Actress skillfully dodges our Ben Affleck-vs.-Matt Damon question by opting for Jason Bourne. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Josh Horowitz Blake Lively Photo: MTV News Ben Affleck’s Boston-based, true life-inspired bank-heist flick “The Town.” is a far cry from the first time audiences experienced Affleck’s Beantown love in “Good Will Hunting,” given the new film’s intensity and violence. But the fact that the film is set in Boston and directed by Affleck tugs a bit on our nostalgic Will Hunting-loving hearts. As such, when MTV News caught up with “The Town” co-star Blake Lively recently, we couldn’t help but ask: Back in the “Good Will Hunting” days, was she Team Ben or Team Matt? Fans might expect Lively to side with her director, but she chose one of Matt Damon’s characters instead. “Jason Bourne,” she said, referencing the “Bourne” trilogy’s hero. “I’ve never met [Damon], but he was told of my obsession with Jason Bourne — but not [with] Matt,” she clarified. “Matt’s an amazing actor, incredible, but Jason Bourne? Come on. That’s it.” Lively said she used her admitted obsession with the “Town” director’s BFF to her advantage. “I actually teased Ben. Ben likes to tell the story that one day he was referencing Matt, and I said, ‘Oh, you know Matt Damon?’ I was teasing him,” she insisted. “But I never let on that I was teasing him and just made him feel old.” Regarding her love for Affleck, who the 23-year-old called “Mr. Boston,” Lively said half of the joy in filming the movie was in seeing how much the people of Boston love their successful son. “To get to work with him in a place that embraces him so much, the fact that we had access to Fenway Park, that’s something that’s pretty rare,” she said. “And the resources, the way people opened up their homes to him and to us, because it’s a movie he’s doing and they know he loves Boston and tells great stories about Boston — true stories — and so people were willing to open up to him because he has a respect for their community that they have so much pride in.” Check out everything we’ve got on “The Town.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: The Town
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