Jennifer Garner and Judy Greer react to the shocking pipeline between 13 Happening 30 and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Within the romantic comedy, the 13-year-old Jenna Rink (Christa B. Allen) needs that she might go away 1987 and fast-forward to being “Thirty, flirty, and thriving.” Her want comes true, with Garner taking part in the 30-year-old model of the character that wakes up in 2004, the place she works at a vogue journal with Lucy Wyman (Judy Greer). Because the film was launched in 2004, Garner has appeared within the MCU’s Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) as Elektra and Judy Greer portrays Scott Lang’s ex-wife Maggie in Ant-Man (2015) and Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018).
In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Ash Crossan for The Final Factor He Instructed Me season 2, Garner and Greer focus on their favourite elements of the 13 Happening 30, which embody the “Thriller” scene, attending to discover New York Metropolis, and being a part of “a lighting-in-a-bottle” mission. They handle how their co-stars, Mark Ruffalo and Andy Serkis, have gone to star within the Marvel Cinematic Universe as nicely. Greer additionally mentions how individuals overlook that she performs Cornelia, the spouse of Serkis’ Caesar within the Planet of the Apes franchise. Try Garner and Greer’s feedback beneath:
Jennifer Garner: The “Thriller.” However actually, for us, once we’re collectively, it’s simply eager about working round New York. Oh my God — how younger we have been, how a lot enjoyable, what an enormous deal it was for us. And it was an enormous deal for us with out considering it will be an enormous deal for the world.
Judy Greer: Yeah, that was my greatest position. You have been starring in a romantic comedy. Mark [Ruffalo] was starring in a romantic [comedy] — I don’t know. It was type of a lightning-in-a-bottle second. Our director, Gary Winnick, was an angel on earth. He actually was. Our producers have been these nice ladies. We received fortunate. It was actually particular.
Jennifer Garner: I do know — isn’t that wild? Even Andy Serkis, who you labored with. He was your ape husband.
Judy Greer: Yeah — he was my ape husband. Ape husband. Yeah. It was humorous as a result of I used to be all the time like, “Oh, Andy and I labored collectively earlier than when he performed a human man.” Individuals overlook. He was our loopy boss.
As Bruce Banner/the Hulk, Ruffalo is likely one of the actors who most incessantly seems within the MCU films. His first look was in The Avengers (2012) and he’s within the franchise’s subsequent movie, Spider-Man: Model New Day (2026). In the meantime, Serkis performs the villainous Ulysses Klaue, an arms vendor launched in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) who returns in Black Panther (2018). Yet one more 13 Happening 30 solid member within the MCU that Garner and Greer don’t point out is Brie Larson, identified for her portrayal of Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel, who performs a member of the imply woman clique often known as the Six Chicks.
Greater than 20 years later, the romantic comedy that initially introduced these actors continues to have a beloved repute. In ScreenRant‘s 13 Happening 30 evaluation, revealed in 2025, Rachel LaBonte writes that “Jenna learns to worth her kindness, her creativity, and her massive coronary heart, which are sometimes issues women really feel they’ve to go away behind as they become older. That Jenna embraces all of it and will get again in contact with herself, all whereas falling in love with a really dreamy Mark Ruffalo, is a wonderful arc that I am certain hits house for a lot of ladies watching right now.”
Whereas Ruffalo is now broadly related together with his MCU character, Matty Flamhaff in 13 Happening 30 is a defining position in his profession, whereas Serkis performed Jenna and Lucy’s boss, Richard Kneeland, earlier than becoming a member of the MCU, Planet of the Apes, or Star Wars franchises. As for Garner and Greer, followers can see them reunite in season 2 of Apple TV’s The Final Factor He Instructed Me.
The Final Factor He Instructed Me season 2 debuts on February 20, solely on Apple TV.
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