Jennifer Garner gets candid about her career longevity: 'I can't believe I'm still here'
Just when you think Jennifer Garner has maxed out on the endearment scale, the Golden Globe-winning actress takes it up yet another notch.
In a new The Hollywood Reporter profile, in which writer Lacey Rose detailed perfect strangers approaching Garner as if they just forgot to tell an old friend something, Garner admitted that she thought her family-first attitude would have cost her her career by now.
"It's a very hungry, greedy career and a very unforgiving one," the 48-year-old mother of three said, "and for someone who has chosen family way more often than I probably should have, I can't believe I'm still here."
Garner also reflected on her nuanced and storied relationship with fellow A-list actor Ben Affleck—also the father to her children. The couple married in 2005, then announced their split in 2015. "When our kids get married, we'll dance, I know that now," Garner said, reflecting on how she and Affleck approach their kids about tabloid coverage with transparency. "We'll boogaloo and have a great time. I don't worry about that anymore."
Garner, of course, solidified her place in Hollywood lore in the early aughts with leading roles such as romantic comedy 13 Going on 30 and dramatic television series Alias. She is maintaining her position with upcoming Netflix film Yes Day, where she plays a mom who says yes to her children for 24 hours, and upcoming sci-fi film The Adam Project opposite Ryan Reynolds.
Garner is also reported to star in J.J. Abrams' limited Apple TV Plus series My Glory Was I Had Such Friends. "Based on the 2017 memoir of the same name by Amy Silverstein, the story showcases the power of friendship and the resilience of the human spirit as it follows an extraordinary group of women who supported Silverstein as she waited for a second life-saving heart transplant," Deadline's Nellie Andreeva wrote way back in December 2018.
Abrams was an advocate for Garner to star in Alias and Felicity, both series that he created.
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