Jennifer Garner is all praises for her shut pal Reese Witherspoon. Apart from starring within the new Apple TV+ collection The Last Thing He Told Me, Jennifer is serving as EP alongside shut pal Reese.

At the present’s Los Angeles premiere, Garner opened up in regards to the collaborative course of, expressing gratitude to Reese for producing female-led tasks, The Hollywood Reporter reported. “I think the older you get and the more you’ve been kicking around for 30 years, you naturally become more central to the collaborative process,” Garner mentioned.

She recalled studying the scripts aloud within the yard of married co-creators Laura Dave and Josh Singer, then “over and over again tore them up, had heated discussions, but then they actually made revisions based on our conversations. They were so open to hearing my thoughts and ideas and so nuanced in the ways they made the shifts because of our conversations, that I was kind of blown away.” The star has began doing extra behind-the-scenes work in the previous few years, serving as producer for the 2021 Netflix movie Yes Day and the upcoming film Family Leave. She factors to Witherspoon, who has shortly created her personal empire below her Hello Sunshine banner, as the rationale behind her producing pivot.

“Honestly, Reese is behind that, she has really pushed me. She said to me a few years ago, ‘Nobody is sitting around thinking, what can I shoot in L.A. that’s going to have a 50-year-old woman in it?’ She’s like, ‘You’ve got to create your own stuff,'” Garner mentioned. “All women in this town owe a debt of gratitude to Reese.” Garner stars in The Last Thing He Told Me — which relies on Dave’s 2021 novel of the identical identify — as Hannah, a lady who kinds an surprising relationship together with her teen stepdaughter whereas looking for the reality about why her husband has mysteriously disappeared.

Julia Roberts was initially set to guide the collection, however after she dropped out, Garner despatched letters to the inventive crew pitching herself for the function. (ANI)

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