Jennifer Garner bit chunk of actor’s ear during fight scene…
Jennifer Garner is a savage.
The actress, 53, shared a wild story about the time she bit a chunk of another actor’s ear off during an Apple TV press event for her thriller collection “The Last Thing He Told Me” in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
During the panel, a clip from the present performed that featured an uniformed man, portrayed by actor and stunt performer Sala Baker, displaying up at Garner’s character Hannah Hall’s house and attacking her in an epic fight scene, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jennifer Garner at the Apple TV press day on February 3. Apple TV by way of Getty Images
Jennifer Garner selling “The Last Thing He Told Me” Season 2 at Apple TV’s press event. Admedia Photo / SplashNews.com
“Can I just say that the performer, Sal, the last time I fought him was in ‘The Kingdom,’” Garner told the viewers, referring to the 2007 action movie that Garner starred in and Baker, 49, performed a kidnapper.
“Pete Berg, who was the director, told him to try to kill me,” the “Alias” actress continued. “We did not have a lot of choreography, and he told me to do anything I could to survive. He did, and I did, and I ended up scrambling onto his back. I bit his ear, and we have a picture of him missing a chunk of ear, because we were not kidding.”
Jenifer Garner in the 2007 film “The Kingdom.” ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection
Sala Baker at the 2006 Wizard World Los Angeles. WireImage
Sala Baker during the sixth Annual Oscar Celebration of New Zealand Filmmaking event. WireImage for New Zealand Consulate General
Nearly 20 years after the incident, Garner and Baker reunited for another fight scene, this time in “The Last Thing He Told Me.”
“We went for it in a way that the crew — this was maybe our first or second day of shooting — were like, ‘Can you be careful with her?’ I was like, ‘No, no, no, no, he’s not going to be careful. I’m not going to be careful. Just back out of the way. I have a score to settle here,’” Garner explained.
“And Sal was with us the entire season,” she added. “So prepare yourselves.”
Jennifer Garner in “The Last Thing He Told Me.” ©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection
Jennifer Garner and Angourie Rice at the Apple TV press day at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Apple TV by way of Getty Images
Garner’s story at the panel shocked her co-star Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, who responded, “Can we just go over that again? You bit a piece of his ear off?”
“Like Mike Tyson,” Garner quipped.
“Why are you all looking as if this is a great thing? What is wrong with you people?” the “Game of Thrones” actor, 55, jokingly told the viewers, as Garner replied, “Don’t make me mad. I seem nice. I’ve warned you before.”
“Oh my god, no, I love you,” Coster-Waldau sweetly told Garner.
Sala Baker arrives at the tenth Annual BAFTA / LA Tea Party in Los Angeles in 2004. Getty Images
Jennifer Garner attends the Apple TV+ press day event on Tuesday, Feb. 3. AFP by way of Getty Images
“The Last Thing He Told Me” is based on a novel by Laura Dave, who govt produces the collection and moderated Tuesday’s panel.
In the present, which returns for Season 2 later this month, Garner performs Hannah, an artist and a newlywed who varieties an surprising relationship along with her stepdaughter Bailey (Angourie Rice) after her husband Owen (Coster-Waldau) goes lacking.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jennifer Garner in “The Last Thing He Told Me” Season 1. ©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection
Jennifer Garner in “The Last Thing He Told Me.” ©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection
Garner beforehand revealed that she pitched herself to get the lead position in the present after she read the guide.
“I was such a huge fan of it, but someone else was attached and [starring in it] was really not a possibility, so I was just excited to see it,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023. “Then I heard early on that the role became available again and thought, ‘There’s no way the women in town will just let me waltz in and have this role. And nor should they!’”
Jennifer Garner in “The Last Thing He Told Me.” ©Apple TV/Courtesy Everett Collection
“The only shot I had was to go right at it right away,” Garner added. “So I put my kids to bed, brewed a pot of coffee, and stayed up all night to make my case.”
“The Last Thing He Told Me” Season 2 premieres Feb. 20 on Apple TV.
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