JENNIFER GARNER... EVERYTHING THAT'S FUN TO KNOW - PART 5
29 APRIL 2004. SOURCE: TEEN HOLLYWOOD

Teen Hollywood: What will be different?

Jennifer: I think she has such a rich storyline of her own and we're really mining that storyline in this movie. It's quite dark. I mean, her story is quite dark. She's an assassin. She's an assassin for hire, she's a woman for hire although we don't go there in this movie. But as far as what would be different, I don't know. I think it will be its own thing naturally.

Teen Hollywood: Any wardrobe surprises?

Jennifer: I think that the wardrobe so far seems to be more reminiscent of what fans associate with Elektra. She wears all kinds of different things. She's known mostly for this red outfit that you can't seem to wear any underwear underneath, so we could never quite figure out how to make it work. But she also wears a lot of black, so when we did DAREDEVIL, we were kind of slammed for the wardrobe, but actually it was something taken directly from one of the comic books and now what I'm wearing will be a little more familiar to people who like the comic books.

Teen Hollywood: How do you deal with fame since ALIAS took off and you've been in the spotlight?

Jennifer: Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it. It was never my goal to become famous or to walk a red carpet for that matter. It was always my goal to get the next job and then once this was in sight, it became my goal just to try to have more choices. And of course, I'm competitive enough to want to do well at what I do, but I didn't get to this part of it without knowing what came along with it. All of us have parts of our jobs that we don't like. You just try not to pay too much attention to it in either direction. You try not to get too heady about the perks and how crazy it can be and you try not to take any of the other stuff too seriously or too much to heart. Because who cares?

Teen Hollywood: Were you cast in 13 GOING ON 30 before Mark Ruffalo as Matt?

Jennifer: I was and the movie took a leap for me when Mark Ruffalo was cast. The second they breathed his name, I said please, please, please, yes, yes, yes. If they would have said five years ago, 'if you could work with five actors, who would they be?' he would've been number one. So the fact that I could wish that and then it could happen... He's a dream of a person. He's a fantastic actor and he's just so fun to hang out with. Talk about grounded, he's really the beez-nees. TO BE CONTINUED / BACK TO THE TOP