James Marsden knows that you know him from something.The actor recently sat down with ET to look back at his career, from early TV roles on shows like and to feature parts that made him a household name like and .So, what parts does he get recognized for in public? Marsden told ET that fans will most often stop him on the street to talk about playing Cyclops in Bryan Singer'sfilms the rom-comand, of course, . «I was sitting with Adam Shankman… meeting him for the role [in ] and were were at a cafe off Broadway, and I got a tap on my shoulder and Julia Roberts said, 'Hey I just didn't mean to interrupt, but I wanted to let you know that you were in my favorite movie of all time, which was ,'» he recalled. «I was like, drooling, and she left, and then Adam said, 'We were going to give you the role, but now that kind of sealed it.'»«I think like in the '50s, '60s when people would say is the most romantic movie, now a younger generation would, if you think of what's the most romantic movie that comes to mind, most people would say „he continued. “So I feel very proud to be a part of it — even if I am, you know, the other guy.»The «other guy,» as Marsden describes it, did become something of a theme for the actor at one point in his career.
Jennifer Garner Carries Apple TV+’s Thin but Engrossing ‘The Last Thing He Told Me’: TV Review
12.04.2023 - 20:41 / variety.com
Joshua Alston Jennifer Garner’s star turn came courtesy of “Alias,” the influential J.J. Abrams drama about Sydney Bristow, a grad student moonlighting as a sultry spy. Her agency? A sinister syndicate masquerading as a governmental skunkworks project, as Sydney and her colleagues toil unaware they’ve been working for the bad guys. The pilot opens on Sydney, battered and bloody after being captured and tortured by a rival faction. Then, it hops back in time to show how Sydney’s once-simple life became so treacherous, a journey that reveals to her how little she actually knows about the people closest to her. Perhaps that’s why, some 21 years later, Garner feels so perfectly cast in Apple TV+’s “The Last Thing He Told Me.” (So much so that even Julia Roberts, who dropped out of the role due to scheduling conflicts, suddenly seems mismatched with the material.) Based on the brisk, best-selling novel by Laura Dave, Garner’s new limited series is a much different kind of thriller than “Alias.” But it too revolves around a woman who abruptly learns no one around her is quite who they seem, and becomes determined to find answers even as each revelation places her in greater danger.
“The Last Thing He Told Me” also opens in the midst of a narrative crescendo: Hannah (Garner) frantically searches a hotel lobby trying to locate her teenage stepdaughter, Bailey (Angourie Rice). When the pre-crisis flashback begins, there’s a conspicuous difference in their circumstances. Namely, the presence of Owen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), Hannah’s husband and Bailey’s father. Prior to whatever unpleasantness led to the hotel chase, Hannah is living a fulfilled life in Sausalito. She shares one of the town’s Venetian floating homes with Owen
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Jennifer Garner is back on TV! The actress stars in Apple TV+'s limited series, The Last Thing He Told Me, which is based on Laura Dave's book of the same name.In the limited series, Garner plays Hannah, a woman who works to find out her husband, Owen's (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), secrets after he mysteriously disappears. Along the way she has the help of her teenage stepdaughter, Bailey (Angourie Rice) and her journalist pal, Jules (Aisha Tyler), as well as a U.S.