From taking the role while she was still breast-feeding to the horror of watching Matthew McConnaughey and Jared Leto starving themselves, Garner discussed Dallas Buyers Club with BuzzFeed.
In Dallas Buyers Club, Jennifer Garner plays Dr. Eve Saks, who treats AIDS patients Ron (Matthew McConnaughey) and Rayon (Jared Leto). We spoke recently about the movie and her role in it.
Garner's Eve is a young doctor in a Dallas hospital who is helping to oversee a clinical trial for the drug AZT. It's 1985. She meets Ron Woodroof — played by McConnaughey, who will be nominated for an Oscar for this part — when she and her boss (Denis O'Hare) have to tell him he has AIDS and will die within 30 days.
Garner had only recently had her third kid, Samuel, when she read Dallas Buyers Club. "I had heard about it, and I had seen pictures of Matthew losing weight," she said. "And really couldn't imagine how I was going to do it, and was so happy at home."
But with McConnaughey, with whom Garner worked on Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, attached, she said, "I really wanted to work with him again. He's kind of great!"
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She watched director Jean-Marc Vallée's previous movies. "I watched Café de Flore and C.R.A.Z.Y., and thought, Ucch, god is he good. So smart."
Her husband, Ben Affleck, also encouraged her. "Then at home, Ben was saying, 'You need to work, you need to work,'" Garner said.
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Then Vallée and Garner talked.
"We Skyped," Garner said. "And he said —" she adopted a French accent — "'I do not want a beautiful actress.' And I was, like, 'What makes you think I'm some beautiful actress? That's the weirdest thing. So don't make me look beautiful!"
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"Look at shots of me every single day, I look half-crazy.'"
(For the record, Garner does not look even 1% crazy here. But it's hard to find a paparazzi photo of her without her children.)
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