Blake Lively (“Gossip Girl”) and Chris Cooper (Syriana) are the latest to sign on to Ben Affleck’s crime thriller The Town, said The Hollywood Reporter last week. She will play the ex-girlfriend to Affleck’s bank robber and the troubled sister of one of Affleck’s team members while Cooper is in negotiations to play Affleck’s father.
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