Jennifer Garner has a reputation. Hers is the best kind possible, as she is known for being a genuinely kind and loving person. She graced the cover of Allure magazine this month and opened up to interviewer Danielle Pergament about the difficulties of being known as kind. Danielle herself seemed to be charmed by Jennifer.
Danielle and Jennifer also talked about her children and if they liked watching their famous parents in films. Jennifer also revealed what she would do if she wasn’t an actress, which goes along with being the "being kind" theme.
Jennifer is making the press rounds to promote her newest project, the Apple TV+ thriller The Last Thing He Told Me. For her role, she has been learning wood turning.
“It spoke to the mountain girl in me — it’s a big part of Appalachian culture,” Jennifer explained. “First, we just did spindles, then we made rolling pins before we graduated to bowls.” Turns out she has a talent for it, leaving us to question: What can’t this woman do?
Jennifer’s kindness makes it difficult to set boundaries, but she has learned this necessary skill. “The problem with, ‘Oh, she’s so nice’ is that when I have any kind of boundary, people think of it as much more than it actually is,” the Alias star revealed.
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Turns out Jennifer has bad days just like the rest of us. “The problem is being recognized on a day where I’m not so nice or when I have blackness in my soul,” the mom of three went on to say. “I’ve definitely had days where I just can’t do it. I scowl at people before they can walk up to me. I’m not perfect, and I don’t think I’m rude, but I’m not good at being fake. I’m an open book of a person.”
Jennifer shares three children with ex-husband Ben Affleck. Their very public divorce was not easy for Jennifer, and she has worked hard to establish normalcy for herself and her family, as much as one can working in Hollywood. Jennifer also revealed her kids will watch Ben’s movies, but hers? Not so much.
“They don’t mind watching their dad, but they kind of want me to be their mom,” Jennifer explained. “They don’t want to see me upset and women cry more in what we do. And they don’t really want to see me in a romantic thing.”
Jennifer wanted to be a mother from a young age. “Being a mother was one thing I knew I was going to be,” Jennifer said. “I really could have been a mother in any way. I could have adopted, I could have fostered, but there was no doubt I was going to be a mom. I mean, I was the kid with the doll everywhere I went.”
Perhaps the most shocking part of Danielle’s interview is what Jennifer would be if she was not in Hollywood. “I would have really liked being a minister,” she confessed. “My mom thinks I still will be.
“I grew up in such a lovely church in the United Methodist Church, and the minister was like the den parent,” she explained. “What I like about the study of religion, it reminds me of the study of theater — it’s really a liberal arts education. You have to understand history, geography, literature. It’s art, it’s everything.”
This is perfectly on brand for this kind woman.
