Jennifer Garner & Chloë Sevigny Talk Scorpios and ‘13 Going on 30’ for ELLE

America’s Sweetheart Meets The Ultimate Cool Girl Without Missing A Beat

Jennifer Garner and Chloë Sevigny may have built careers in very different corners of Hollywood, but ELLE’s latest “Ask Me Anything” proves the pairing makes immediate sense.

The Five-Star Weekend co-stars bounce through questions about Scorpios, personal quirks, friendship and Garner’s endlessly rewatchable 13 Going on 30. It is less a formal press stop than two actors discovering how much fun it is to sit beside somebody who can keep the conversational ball in the air.

Garner brings her familiar warmth and zero-fuss enthusiasm, while Sevigny supplies that famously cool delivery with flashes of dry humor underneath. Together, they create the kind of chemistry that makes a rapid-fire interview feel like the beginning of a much longer backstage conversation.

The two actors came together onscreen for Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend, adapted from Elin Hilderbrand’s 2023 novel. Garner stars as Hollis Shaw, a successful food personality grieving a life-changing loss who gathers friends from different periods of her life for a restorative Nantucket getaway.

Sevigny plays Hollis’ childhood friend Tatum, joining an ensemble that also includes Regina Hall, Gemma Chan and D’Arcy Carden. The setup gives the cast room to explore friendship, grief, aging, ambition and all the emotional debris that follows women into a supposedly relaxing weekend away.

Garner has admitted she was nervous about meeting Sevigny before filming because their careers had circled each other without ever properly connecting. To Garner, the downtown fashion and indie-film icon had long occupied a pedestal. The intimidation apparently dissolved quickly once the cast began filming beach scenes, sleepover chaos and a freezing pajama dance party together.

That newly formed friendship is what gives the ELLE video its charm. Garner never treats Sevigny’s cool reputation as something untouchable, and Sevigny responds with an ease that reveals the goofy, candid person behind decades of carefully projected mystique.

Naturally, 13 Going on 30 still enters the conversation. More than two decades after Jenna Rink wished herself into adulthood, the film remains attached to Garner in the best possible way: as a comfort classic whose humor, sweetness and “30, flirty and thriving” fantasy have survived several generations of sleepovers.

The contrast between that glossy 2004 rom-com and Sevigny’s art-house résumé could have made this pairing feel random on paper. In practice, it is the entire appeal. Garner’s suburban sunshine meets Sevigny’s downtown cool, and neither woman has to flatten herself for the other.

By the time the questions reach astrology, old roles and the little details of their personalities, the interview has stopped feeling like promotion and started resembling two new friends comparing notes. Dig out the full ELLE exchange below.

Watch Jennifer Garner And Chloë Sevigny Answer Anything

ELLE’s full “Ask Me Anything” video finds the Five-Star Weekend co-stars discussing Scorpios, 13 Going on 30, their personalities and plenty more.

Source: ELLE official YouTube and ELLE.