Jennifer Garner revealed what she missed the most from her days as a relatively unknown actress during a roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter.
‘It’s an enormous loss when you are the person that the eyes are directed toward,’ The Last Thing He Told Me star said.
‘The loss of just being able to smile at someone on the street and say hello as yourself is a really intense thing,’ she added.
The 51-year-old actress noted that although the privilege of being able to say hello yourself was, ‘something to mourn and not be taken lightly,’ she also believed that it was a, ‘natural outcropping of…success.’
In other words, Jennifer said, ‘It’s not something to be totally feared.’
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A-list but down to Earth: Jennifer Garner revealed what she missed the most from her days as a relatively unknown actress; seen in June
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Natural beauty: The 51-year-old actress explained that a lot of fans see her as some of the famous characters she’s portrayed on film and in television over the years: seen in May
The Houston-born actress first shot to fame with her starring role on Alias, where Jennifer played a double agent working for the CIA and a criminal organization.
During the roundtable interview, the down-to-earth actress divulged that a lot of fans still recognize her for her 13 Going on 30 role.
‘It’s, ‘Oh, it’s my comfort movie,’ or, God forbid, ‘My mom’s favorite movie,’ the mother of three joked.
The early 200s rom-com isn’t the only feature film Jennifer’s known for however.
She played a superhero years before Robert Downey Jr. made it cool, starring as the red-leather clad heroine Elektra in the 2003 film Daredevil.
Daredevil was the film where Jennifer fell in love with her second ex-husband, Ben Affleck.
The A-list couple tied the knot in 2005, the same year that the brunette beauty’s first solo superhero film Elektra premiered in theaters.
Known to the world by their couple name Bennifer, Jen and Ben ultimately split in 2018.
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All American girl: Although the Apple TV Plus star is a certified A-lister, Jennifer has stayed relatively humble over the course of her career; seen in June
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It couple: Ben, 50, and Jennifer share three children together from their 13-year-long marriage; seen in 2014
Woman on a mission: The Texan-born star plays a woman searching for her missing husband in her latest project, The Last Thing He Told Me on Apple TV Plus
Now A-list exes, Ben and Jennifer remain amicable co-parents to their three children, Violet Anne, 17, Seraphina Rose, 13, and their youngest, 10-year old Samuel.
Following their high-profile divorce, the Once Upon a Farm co-founder began dating John Miller, a businessman.
The couple have been together since 2018, keeping their relationship relatively low-key.
While the actress typically stays private about her personal life, she did have one more thing to add about the loss of anonymity during the roundtable interview.
‘It’s something to know for yourself and to talk about. And then figure out where can you still observe and be quiet in yourself and make room for those places,’ Jennifer observed.
