Jennifer Garner - Jen in the Media #14: because we love our Jen news!

**Ellie** · 05-06-2009, 04:16 PM

Latest news...

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Here are some pictures from Jen at the State of the World's Mothers Report:
Jen Garner NET Gallery - 2009 The State Of The World's Mothers Report

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Interview with Jen:
Jennifer Garner: Actress with the ex factor - Features, Films - The Independent

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Jen & Violet grocery shopping in Boston:
Jennifer Garner is Whole Foods Flowery | Ben Affleck, Celebrity Babies, Jennifer Garner, Seraphina Affleck, Violet Affleck : Just Jared

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Here is the video in 2 parts:
Cele|bitchy Blog Archive Jennifer Garner says daughter Violet helped name her sister Seraphina

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Jennifer Garner Celebrates InStyle Cover Girl Status | Jennifer Garner : Just Jared

**broken|smile** · 05-07-2009, 12:37 AM

thanks for the new thread

love seeing so much news

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Marnie · 05-07-2009, 12:39 PM

Jen takes her girls to the park:
NO BIG SCREEN BENNIFER IN STORE - Faded Youth Blog
I see that we have a new thread for Jen in the media.

Look at that pic, I remember when little Vi had to be held on the slide, and here she is like a big girl on her own:
Violet and Seraphina Affleck: Park Play! - Photo Gallery | Just Jared

**Ellie** · 05-07-2009, 03:32 PM

Thanks for those, Marnie! And it's cool to see Violet all grown up now and doing things herself!

***KervyQT16*** · 05-07-2009, 03:56 PM

It is cute that's she's grown up enough to do things for herself, she looks so determined on that slide. Aww...

**Ellie** · 05-08-2009, 05:14 AM

She does! I really can't believe how big she is now.

***KervyQT16*** · 05-08-2009, 03:55 PM

Small article:

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There’s nothing like a little healthy sibling rivalry to spur you on to greatness, according to Jennifer Garner. As one of Hollywood’s top actresses, Garner, 37, enjoys all the trappings of fame including a new $17m mansion, a lucrative celebrity endorsement with Neutrogena and two children with her husband, Ben Affleck.

Yet remarkably, it’s her big sister, Melissa, 40, whom she credits for her success.

“If I’m totally honest, I wouldn’t be where I am today if it wasn’t for the fact that I have this bigger-than-life, incredible older sister,” says the actress, who also has a younger sister, Susannah, 34. “She’s beautiful, and she was valedictorian, got a 1600 on her SATs [the top score on the US high school exams] and was the head majorette. I was just the middle kid, kind of looking for attention. So that’s what drove me, I think, to do things she wasn’t doing.”

The daughter of a chemical engineer father and English teacher mother, she was a chemistry major at Denison University before she surprised her family by suddenly switching to a drama degree. “I just realized that I liked drama more than science. At the time, I planned a career in the theatre; I didn’t even consider film or TV,” says Garner, who went on to study at the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut, before moving to New York where she earned $150 a week as a theatre understudy.

“I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life,” she says. “Even when I was studying acting, I wouldn’t even go into the film department of my school. I was only about the stage. I was a total snob. And then when I moved to New York and was trying to get a job on stage, and was broke and got offered a TV movie, I was like, ‘Hot dog, put me in front of that camera. Let’s do it!’ And now that it has continued to evolve, I still love my job.

“Also, just looking at it as a working mum, there are a lot of great things about what I do. I work really intensely for a while but in a way and in a place where people are very respectful of me and of my kids. Also, if I need to take a break and feed a baby, they let me, which isn’t always the case for women in the corporate world. I have help and I have the support that I need. I have a great partner in raising kids, too, and he’s super involved and there with me. On top of that, I just got to take nine months off from work. I mean, who gets to do that? So it’s so far, so good.”

After winning roles in the TV series Time of Your Life and Felicity, she got her first major film break starring as Ashton Kutcher’s girlfriend in the forgettable Dude, Where’s My Car? But it was her role as Sydney Bristow in the spy drama Alias which brought her to Hollywood’s attention: Garner eventually moved to Los Angeles to capitalise on film opportunities with roles in Catch Me If You Can, 13 Going on 30, The Kingdom and Juno.

Currently starring opposite Matthew McConaughey in the romantic comedy Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, she plays a single career girl, nursing a broken heart.

In real life she has no such romantic woes. She is happily married to Ben Affleck, with whom she has two daughters – Violet, three, and Seraphina, three months. Married for four years, she clearly never viewed her husband as a tough catch, despite the fact that his former romantic baggage includes Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Lopez. If other women might have been more wary, instead she reveals: “I’ve never had a problem resisting somebody that I knew was going to break my heart. Going after the “bad guy” has not been a real issue for me. One thing that I liked about this role was that it sounded like a version of conversations I’ve had with tons of girlfriends where it’s just: ’stay away from him!’”

Having previously starred alongside her future husband twice within the space of two years in Pearl Harbor and Daredevil, she’s adamant that she won’t be signing up any time soon to work with Affleck, saying today:. “No, no, no. It doesn’t work,” she says, refraining from any overt reference to her husband’s personal foray into that realm five years earlier with then-fiancée Jennifer Lopez, together co-starring in the poorly-received films Gigli and Jersey Girl. “It would just feel so incredibly weird. I couldn’t do a scene with him for all the tea in China.”

Garner is that rare celebrity who is unwilling to milk her marriage and private life in exchange for column inches: “The rule with marriage is the less you talk about it the better. Same with my kids. I believe that they – even though the rest of the world doesn’t necessarily believe this – have a right to their own privacy. Ben can take it. He doesn’t care, but as far as the intricacies of our relationship and family, that’s something that automatically makes me go ‘Ewwww… ‘”

In Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, McConaughey plays a womanising glamour photographer forced to confront the women whose hearts he’s broken – Garner’s character being one of them.

Ask the actress if there’s any heartbroken men from her own past to whom she might wish to apologise, and she’s quite firm. “Only if you need to apologise for growing up and making mistakes and learning just basic things,” says Garner, who was 28 when she wed fellow actor Scott Foley, divorcing two-and-a-half years later.

If Garner has suffered any career disappointment, then it was 12 years ago when she worked with Woody Allen on Deconstructing Harry. “I seriously worked on the film for maybe two weeks – and then I was not in the movie. I was in awe the day that I was asked, so of course I would love to work with him again – although I don’t know if he would remember me since he cut me out of the movie.”

Next up, she stars in The Invention of Lying, due out later this year, a comedy written, directed and starring Ricky Gervais. “Ricky is very specific about things, although the worst thing about him as a director is that if something is funny at all – and it was very improvisational – he breaks and laughs and ruins your take. I would say to him, ‘It’s your movie, but can you just leave? Maybe just go into another room?’ But he knew exactly what he wanted.”

-Independent UK

**DanceWithLife** · 05-08-2009, 07:01 PM

Thank you for that article!

**Ellie** · 05-08-2009, 08:39 PM

Jennifer Garner & Ben Affleck: Family Friday!

The Fab four!

***KervyQT16*** · 05-09-2009, 07:12 PM

I think Sera looks more like Ben.

johnnya2k8 · 05-10-2009, 11:29 PM

Sexiest Woman of 2009 Round 2 (Seniors): Vote for Jen if she wants to be in the next round!

**Ellie** · 05-11-2009, 05:48 PM

I think she does look a lot like Ben. And thanks for that link, johnnya2k8!

***KervyQT16*** · 05-11-2009, 11:29 PM

I voted, I don't think it'll help but I did vote.

I like that one girl will look like Ben and one like her too, I have no idea why but I'm partial to the idea.

**Ellie** · 05-12-2009, 04:32 AM

I like that too, it's worked out evenly! Violet's such a mini Jen, it's great that Sera takes after Ben.

**Ellie** · 05-12-2009, 06:01 PM

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New Line celebrates 'Valentine's Day'
Garry Marshall to direct all-star cast in romantic comedy
By Borys Kit

May 11, 2009, 11:00 PM ET
New Line is putting together an all-star cast for its latest romantic comedy, "Valentine's Day," to be directed by Garry Marshall.

Julia Roberts, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Garner, Shirley MacLaine, Bradley Cooper and Ashton Kutcher are in final negotiations to star in the movie, which has five slightly interconnecting stories playing out during a Valentine's Day in Los Angeles.

A scorecard may be needed to keep track of the story lines:

-- Roberts is an army officer on leave from Iraq on a flight to L.A. Cooper, on the same flight, is a gay man whose lover is a closeted football player.

-- Kutcher is an owner of a flower shop who proposes to his girlfriend (Alba), only to realize he is in love with his close friend, played by Garner, who discovers her boyfriend is married.

-- MacLaine plays Roberts' mother, a happy retiree who reveals to her husband a long-ago affair.

-- Hathaway is an assistant working at the biggest talent agency in town and dating a mailroom assistant; Biel is a publicist unlucky in love (is there any other kind?) who has no date on Valentine's Day.

Major roles still to be cast are the gay football player, MacLaine's husband, the mailroom worker, a talent agent and a young boy looking to give his crush some flowers.

Mike Karz is producing along with Wayne Rice.

Sam Brown and Michael Disco are overseeing for the studio. Katherine Fugate wrote the initial draft, while Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein penned the latest.

New Line had success with its recent ensemble romance "He's Just Not That Into You," but "Valentine" is more ambitious in scope and cast. The project, which could be compared to "Love, Actually," has already upped the budget from its initial $25 million to the mid-$30 million-dollar range, though New Line would not comment on the dealmaking or the budget.

New Line celebrates 'Valentine's Day'

Oh my, that would be exciting if that happens! I mean, Jen with Bradley and Anne, and even Julia Roberts! that makes me all excited. Though, I guess the storylines wouldn't cross over that much, but gosh, it does sound like a nice movie and I always enjoy Garry Marshall's work.