Jennifer Garner has reflected on how “s*** goes down” by the middle of a woman’s life.
Jennifer Garner appears in The Five Star Weekend
The 53-year-old actress – who split from Ben Affleck, the father of her kids Violet, 19, Seraphina, 16, and Samuel, 13, in 2015 – thinks the subject of her latest project, The Five Star Weekend, is relatable because it depects a group of females coming together for a bonding trip amid their various problems.
She told Emmy magazine: “By the time you’re in the middle of your life, some s*** has gone down.
“So, they all show up with hurt and grief. And in the privacy and the messiness of just sitting in each other’s stew of sisterhood, there’s room for all of it to come out and be explored.”
Jennifer is joined in The Five Star Weekend by Chloe Sevigny, Gemma Chan, Regina Hall and D’Arcy Carden, and the women quickly bonded on the shoot.
The Alias actress raved: , “It’s so easy to be interviewed about this show, because we really all had the best time.”
Gemma agreed: “This was an absolute dream. We were a family.”
D’Arcy gushed: “All I want to do is tell you how much I loved working with these women. This was life-changing for me.”
Regina noted: “Developing the friendships didn’t feel like work.”
And Chloe added: “We all love each other, and it’s amazing.”
Jennifer, who was also an executive producer, arranged for food and coffee trucks almost every day of the shoot and even baked her own blueberry buckle coffee cake.
She said: “I used to bake it in my first tiny New York apartment kitchen and would take it to my agents.
“I try to keep it up and bring it in either once a season or once a movie.”
Jennifer recently discussed the impact of her split from Ben on her career, admitting she “hardly worked” afterwards.
She told InStyle magazine: “First of all, when you’re in a performance kind of role, you give up a year/year-and-a-half of performance while you are pregnant, having a baby, recovering.
“When my kids were little, I worked so little, and then we had such an upheaval in our family, that I really hardly worked for a long time.”
