Jennifer Garner feels a little possessive about her icon 13 Continues 30 dress.
During an appearance on Wednesday’s episode Viewactress, 51, shared her thoughts on Versace’s colorful blink-and-you’ll-miss-it mini dress in a 2003 episode of Sex and the city. She said that when she saw the look on screen, she found herself thinking, “Get out of my dress! Give me back my dress! I want that dress!”
She also explained how the design — worn by her character Jenna Rink in a memorable dance scene in the 2004 fantasy rom-com “Thriller” — ended up in the HBO series a year before her own star appeared in it.
“First of all, you’re not supposed to keep your clothes. And I’m a good shoe, so I’m not,” she said of her on-set wardrobe. “And also, who could have ever imagined that this movie would be more than just something that just comes and goes?”
“And yes, it ended up in storage with the rest of the clothes from the movie,” she continued of the dress.
Garner also wasn’t thrilled that the dress “ended up in the background” on Sex and the city scene, worn by a theatergoer as Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) and her friends attended a play by Smith Jerrod (played by Jason Lewis). “It was just put on the background player Sex and the city‘, she joked.
The actress confessed 13 Continues 30To Susie DeSanto, the “incredible” costume designer for sourcing the dress, which has become one of the most iconic looks on screen, inspiring countless Halloween costumes and even celebrity tributes — including Ariana Grande, who wore it in a 2021 episode of the series. Vote.
Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo in ’13 Going on 30′.
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“We worked together maybe every seven or eight [projects] since then, so has she Family switch [Garner’s new movie]” Garner said of DeSanto. “She knows how to come up with a good, good fun dress.”
So good that Garner wishes it was hanging in her closet today. “Believe me, we talk about it all the time. We want to!” she answered when asked if the couple could get it back.
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The Golden Globe winner previously spoke about the iconic status of the dress in an interview with Glamour earlier this year. “Susie and I can’t believe how much this dress keeps popping up and how many for Halloween every year more Jenna Rinks than less,” she told the magazine.
She also turned to Sex and the city cameo. “You’ll see it appear on a background player who’s squeezed into a theater seat, and it was just, you know, a dress pulled out and put on in the background and then who knows where it ended up?” she noted.
“But, unfortunately, I don’t have it,” she added.
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During it View look, Project Adam the star also reflected on 13 Continues 30The enduring popularity and how fans still stop her to comment on their love for the film which also starred Mark Ruffalo.
“What is it?” she reflected on the film’s timeless appeal. “It just came out on Netflix and I’m really feeling it. Whenever it airs somewhere, people stop me. ‘I watched it again last night.’ ”
“It’s so sweet, it’s such a comforting movie for so many people,” she added. – That makes me so happy.
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