Jennifer Garner was introduced to a few new experiences playing the superhero Elektra . Not only did she end up headlining her own superhero movie, but she kissed another woman for the first time onscreen. And it was an experience she never forgot.
Jennifer Garner had a great kiss with her ‘Elektra’ co-star Garner played the Marvel character Elektra twice in the 2000s. She was first seen in the role in the 2004 Daredevil . Afterwards, Garner reprised the superhero in her titular feature Elektra, which would follow her character’s own independent journey.
But perhaps one of the film’s most memorable moments to some was seeing Garner make out with Elektra co-star Natassia Malthe. She reflected on the experience in an interview with Pride Source . According to the Alias alum , it was a moment that many on set were eager to see.
“It was a great kiss,” she remembered. “I was like, ‘Oh, I get it. Women are softer.
No wonder women kiss women.’ But she also, at the time, had bronchitis, and I remember I was in the middle of a really intense production cycle. So that’s my personal memory of it.
Besides that, it was very fun and every man from the studio who I’d never met or heard from or seen before showed up on set to watch that day.” Garner quipped that it didn’t matter what sexuality the men were, they all showed up. “The gay men, the straight men – they just all suddenly were like, ‘Yeah, we just came for a set visit in the middle of nowhere, in Bri.