- Jennifer Garner told InStyle that her three kids don't like seeing her movies.
- "I think it's a little weird to watch your mom kiss someone or cry," she said.
Jennifer Garner confesses if her kids have a choice between watching one of her movies or one their father Ben Affleck stars in, they are likely going to choose dad's.
Garner, 50, who had three children — Violet, 17, Seraphina, 14, and Samuel 11 — with Affleck before their 2017 divorce, recently told InStyle that her kids really don't want to see their mom on screen, especially if the movie has a romantic vibe.
"My kids don't love to watch me in things," she said. "They do to be supportive, but I think it's a little weird to watch your mom kiss someone or cry. It's different."
"They don't mind watching their dad," she added. "They don't want to see me sad and they don't want to see me in a romance. They don't love seeing me play someone else's mom, honestly."
Garner admitted she doesn't know if the kids will watch her most recent project, the AppleTV+ series "The Last Thing He Told Me," a thriller based on the bestselling book in which she plays a woman who tries to uncover the mystery behind the disappearance of her husband and forms an unexpected relationship with her stepdaughter in the process.
Though her kids may not want to watch her new show, Garner said Seraphina is a fan of the book like her.
"I loved, loved, loved the book. I read it aloud with my middle child at bedtime, and we could not stop," Garner told InStyle. "It pushed bedtime later and later because the book has this super-propulsive quality, really driven by two things: life-and-death stakes that keep shifting when you least expect it, everything turns on a dime again and again and again."Affleck, 50, recently told The Hollywood Reporter about the first movie of his that his kids watched.
"The first movie of mine that my kids actually sat through together was 'Armageddon' because they like movies where they can make fun of me and they really like the idea that I was an astronaut or an oil driller or they just found the whole thing kind of preposterous but they loved it," he said. "They loved the fun of it."
"But the first movie that I cared about and was really interested in what my children thought was 'Good Will Hunting,' which I watched with two of my now three kids," added Affleck, who currently can be seen in the movie "Air." "It was interesting for me to watch them watch the movie and see how different their childhood is from what my childhood looked like."
"They were engaged and interested," he continued, "and that was on an artistic level probably the most gratifying experience of my life."