Jennifer Garner is quite an impressive actor, quite famous in the entertainment industry. She started her career at theatres slowly making her way to Hollywood’s big screens. Garner has been part of many successful movies and has earned her fair share of fame and recognition from those projects in the industry. Currently working as an activist for childhood education she has made her impact on the world.
Garner has been affiliated with some big personalities in the industry and growing up it was always her aim to be different from the rest of the people, mainly her family, friends, and her acquaintances. She played roles in multiple blockbusters and had many stories to share, like the one where she had to suffer quite a bit due to the pleather pants she wore during her cast as Elektra.
Jennifer Garner’s Cast as Elektra Was Quite Hard for Her
Jennifer Garner has made headlines multiple times during her career as an actor in Hollywood. Her movies have been exceptionally well and she received the right amount of praise for it. Garner was even a part of the leading superhero franchise years before it even began, the MCU. She was cast as Elektra in Daredevil, although the movie had a decent run at the box office, she had a very bad experience filming it. She had to take on the role twice and she was dissatisfied both times. According to her remarks, the script for the movies was quite bland.
“I had to be cut out of and sewn into the pleather pants every time I had to pee, and that was like a 45-minute undertaking so I definitely held it. I had so many chicken cutlet fake boobs in to make Elektra’s boobs.
I think there were like three on each side of different sizes, and everything was pushed up and out. I was just this close to a wardrobe malfunction at all times. There’s not enough tape in the world to make this stuff safe.”
During an interview with Comic Book Movie, Jennifer Garner shared that she had the worst time in her life whenever she had to put on the suit for Elektra as it had all the unusual stuff going on. Every time she had to go to the washroom, the suit had to be cut and sewn back again, it was difficult from her perspective as she did not get many opportunities to relax while wearing the dress. Moreover, the dress had fake b**bs in it to make the character look more promising, the situation was so bad that the set was a step away from causing a wardrobe malfunction.
Daredevil and Elektra Had a Disappointing Result
Daredevil was released in 2003 with Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock and Jennifer Garner as Elektra. The movie had a pretty decent run at the box office, collecting a bit over $179 million at the box office against a budget of $78 million. Although many people like it, it has a very low overall IMDb rating of 5.3/10.
Elektra soon followed and was released in 2005 with Garner as the main lead. The movie completely failed at the box office and had an even worse IMDb rating of 4.7/10. The movie made a little less than $57 million at the box office after it was released worldwide with a budget of $43 million.
Source: Comic Book Movie
