Overview
- Garner reiterated on TODAY that she “doesn’t apologize” to her children for working and instead thanks them for their patience, a point she first made in an InStyle interview.
- She is starring in Peacock’s limited series The Five-Star Weekend and says she is grateful to be acting again after a long period of reduced work while raising her children.
- Garner told reporters that she only accepts jobs primarily filmed in Los Angeles so she does not have to relocate her family for months at a time and she urged Hollywood to consider filming locally more often.
- Her remarks, discussed publicly on Monday, July 13, frame a deliberate return to careers that balances a continued commitment to motherhood with personal fulfillment from work.
- Garner highlighted that her three children—Violet, 20, Fin, 17, and Samuel, 14—have been supportive, and she advised other parents to “let go of the guilt” over combining work and parenting.