JENNIFER GARNER: EVERYTHING THAT'S FUN TO KNOW - PART 7
4 MAY 2004. SOURCE: TEEN HOLLYWOOD

Teen Hollywood: We heard you hung out with young teens here and back home as research. Were they very different from each other?

Jennifer: Some were privileged. I had a trip home to West Virginia in the middle of this and hung out with a bunch of girls there, and there were quite a few similarities. These girls were nice to each other. They had travelled quite a bit, but they were inquisitive about the world. They were very sophisticated, but also incredibly innocent still, and aware of the fact that they had the opportunity to grow up faster and that there were possibilities for being promiscuous at a very young age and they weren't goin there. These were really, really great girls in both cases. They didn't talk about other girls in a nasty way, which I found to be great.

Teen Hollywood: Are you sick of seeing yourself in the tabloids and do you have a family support group when that happens?

Jennifer: My parents understand what I'm going through, and they still live in West Virginia. It's all a human thing. It's not that wacky. It's not like I'm on another planet. It's just a little odd.

Teen Hollywood: Does your mother ever call you up and say, "This is funny, it's so stupid"?

Jennifer: Oh, constantly. That's our way of dealing with it - laughing about it - but she's as clueless about it as I am. And the cast (of ALIAS) and I were just laughing because, last summer, the press decided that I was pregnant, and they ran all these pictures and they talked about it. They were like, "Remember when you were pregnant?"

Teen Hollywood: Elektra is a fantasy figure, and so is Sydney. Was it refreshing to pay kind of a regular girl (even if she is a 13-year-old in an adult body)?

Jennifer: Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I'm aching to play every role that is out there. I mean, you constantly are just looking for a challenge. Elektra, to me, is an unfinished challenge, and so, I need to finish her off, just for myself. Whether there is another chapter to be had or not, I need to know for myself that I dug in there a little deeper, got a little more proficient at the fighting. I just get kind of hungry for it. The problem is that I fall for everything that I do. So, eventually, and in this case, this was a complete, opposite challenge for me. TO BE CONTINUED / BACK TO THE TOP