked that he doesn't have the heart to tell people he's not Affleck and that they even ask how Jennifer Lopez is doing.
"There's a pizza place in the East Village in New York that I've been going to for years," Reynolds said. "They believe I'm Ben Affleck and I've never corrected them. I feel it would not go over well if I revealed.
"I do everything normal like everybody else. They just think I'm Ben Affleck and they'll ask how J.Lo is and I'm like, 'great, good.' I get the pizza and off I go."
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