Jennifer Garner on “the Most Important Scene I’ve Ever Shot” in Her 30-Year Career
“That’s more badass than I remembered it,” Jennifer Garner declares while watching an action sequence from her 30-year career for Vanity Fair’s Scene Selection. As it turns out, there’s a lot for Garner to rediscover from her storied career, starting with her breakout role on the hit spy show Alias and going through to her latest project, The Five-Star Weekend, Peacock’s series adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s bestseller. “Alias was so far outside of anything I had done. No one had thought of me for action. No one had thought of me for a tough role,” Garner says of her pivotal five-season turn as undercover agent Sydney Bristow from 2001 to 2006. Born from an idea that arose during the writing of J.J. Abrams’s prior show, Felicity, Alias introduced Garner to longtime friend Victor Garber, who played Sydney’s CIA-operative father, Jack. “Anything Victor Garber does is iconic,” Garner tells VF. “I kind of feel like his actual daughter and I feel like he’s a real father figure to me. He married Ben [Affleck] and me [in …
