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Jennifer
Garner Bomis Ring
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While doing summer stock in Atlanta, Georgia, a few years back, Jennifer
Garner approached a veteran New York stage actress for career advice.
"She told me to forget acting and go get a paralegal degree," recalls
Garner. "I wanted to kung-fu her and take her down!" Instead, Garner focused
on moving from stage work to TV shows like "Law & Order" and "Felicity,"
where she met her husband, Scott Foley. After honing her acting chops
with various film roles, Garner was cast as Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend
in last December's stoner comedy Dude, Where's My Car? She one-upped that
when director Michael Bay chose her to play Nurse Sandra opposite Ben
Affleck and Josh Hartnett in the upcoming Pearl Harbor.
Working for the first time on an epic-scale picture was difficult enough;
being a female on a male-oriented set was an extra challenge. "None of
us women had really done an action film before and Michael had never done
an action film with women, so there were a lot of tears shed and a lot
of pressure." The cure for the Pearl Harbor blues? "We'd all gather at
the makeup trailer and play Madonna's "The Immaculate Collection" and
put on our Hawaiian grass skirts and coconut bras and dance around and
make each other laugh." Following Pearl Harbor's release, Garner will
make a brief appearance opposite Foley in the upcoming indie Rennie's
Landing, about a group of college grads who plan a bank heist. As a Young
Hollywood couple who have already shared screen time twice, how do Garner
and Foley handle love scenes that occur with other actors?
"I think it's fair to say that Scott gets more jealous than I do. However,
on the night before our wedding, I turned on the TV and there was the
"Felicity" episode in which Tyra Banks straddles Scott and thrusts her
ta-tas in his face. He was like, "Tyra Banks is hot." I thought, 'Oh,
how nice.'" Garner flashes a wicked smile. "But what can you do? She is
hot--I'd kiss her."--Michael Moses
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