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  • Al Pacino: Jennifer Garner Talks ‘Danny Collins’ and Working With Movie Icon

    Al Pacino stars in Danny Collins, which opens Friday in theaters nationwide. Jennifer Garner stars in the film, too, and during a recent interview with the Boston Herald, she discussed both the film and working with Al Pacino.

    “I feel like, well, it’s a lot of work to be Al Pacino. And he very deftly neutralizes that factor when you meet him. He is generally good at putting people at ease,” Jennifer Garner explained. “It looks exhausting to me–not that he makes it look exhausting–but he puts energy into making­ sure everyone feels supported and confident and good and not freaked out by his Al Pacino-ness. He’s not afraid to ask questions or not know the answers. And he’s quiet and complements you.”

    Danny Collins is inspired by a real-life letter the late John Lennon sent to an aspiring folksinger back in 1971. The letter didn’t arrive until more than three decades later. Al Pacino plays the lead role.

    “Danny Collins is anyone taking stock of their own life, anyone looking for a second chance or a fourth chance,” Jennifer Garner explained. She plays the role of Al Pacino’s character’s daughter-in-law.

    She called Al Pacino “a treat,” and said he hosted weekly Saturday afternoon gatherings in his backyard.

    “We would read through all the scenes coming up the next week and we’d improvise, talk, punch holes in it,” she said. “It felt very much like what you’d do in the theater. We talked­ about how we–Annette Bening, Cannavale, Chris­topher Plummer–were a bunch of theater geeks, although they all have way more experience than I do in that world.”

    It definitely sounds like Jennifer Garner got as much–maybe even more–out of working with Al Pacino in Danny Collins than she did starring in the film herself.

    Of course anyone in the film world would likely take a two-bit role in order to learn from someone like Pacino.

  • Jennifer Garner On Working With Al Pacino

    Jennifer Garner recently wrapped, and began promoting, her new movie, Danny Collins.

    The film stars Jennifer Garner as a mother and wife, a role she is pretty secure in.

    Alongside Jennifer Garner, it also stars Al Pacino as her former-rocker father-in-law who has estranged himself from his son. Al Pacino’s character tries to make amends with his family as he ages.

    Seeing Al Pacino as a former rock star is pretty fun, but working with him must have been really fun, especially for Jennifer Garner.

    Recently, in an interview about Danny Collins, Jennifer Garner opened up about what it was like to work with the Hollywood icon.

    Jennifer Garner said she was already on board with doing Danny Collins, but working with Al Pacino made the deal so much sweeter.

    She said, “I met (writer-director) Dan Fogelman before. We have managers in common so I think I’d been spoon-fed to him a little bit. I’d been sold to him certainly and it came my way. The second I read it I thought, ‘This is just a jewel box. This movie is just a beautiful gem.’ And then they said, ‘Al’s doing it,’ and I said, ‘Yep, I’m already doing it so it doesn’t even matter. That’s even better.’”

    Jennifer Garner said the experience she had working with Al Pacino was full of surprises and that watching him work was never boring.

    She said, “Al spent a lot of energy making sure that everyone feels comfortable, everyone feels good and everyone is at ease. It’s a lot of work being Al Pacino, and having everybody put their childhood fantasies and their impressions of you aside. Being Al Pacino is probably exhausting and he’s so gracious about it. He handles that really well. He’s very generous with how he puts out so much love so that you can calm down.”

    Jennifer Garner added, “But he’s also just a vulnerable guy who’s kind of a mess and really funny and disarming. He’s a fascinating, wonderful man and the second you start shooting, he’s so easy in his own skin that you just kind of want to work with him and keep going and going. I didn’t have that much to do with him, unfortunately. I wish I’d had more. But I loved watching him and Bobby [Cannavale] together. I loved watching their off-camera relationship. You can see in every moment that they’re together and where their kind of looking at me and saying, ‘This one’s crazy.’ They’re like an old married couple in a way, or a father and son. They’re really special together. The two of them on the porch, oh, wasn’t that beautiful?”

    Such sweet words from Jennifer Garner on her experience with Al Pacino.

    What do you think working with Al Pacino would be like?

  • Jennifer Garner Has Tons Of Hidden Talents

    Jennifer Garner apparently has a bunch of talents that she has picked up over the years that many may not know about.

    In an interview while promoting her new film Danny Collins, Jennifer Garner was asked about her rumored repertoire of obscure talents.

    Jennifer Garner said, “Besides saxophone? Besides playing spoons? Besides clogging? My cup runneth over with hidden talents.”

    The 43-year-old mother of three and wife of Ben Affleck must be really fun at a party!

    Jennifer Garner added, “Anything hillbilly I can do.”

    In Danny Collins, Jennifer Garner plays Al Pacino’s daughter-in-law, who is married to his estranged son, played by Bobby Cannavale. Also in the film is 6-year-old Giselle Eisenberg, who stars as their daughter.

    It seems Jennifer Garner took tips from little Giselle Eisenberg, as well as Al Pacino.

    While Al Pacino would likely be terrifying to most 10-year-old girls, Eisenberg wasn’t at all intimidated.

    Jennifer Garner said, “The two of them would improvise with each other at the end of a scene and just go on and on and on because she wasn’t afraid. And so that was just such a great reminder that just because he’s Al Pacino, he’s not being intimidating – he’s being loving. So don’t be afraid of him.”

    Jennifer Garner learned some acting tips from her tiny co-star, but her real life kids teach her the useful stuff.

    On The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, Jennifer Garner shared some parenting tips with Fallon, who has a two-year-old and a newborn.

    Among other advice, she shared a story about her daughter that was hilarious. And relateable.

    “The other thing is that they can get clever,” Jennifer Garner said.

    She added, “They’re all gonna go nuts when there’s a new baby, right? One way or another, if it isn’t now, it’s going to be later. It’s coming.”

    Jennifer Garner said, “We had one who wanted to still be the baby, but she never wanted to say, ‘I want to still be the baby. She wanted to be carried everywhere. What she was telling us was that she was a mermaid. She had a tail and she had flippers and she needed to be carried everywhere, and we bought it.”

    She added, “Suddenly I’m lugging this huge kid around and I saw her smiling to herself, smirking… We would get to a staircase and she’d say, ‘Oh my tail, what with my flippers, I can’t make it up that staircase.’”

    What do you think about Jennifer Garner’s advice to Jimmy Fallon?

  • Jennifer Garner: ‘Danny Collins’ Press Tour Includes Visit With Jimmy Fallon

    Jennifer Garner has had a very busy week. As part of her Danny Collins press tour she visited Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show, and even gave him a friendly warning about children–and a hint at what he can look forward to as the father of two girls.

    Jimmy Fallon is dad to daughters Winnie and Frances, and Jennifer Garner asked him how the older of the two interacts with the younger.

    “She’s good, she loves the little one, and like, kisses her every day,” Fallon said.

    Jennifer Garner told the late night host to enjoy such moments, and warned him that they might not last.

    “Enjoy that. Take pictures, yes. No, I mean, they just have their, you know, they have their moments… You’re driving to school and you kind of hear a yelp. You look in the rearview mirror and there’s just like a pinch happening–a pinch for the ages,” she shared.

    On Wednesday, Jennifer Garner stepped out of ‘mommy mode’ briefly, and put on her incredibly sexy persona as she walked the red carpet at the Danny Collins premiere. She was gorgeous in a black strapless tea-length dress that no doubt made Ben Affleck remember that he did in fact marry a very sexy woman–and not just the mom of his three children.

    Jennifer Garner stars alongside Al Pacino, Julianne Moore, Annette Bening, and Jeremy Renner in Danny Collins. Al Pacino plays an aging rocker in the film–one who receives a long lost letter from the late John Lennon. The film opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, March 20th.

    It’s fun to see different sides of celebrities, and Jennifer Garner is one who doesn’t hide any of the facets of her life. She is first and foremost a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a friend. She showed her very emotional side during a visit to The Today Show where she talked about her mom and sisters.

    Kudos to Jennifer Garner for balancing her life so effectively. She is no doubt a wonderful mom, and as fans will be reminded when they check out Danny Collins this weekend at the movies, she’s a great actress, too.