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Jennifer Garner’s kids aren’t too interested in watching their mom’s roles on screen.
“My kids don’t love to watch me in things. They do to be supportive, but I think it’s a little weird to watch your mom kiss someone or cry,” she explained to the outlet. “It’s different.”
In fact, Garner said that sonSamuel, 11, and daughtersSeraphina Rose, 14, andViolet, 17, are more interested in dad Ben Affleck’s body of work.
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Garner noted, “They don’t mind watching their dad. They don’t want to see me sad, and they don’t want to see me in a romance. They don’t love seeing me play someone else’s mom, honestly. I don’t know if they’ll watch this.”
When it came to the bookThe Last Thing He Told Me, however, Garner was able to get Seraphina on board.
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The book also explores “the relationship between this woman who never expected to be a mother and was not particularly gifted at it and this young woman who never expected to have a mother and wasn’t really good at that,” Garner explained. “All of that together just made for a really explosive read.”
The13 Going on 30actress, known for being a relatable mom, said it was “very difficult” for her to “play a character who’s not maternal at all.”
“I’ve played a mom quite a bit, and that is actually lovely, because it’s very easy to slip into mothering some awesome young actor, and then you build a relationship under it, so at the end, you’re quite close.”
Working with co-starAngourie Rice, who plays her 16-year-old stepdaughter Bailey, required them to “become a team.”
“Angourie Rice and I were almost adversarial at the beginning of the series,” Garner said. “And we had to build trust, a partnership, become a team — whether we liked it or not — until we were legitimately close. It was nice to have our real relationship build slowly over time, that our trust built over time just like Hannah and Bailey.”
Speaking withThe Hollywood Reporterlast month, Affleck opened up about which of his films his kids are familiar with.
“The first movie of mine that my kids actually sat through together wasArmageddonbecause they like movies where they can make fun of me and they really like the idea that I was an astronaut or an oil driller or they just found the whole thing kind of preposterous but they loved it. They loved the fun of it,” he shared.
“But the first movie that I cared about and [was] really interested in what my children thought wasGood Will Hunting, which I watched with two of my now three kids. It was interesting for me to watch them watch the movie and see how different their childhood is from what my childhood looked like,” he continued.
“They were engaged and interested and that was on an artistic level, probably the most gratifying experience of my life.”
source: people.com
