Jennifer Garner chats ‘heartbreak’ of teenage daughter Violet Affleck, 15, growing up… as she admits the kids call her the ‘fun killer’
Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner revealed the most personal parallel of her new movie Yes Day involved her relationship with her 15-year-old daughter Violet Affleck.
‘I’ve never done a movie where I drew more from personal experience ever,’ the 48-year-old mother-of-three admitted on Monday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show.
‘The first draft [of the script] really had the teenager [played by Jenna Ortega] being snarky and really kind of nasty and a troublemaker.
Inspiration: Golden Globe winner Jennifer Garner revealed the most personal parallel of her new movie Yes Day involved her relationship with her 15-year-old daughter Violet Affleck (R)
The 48-year-old mother-of-three admitted on Monday’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show: ‘I’ve never done a movie where I drew more from personal experience ever’
‘So there was this kind of external pressure and I kept saying, “No! The heartbreak is just that she’s growing up at all. That’s what’s heartbreaking!”‘
Jennifer continued: ‘It’s heartbreaking for the mom and for the teenager, and just needing to have that kind of severing of those babymama ties. That’s what’s so hard. You don’t have to have her be a jerk. It’s even harder that she’s lovely.’
Violet was only 6 when Garner started making the philosophy behind Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s 2009 book into a real-life family tradition.
‘My kids do call me the “fun killer” – that’s in the movie,’ the Texan-born, West Virginia-raised star noted.
Jennifer recalled: ‘The first draft [of the script] really had the teenager [played by Jenna Ortega] being snarky and really kind of nasty and a troublemaker. So there was this kind of external pressure and I kept saying, “No! The heartbreak is just that she’s growing up at all. That’s what’s heartbreaking!”‘
Garner continued: ‘It’s heartbreaking for the mom and for the teenager, and just needing to have that kind of severing of those babymama ties. That’s what’s so hard. You don’t have to have her be a jerk. It’s even harder that she’s lovely’
Nine years and counting! Violet (R, pictured April 13) was only 6 when the Texan-born, West Virginia-raised star started making the philosophy behind Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s 2009 book into a real-life family tradition
Jennifer noted: ‘My kids do call me the “fun killer” – that’s in the movie. And as they get older, more of the fun for them is making fun of me or kind of torturing me. Whereas when they were little, it was breaking more simple rules’
April 1 family portrait: Aside from Violet, Garner has two younger children – daughter Seraphina (2-L), 12; and son Samuel (R), 9 – from her decade-long marriage to Ben Affleck, which ended in 2018
‘And as they get older, more of the fun for them is making fun of me or kind of torturing me. Whereas when they were little, it was breaking more simple rules.’
Aside from Violet, Jen has two younger children – daughter Seraphina, 12; and son Samuel, 9 – from her decade-long marriage to Ben Affleck, which ended in 2018.
Garner executive produced and starred as married mother-of-three Allison Torres in Miguel Arteta’s comedy, which premiered last Friday on Netflix.
Yes Day currently holds a dismal 44% critic approval rating (out of 39 reviews) and 59% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Premiered last Friday on Netflix! The 13 Going on 30 alum executive produced and starred as married mother-of-three Allison Torres in Miguel Arteta’s (M) comedy
Yikes! Yes Day currently holds a dismal 44% critic approval rating (out of 39 reviews) and 59% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes
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