Jennifer Garner and ex-husband Ben Affleck previously played Marvel heroes Elektra and Daredevil together on the big screen
Jennifer Garner delivers a playful joke about ex-husband Ben Affleck in Deadpool & Wolverine.
The actress reprises her role of Elektra in the new sequel that stars Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. The film — which is full of jaw-dropping cameos and past Marvel actors — is directed by Shawn Levy, with whom Garner made the 2022 movie The Adam Project.
In one scene, Reynolds’ Deadpool is expressing condolences to former Marvel movie characters who hadn’t survived the wasteland world where variants from different timelines go to be erased.
When he mentions Daredevil, a character Affleck previously played, Garner’s Elektra quickly says, “Oh, it’s fine,” in regards to him being gone.
Last summer, reports broke that Garner would reprise the role almost 20 years later in Deadpool & Wolverine.
Garner first played the role of the Marvel comic book character back in 2003’s Daredevil opposite Affleck. She later got her own standalone Elektra movie in 2005.
She and Affleck, 51, married in 2009, and they share three kids. They announced they were divorcing in 2015 and officially filed for divorce in April 2017; their divorce was finalized the following year.
In a recent Glamour interview, Garner recalled her struggles working in Elektra’s tight-fitting costume at the time. She said she also underwent extensive martial arts training to use the sai weapons.
“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 in. And I had so many chicken-cutlet fake boobs in to make Elektra’s boobs; I think there were three on each side of different sizes. And everything was pushed up and out.”
