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"Just now, at 48, my dad let me make earrings for the first time"

More than two decades after it broke out, Jennifer Garner is not only wearing earrings for the first time, but more active than ever.

In an interview on the occasion of her new film, "Ready Day", she explains why you sometimes have to let the kids do whatever they want

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Friday, March 12, 2021, 00:00

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Trailer for the movie "Ready Day" (Netflix)

In 2009, "Ready Day" was published, a short and illustrated book about a family that once a year celebrates a fun ritual: one day when parents agree to every whim of their children.

Eat ice cream for dinner?

Watch TV all night?

Whatever you want.

The book was a success, and some parents adopted the method.

One of them is Jennifer Garner, who has two daughters and one son from her marriage to Ben Affleck.

Every year, as can be seen on her Instagram, she celebrates the permissive ritual, so one would only be asked to cast her for the cinematic adaptation of "Prepare Day," directed by Miguel Arte.

The film aired on Netflix over the weekend, and Garner plays a mother who sins in what is called "helicopter parenting," and is involved in the details of the lives of her three children.

Her partner, played by Edgar Ramirez, stands by the "good cop" standard, and as part of their attempts to improve their relationship with the angry children, they document the "ready day" tradition and decide to adopt it.

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From "Prepare Day" (Photo: Netflix)

In honor of the rise of the film, I met Garner for a short zoom interview, with other journalists from Europe.

The actress walks around with a copy of the book, and is proud to wave it.

“It’s easy to think of‘ Prepare Day ’as something excessive, but in the nine years I’ve been experimenting with it, I’ve learned that it can be expressed in a restrained way,” she says.

For us, for example, it could be all sorts of little things like: 'Mom, the car in the parking lot, can I get in and get my head out of the roof?' Or 'Can I get in the car and play with the buttons'? Or, for example, go into the grocery store and pick your own breakfast cereal "Buy lottery tickets or eat junk food for dinner. It doesn't have to be something extreme."

"Refusals are such an obvious thing in children's lives, that there are many things they no longer bother to ask. 'Prepare' allows you to release some energy. For us' prep's are usually at the end of August, when the ideas for fun activities are over and just before returning home the book".

I guess following the corona, your dynamics have changed a bit.

"Recently, after dinner, we sit on the couch, eat popcorn we knew, and watch two episodes of 'The Office.' We did binge on all seasons. My youngest son is nine, and it's a little too mature for him, and I also usually do not allow "He and his sisters watch TV during the week - but at a time like this, the rules change. By the way, they're really addicted to 'office.' I explained to them that there are other comedies as well, but all they want now is to watch it again from the beginning."

"The Corona was the 'no' year. We have to find the 'yes' where possible. We shot the film before the epidemic, but we edited it after it and it was fun to work on it and get a reminder of the 'yes' that still exists in the world. The best intentions possible. "

Aside from "Prepare Day," what other books do you read with the kids?

"The truth is a lot. I have a 12-year-old girl and we read every night before the year. The eldest girl is 15, and she's already going to bed too late for me, but we also read quite a bit, and high-level works - Oscar Wilde, Ibsen, Shakespeare. Everything. "For literacy, I am a really great mother. My weaknesses are organization and procrastination. The teachers always tell me that I am the first to respond to their emails. I explain in response that if I do not answer immediately, I will not answer at all."

Why talk about Ben Affleck when you can talk about her?

Jennifer Garner (Photo: GettyImages, Chelsea Guglielmino)

Garner broke out in the early 2000s when she starred in JJ Abrahams' "Fake Identity."

They will soon be reunited in a new series that will air on Apple, but there will be no sequel to the past hit.

In addition, she will also be seen in the film "The Adam Project" which she shot with Ryan Reynolds in Canada, for which she had to endure 14 days of isolation.

"Honest Day" is surprisingly good, and turns out to be a funny, fun and even a bit exciting film, but it will not win Garner any awards either.

She may be considered a star, but not a highly regarded actress.

However, she has other fans besides me.

For example, director Jason Reitman, who worked with her on Juno.

"Everyone around us is competing carelessly, but Jennifer cares," he was quoted as saying this week in a profile article about her in the Hollywood Report.

"She cares about family, she cares about dancing, she cares about cooking, she cares about the work of the game. She cares about everything, and she's not ashamed of it."

So she will not win an Oscar, but more than two decades after she took her first steps, and although most of the time the media has been more interested in her relationship with Ben Affleck than in herself, Jennifer Garner is still here, more active than ever.

"It's a very demanding and very unforgiving profession," she said.

"I have preferred the family over work more than once, so it's pretty inconceivable that I'm still working."

A surprisingly good film.

From "Prepare Day" (Photo: Netflix)

Do you ever remember your parents saying "no" to you, and leaving a residue in you?

"I heard a lot of 'no' from my parents. First of all, because I grew up in the eighties. Second thing - because I belong to a very - but very - conservative family. When I was a girl, I painted my nails pink for the prom, and when my dad saw it he shouted at me to take off. It's right away. We were not allowed to wear makeup and no earrings, so I have never worn earrings in my life. In the last year, I got bored looking at myself zooming, so I decided to change my look a bit. I changed my haircut and for the first time in my life, at 48, I made earrings. Yes, I did get his approval, and he told me it was okay. "

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