Click here to read the full article.
Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer were spotted on set of Netflix’s “13 Going on 30,” filming a scene with Emily Bader, who stars in the new reimagining with Logan Lerman.
Garner — who played Jenna Rink, the awkward teenager
magically transported into her 30-year-old life as a high-powered, but messy, magazine editor — was already on board the project as an executive producer. Last week, she told Variety’s Marc Malkin that she would be visiting the set.
“I’m going to go [and] see if I can bump around and see if they’ll put me in somewhere,” Garner joked. “Maybe I could be in the background of whatever the ‘Thriller’ scene is.”
But it appears Garner was just playing coy. The set photos, published on Tuesday by Just Jared, show Garner, Bader and Greer — who played Jenna’s frenemy, Lucy “Tom-Tom” Wyman — in costume and filming a scene at a building in Santa Monica, Calif. Netflix has not confirmed that they’re reprising their roles, and the project’s logline is being kept under wraps, so it’s unclear how much Garner and Greer factor into the plot.
The new “13 Going on 30” is directed by Brett Haley, who most recently helmed Netflix’s adaptation of Emily Henry’s “People We Met On Vacation,” starring Bader, which was a massive hit. Taylor Zakhar Perez, Jessica Alba, Adeline Rudolph, Taylor Ortega, Tim Meadows and Dan Bucatinsky will also star in the movie. 2004’s “13 Going on 30,” directed by Gary Winick and also starring Mark Ruffalo, grossed $96 million in theaters and became a cultural touchstone for Millennial audiences.
In April, Garner told Variety why she championed the reboot 22 years after the original comedy hit theaters.
“It’s the first of many, many times that someone has brought [a reboot] up to me, so it started to feel like — I don’t want it to happen without me participating,” she said. “Jenna is so close to me, but there’s a musical [adaptation] happening that’s going to be in Toronto. There was a TV show that I was a part of working toward that never really got off the ground. … And, in this case, of course, I said I was interested.”
The script and Bader, whom she described as “magical,” clinched it for her. “I want to watch her do it,” Garner continued. “I mean, why should it just be me? Why can’t magic strike twice? Why can’t she have an incredible experience with it in a way that audiences can relate all over again?”
Greer concurred, adding: “It’s been ours for so long. Let’s let someone else have a crack at it.”
At the time, there weren’t plans for Garner and Greer, who were promoting their latest collaboration in Apple TV’s “The Last Thing He Told Me,” to reprise their roles. But if the opportunity presented itself, both actresses were game. “I would do literally anything that Jennifer Garner asked me to do,” Greer teased. “And since she’s the executive producer, she would be my boss again, and I would do whatever she wanted me to do.”
Netflix had no comment regarding the casting.
