Jennifer Garner has been doing the talk show circuit to promote her role in Danny Collins, with Al Pacino, Annette Bening and Bobby Cannavale. It’s about an aging rockstar (Pacino) taking stock of his life and just came out this week. Garner plays his daughter-in-law. The above photo is of Garner at the premiere a couple of days ago. Her styling is ok and I like the cut of that gown, but it’s very plain. She has a tendency to go for solid colors and black on the red carpet and I wish she would mix it up a little.
In Garner’s appearance on The Today Show earlier this week, she wore a little red dress that would have been a better choice for the premiere. She also started crying when she talked about her Southern Living photoshoot with her mom and sisters. It was hard to watch her try to keep it together, and then she explained that she was upset over two earlier sad segments which had just aired. Here’s what she said and you can watch the video below.
During a chat with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie, Garner opened up about her feelings for family, and she didn’t hold anything back — not even tears.
“There’s just nothing like sharing the spotlight or anything else with your sisters and your mom,” she said when discussing the recent Southern Living photo shoot she did with her family. “It’s always fun for me to get my sisters dolled up and my mom.”
With that sweetly sentimental mention, Garner couldn’t help but cry a bit. But as it turned out, there was more to the waterworks than just that.
The star shared that not only is her mother, Patricia, feeling under the weather today (get well soon, Mom!), but Garner had just watched two particularly moving moments on TODAY.
“You showed those babies and Leah Still,” she said of TODAY’s stories on a recently widowed father who’s raising his newborn quadruplets on his own and Devon Still’s daughter’s battle against cancer. “I just watched it, and I can’t even take it.”
Garner smiled through her tears, and while she offered up an apology for crying, we can’t imagine a reason to be sorry. If anything, we just find her even more lovable and relatable than ever before.
“We just took a vote,” Matt Lauer said as the interview came to a close. “We just put Jennifer in the list of best guests ever.”
I’m a cryer like that. I cry at commercials, at stories on the radio (this made me cry this morning but I told myself it was the Zyrtec) and especially if I’m talking about anyone who died. This reminds me of how Angelina Jolie usually cries when she talks about her departed mom. I hope Garner’s mom is ok and that she was really getting choked up over the show.
Meanwhile Garner was also on Jimmy Fallon, where she told a funny story about how one of her daughters (she didn’t specify which one) insisted on being carried after another baby came along. She also said that her kids regularly pinch each other. One complaint about Garner’s appearance on Fallon – it was St. Patrick’s Day and she wasn’t wearing green! Maybe they taped it ahead of time and she didn’t realize it would air on St. Patrick’s Day. Otherwise there is no excuse for not wearing green.
Here’s the video clip:
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Here’s the coat Garner wore to the premiere. Um, it’s fashionable I guess.
photo credit: FameFlynet and NBC
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