Jennifer Garner gushes over role in new Peacock series, compares it to her own life: ‘Can’t think of anything I’ve enjoyed more’

Jennifer Garner tin do it each connected screen.

Equal parts sweetener and spice, nan beloved Hollywood prima has played maestro assassin Elektra successful nan Marvel films, while besides portraying loveable teen-turned-mag-editor Jenna Rink successful nan classical rom-com “13 Going connected 30.”

But nan character says she’s ne'er identified much pinch a characteristic than nan 1 she plays successful nan upcoming miniseries, “The Five-Star Weekend,” which premieres locally on BINGE on July 9.

The full-length trailer for nan Peacock bid was released connected Tuesday, and it shows Garner successful her element.

The real-life prima we’ve each travel to cognize and emotion done her endearing societal media cooking and farming videos appears to beryllium embodied successful her caller on-screen character, Hollis Shaw – a famed navigator and best-selling writer who has impeccable sensation and a lukewarm demeanor.

“The much I read, nan much it amazed me, and nan much it resonated pinch me, and each of nan ways that Hollis and I are alike were benignant of shocking to me,” Garner told Hello! magazine of nan script, which is based connected writer Elin Hilderbrand’s 2023 caller of nan aforesaid name.

“All of nan ways we are different were really nosy for me. And I person recovered that cooking successful beforehand of a camera, this is nan first clip I’ve ever utilized thing that I love, which is cooking and baking, connected camera arsenic a character. And I recovered it to be, for illustration Hollis does, really calming, really settling,” she added.

“Acting for maine is ever like, ‘Do I cognize what I’m doing?’ And successful that [setting] I was like, ‘Oh no, I cognize really to do this. I americium perfectly astatine location here. I cognize this character.’ It’s really been a blast.”

In nan series, Hollis’ picture-perfect life is soon turned upside down erstwhile she suffers nan devastating nonaccomplishment of her husband.

Unable to move on, nan grieving widow invites 4 friends from different chapters of her life to a coastal getaway. But it doesn’t precisely spell to scheme arsenic tensions emergence and secrets are uncovered complete nan people of nan weekend.

“The decease starts to expose nan cracks successful Hollis’s picture-perfect life – her strained marriage, her analyzable narration pinch her daughter, and her increasing pursuit of validation from her fans,” sounds nan logline for nan series.

“In an effort to flooded condolences and find herself again, Hollis gets nan thought to big a play distant astatine her location connected Nantucket pinch 3 friends from different stages successful her life: her childhood, her twenties, her thirties, and 1 astonishment 5th star.

“Set against a luxurious and coastal backdrop, nan stars will mature successful ways they could ne'er ideate arsenic boundaries are pushed and secrets are exposed.”

Hollis’ friends are played by Chloë Sevigny (“American Horror Story”), Regina Hall (“One Battle After Another”), Gemma Chan (“Crazy Rich Asians”) and D’Arcy Carden (“The Good Place”).

Rising prima Harlow Jane – nan girl of Hollywood stars Patricia Arquette and Thomas Jane – will play Garner’s on-screen daughter, Caroline, pinch whom she shares a analyzable relationship.

“I deliberation this is simply a domiciled astir friendship. It’s a domiciled astir increasing astatine this shape successful your life,” Garner told Hello!.

“It’s women who are successful nan mediate of this – what is their adjacent section going to be? What’s their adjacent communicative going to be? Their communicative is not done.

“I conscionable can’t deliberation of thing I’ve enjoyed much than being pinch this group and doing this domiciled this summer.”