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Mrs Ben Affleck on juggling fame and family

Posted by Ali in Apr 01,2013 with No Comments

Jennifer spoke with the Telegraph about finding a balance between work and family and having to deal with the paparazzi.

I just want to say that this article points out the main reasons why I refuse to post paparazzi pics on the site!

Jennifer Garner, the star of The Odd Life of Timothy Green, talks to Helena de Bertodano about Ben Affleck’s gossip-fuelling Oscars speech, why her career has taken a back seat to his (until now) and how she dealt with being stalked for seven years.

Jennifer Garner is on tenterhooks. She is sure she can hear rustling in the bushes around where we are sitting in the back garden of a house overlooking the Malibu coastline.

She stops talking mid-sentence and sits alert, like a startled animal ready to flee.
‘I thought I heard a paparazzi lens,’ she says, eyes scanning the thick shrubbery around the house (it’s rented for the photo-shoot).

Garner, 40, who stars in the new film The Odd Life of Timothy Green – a fantasy drama about a couple who long for a child and suddenly find themselves the parents of a magical boy – shrugs and starts talking again.

‘Usually I’d see the light on the lens so maybe it’s just the leaves.’ But she remains uneasy. ‘I could swear there is someone there.’

Since marrying the actor and director Ben Affleck nearly eight years ago, Garner has become one of the most photographed celebrities in America.

Although already known for her award-winning performance in the thriller drama series Alias, as well as films such as Pearl Harbor (2001) and Catch Me If You Can (2002), her union with Affleck – with whom she starred in Daredevil (2003) – took her into a whole new stratosphere of celebrity.

Pictures are published daily of her most mundane activities: taking her children to school, going to the gym, buying groceries.

‘Seven cars followed me when I left home at seven o’clock this morning,’ she says, referring to the paparazzi. ‘I wish I could say that it doesn’t bother me. But you wouldn’t like it if you had it, and neither would anyone else. They sit outside my house every day. They wait for me at school drop-off and pick-up.’

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Jennifer Garner on Obama: It’s complicated

Posted by Ali in Oct 12,2012 with No Comments

We know that Jennifer is a democrat and follows politics so while in Washington DC Politico asked her about Obama and the upcoming election.

Ben Affleck has mixed feelings about President Barack Obama, and so does his wife.

“My feelings are complicated as well, but I look forward to seeing what he does in the next four years,” Jennifer Garner told POLITICO on Wednesday, echoing a comment her husband made last week. Despite the lukewarm review, Garner stressed that she’s “an Obama supporter” who wants to see him reelected.

In town as an artist ambassador for Save the Children, the actress joined former Sen. Chris Dodd and Sen. Bob Casey in addressing a new report on the overall well-being of children in the U.S. The report gave the country a below average grade of C minus.

“This report card shows that we, the wealthiest nation in the world, are not fulfilling our obligation to the future,” she said in her remarks. “There’s so much work that is needed.”

Garner also shared a letter written by her 6-year-old daughter, Violet, and spoke about seeing poverty firsthand in her home state of West Virginia.

“We’re in trouble,” she said after the event, noting that one in four children in the U.S. lives in poverty. “…That’s an emergency.”

Asked how Obama has done on this particular issue, Garner said that “he’s off to a good start.”

But the “Butter” star wants to hear more — both from Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney — on how they’d help disadvantaged kids.

“There was not one question about the state of children living in poverty in the United States” asked in the first presidential debate, she said. “…You would think that would be at the front of the conversation, not something that’s buried so deeply that it’s never even talked about.”

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‘Odd Life of Timothy Green’ Star Jennifer Garner Reveals Her Toughest, ‘Incredibly Embarrassing’ Scene

Posted by Ali in Aug 19,2012 with No Comments

The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Jen about the most embarrassing scene she had to film in her new movie The Odd Life of Timothy Green.

The actress talks to THR about playing a woman who finds a magical child in her garden in Disney’s new film.

In The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Jennifer Garner wasn’t only required to act, but she also had to sing and dance — tasks she didn’t find quite as enjoyable.

Garner’s character Cindy and her husband, Jim (Joel Edgerton), are forced to sing and dance at a get-together at her sister’s house when their child, Timothy Green (CJ Adams), is asked to get on stage. While this scene was funny to watch, Garner tells The Hollywood Reporter that it was one of the toughest for her to work through.

“We hated shooting the music stuff at my sister’s house. It was incredibly embarrassing, we never did it the same way twice,” she says. “It wasn’t choreographed so every time it was very embarrassing.”
However, the actress also tells THR that she did enjoy shooting the soccer matches in the film.”They were super fun to shoot,” she says.
In the film, directed by Peter Hedges, Garner and Edgerton’s characters are a couple who can’t have a kid of their own. One night, they write down the qualities they wanted their child to have, put them box and bury it in the backyard. After a storm, a 10-year-old boy (CJ Adams) appears, claiming to be their son.
“Now I don’t say ‘yes’ to a movie unless I can’t say ‘no’ to it, and this was definitely the case here, I just, I had to be a part of it,” Garner says of working on Timothy Green.
Garner, who is married to actor Ben Affleck and has three kids with him, gave birth five months ago to their son Samuel. “Anything involving parenting, whether you have kids or not, it just hits you, there is nothing more precious than family,” she says.

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Jennifer on the Late Show with David Letterman

Posted by Ali in Aug 15,2012 with No Comments

Last night Jennifer was on the Late Show with David Letterman. She was promoting the Odd Life of Timothy Green which opens today in theaters. Here is a clip that CBS has released where Jen talks about being 40.

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Jennifer Garner: I used to be an obsessive mother

Posted by Ali in Aug 15,2012 with No Comments

Fox News spoke with Jennifer at the premiere of The Odd Life of Timothy Green and she talks about how she has evolved as a mother with each child.

Three children later and Jennifer Garner not only looks glowing and radiant, but says she is less uptight about the trials and tribulations of motherhood too.

“(My parenting style) evolves all the time. With my first child I was a little more like Cindy Green in this movie, who is just obsessively trying to make sure her child is happy at every moment and always trying to control his environment and make sure he has everything he might possibly need,” Garner told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column while promoting the forthcoming “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.” “I was just a little bit neurotic as many first-time moms can be.”

But having given birth to baby number three this February – son Samuel Garner Affleck – the actress and wife of fellow star Ben Affleck has taken a serious step back from the internal chaos.

“You learn to let go of some of that, when you are working the hardest sometimes you are making it the hardest for your child too, and you just chill out a bit,” she continued. “I went from having a diaper bag packed with fifteen diapers, and ten changes of clothes and every kind of rash cream to throwing a diaper in my purse and being like, ‘yeah, we will figure out the rest. It’s good.’”

And despite her A-list status, Garner is apparently just like any other mom – she can’t help but brag about her young ones.

“I brag to my mom, and my girlfriends and I all talk about kids,” she quipped. “We’re all proud of them.”

Garner stars alongside Joel Edgerton in the fantasy film, which hits theaters August 15, and centers on a couple who is unable to conceive, so they so they bury all their wishes for a baby in a box in their backyard. They wake up the next day to find a ten year old child, Timothy on their doorstep.

“I’m excited to have this film come out, because at the end of the summer when everyone has seen so many action films and so much noise, you will leave feeling just a little bit better about your life,” Garner noted, adding that she has her Kleenex stash ready-to-go.

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