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Dairy Queen Jennifer Garner talks about finding her voice as a producer, time off with her family and mastering the art of competitive butter sculpting for Butter n By IngrId randoja 34 | Cineplex Magazine | march 2012
utter Hits tHeatres later tHis year We’ve all seen the paparazzi pics of Jennifer Garner the radiant, down-to-earth wife and mother. There she is with husband Ben Affleck and their two kids (as of press time the pregnant Garner had not yet given birth to the couple’s third child) on a family outing to the beach or the market. But there’s more to Garner than the stroller mama pics would have you believe. The 39-year-old actor who became a household name playing a secret agent on TV’s Alias, and has starred in films such as Juno, 13 Going on 30 and The Kingdom, is now a producer. Her debut effort is the satirical comedy Butter, which comes out later this year. Set in Iowa, Butter casts Garner as Laura Pickler, the ambitious wife of butter-carving champion Bob Pickler (Ty Burrell). When Bob retires, Laura throws herself into winning the state crown, but she meets her match in Destiny (Yara Shahidi), a talented 10-year-old African-American girl with a gift for turning butter into pure art. During the Toronto International Film Festival, we spoke with the expectant mother about Butter, becoming a producer and the power of trusting her own voice. Tell me about creating Laura Pickler, this hilarious, high-strung woman who basks in the glory of her husband’s butter-carving career. “I did the strangest research for this movie. YouTube is a wonderful thing for actors.” What did you watch on YouTube? “I watched archive footage of all kinds of first ladies — first ladies of Iowa, first ladies of Texas, presidential first ladies — people Laura would aspire to be. And I watched a lot of beauty queens. Then weird things like Muhammad Ali, when he was at his ‘float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’ stage. It was a blast.” ConTInUEd march 2012 | Cineplex Magazine | 35
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