Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Renner says he wasn’t intimidated about working with ex-criminals in the making of his upcoming movie.

"There’s the main cast, then everyone else in it was a bank robber, or currently a bank robber," he told Total Film magazine.

Jeremy plays bank robber Jem Coughlin in soon-to-be-released movie The Town, directed by and starring Ben Affleck. The gritty movie is set in the Boston town of Charlestown, an area famed for criminal activity, as it follows a team of bank robbers being pursued by the FBI.

To make the movie more believable and add some extra tension to filming, Ben cast ex-convicts in the movie, but didn’t tell anybody who they were.

The presence of former criminals on set didn’t worry Jeremy, who says he got along well with everybody in the movie and understood the ex-convicts’ desire to commit crime.

"There’s the main cast, then everyone else in it was a bank robber, or currently a bank robber," he told Total Film magazine.

"They’re not murderers. I mean, some of them are, but these guys are just going in to get some money. Their whole thinking was like, ‘That’s our money in there, let’s go get it!’ They have a real kind of jovial thing about them."

To maximize their accents and performances, Jeremy revealed that he and Ben hung out around prisons too.

"When it came to the accent and things like that we didn’t want to sound like a real polished kind of thing - we just hung around people, criminals, prison-to kind of get a sense of it, you know?" Jeremy explained. "We were all pretty adamant about keeping the movie as authentic as we could."


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