Overview
- Garner said in a Thursday interview with Entertainment Weekly that Ben Affleck has been an “incredible co‑parent” whose caregiving gave her the freedom to accept the part.
- She initially turned down the role because the production planned to shoot outside Los Angeles and she could not leave their three teenagers for four months.
- When producers revised the schedule to film mainly in Los Angeles with a single month in Nantucket, Garner agreed to star and serve as an executive producer.
- The eight‑episode series The Five Star Weekend began streaming July 9 on Peacock and Garner is actively promoting the show.
- Garner and Affleck, parents of Violet, Seraphina and Samuel, say their cooperative post‑divorce co‑parenting has let her pursue more work as the children grow older.