Perhaps it's the nun masks that most people remember about the Ben Affleck directed Boston crime movie, The Town. After all, when Ben and Jeremy Renner pull up to rob a bank while wearing those masks, it's utterly disturbing. But the violent and intricate climax of the movie was also memorable. Mostly because it took place at one of America's most iconic venues... Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox.

Given that many of Ben Affleck's best movies take place in or around Boston, it makes sense that he would eventually want to feature one of the city's most epic landmarks. While there are many interesting facts about Ben Affleck's movie roles, how he as an actor, co-writer, and director managed to secure and shoot in such a massive, expensive, and downright busy venue.

Here's the down-low on how he did it...

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The Heist At The Venue Was Absolutely Essential For Ben

Not only was the heist at Fenway Park included in Chuck Hogan's original novel that the movie was based on, Ben knew that including it in his movie would make it even more special. And given that The Town is absolutely a Boston movie, the home of the Red Sox had to be featured.

But staging the heist scene and the violent confrontation with the police and the FBI in and around the Park was absolutely unprecedented. Thanks to a wonderfully eye-opening oral history of the movie by The Ringer, Ben and the cast and crew of the movie shed some light on how they were able to pull this off.

"I made sure that we had enough money to do the Fenway heist sequence in total, which was a lot," Ben Affleck told The Ringer. "And we had a lot of days for a movie that was relatively inexpensive. The way we did that was to make the days inexpensive. That was sort of the trick. It’s something I’ve seen other directors do. David Fincher does an even more exaggerated version of that. He often has a very small crew. Gone Girl we shot a hundred days for a two-hour thriller."

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Luckily Ben had a good relationship with the Boston Red Sox so he was able to open the door at Fenway Park. Producer David Crockett was particularly worried about how they were going to do this but Ben used his Boston credibility and his celebrity status to strike a deal to shoot there.... and even drive an armored car out of one of their gates...

"The Red Sox were really smart and understood how vital and central their organization was and is to the city, and they loved the idea of it," Ben said. "And Major League Baseball was open to it—that was what I was really afraid of. But the Red Sox were definitely in the spirit of, 'This is gonna be fun. It’s a fun heist movie.' [Owner] John Henry visited the set. [Chairman] Tom Werner’s a friend of mine. They were excited."

The Vice President of Marketing and Broadcasting for the Boston Red Sox, Colin Burch, was also open to The Town filming at Fenway due to the fact that many other films had done the same. This includes movies like Moneyball, RIPD, Ted, and Fever Pitch. However, due to how full-on the action was at the end of the film, this was by far the biggest movie shot there at the time.

What Was It Like Filming At Fenway

Filming The Town at Fenway Park happened during the off days of the baseball season in September 2009. The whole thing took approximately 15 days to do.

"There’s nothing weirder than an empty stadium," actor Jon Hamm explained. "Especially when you’re in a park that’s not open to the public. So we had access to all of the underneath [of it], because that’s where we shot a lot of it. It was wild. It definitely felt like, I’m getting to see something that not a lot of people get to see."

Owen Burke, who played Desmond Elden, claimed that walking around the empty stadium was absolutely surreal.

"It kind of had a post-apocalyptic feeling to it. If the world was empty, what would you do? I’d go sit in Fenway and be the only guy there," Owen claimed.

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As for Owen's on-screen accomplice, Sloane (who played Gloansy), shooting at Fenway was even crazier. This is because he had worked at Fenway Park when he was a kid. This was his first movie role and he got to go to the abandoned stadium and start shooting machine guns... Nuts!

But the violence was easily the hardest part to shoot logistically, according to the Red Sox's Vice President of Marketing and Broadcasting, Colin Burch.

"When they’re down in Gate D, where the shoot-out scene was before they exited the ballpark, that was probably the most challenging part of it," Colin Burch said. "Because you’re in a confined space, not a soundstage. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. Just because the echo in the ballpark. When you’re underneath in the concourse space, you could drop a keg at one end of the ballpark and have it reverberate all the way around."

However, filming in the space worked perfectly for the movie and gave Ben Affleck exactly what he wanted out of the film.

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