Posted on 07/07/2023 2:40:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Actress Jennifer Garner has been accused of racism after an old clip of her on a late-night talk show resurfaced.
Garner, 51, appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in February 2003 to promote her film, Daredevil.
During her appearance, she shared an anecdote about how her co-star, Colin Farrell, got a bit too aggressive in a scene where they were supposed to be kissing and she ended up with a swollen lip the next day.
"There was this moment that the director added where he thought it would be cool if Colin just nibbled on my lip and, I mean there's a lot there to nibble on granted, but every single take, he would go from like a little nibble to...," Garner told O'Brien and started making gnawing sounds to mimic Farrell's actions.
A Mursi tribe woman with a lip plate on January 3, 2014, in Ethiopia. Actress Jennifer Garner arrives at an event on June 3, 2023, in Hollywood, California. Garner has been accused of racism after an old clip of her on a late-night talk show resurfaced.
She then joked that by the end of shooting the scene, Farrell was treating her lip like a meal "and pulling it out and putting ketchup on it."
It was in her next comments and that some people took offense.
"The next morning I woke up...and I walk out into the living room when my [now ex] husband Scott [Foley] sitting there [in shock]," Garner explained before adding, "and Colin said my lip looked like one of those African women with a plate in their mouths."
Garner followed the comment by acting as though she still had a swollen lip, rolled her eyes back and made "monkey noises," according to one Twitter user as a way of imitating the women.
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No apologies especially for benign speech. Tell the accusers to FOAD.
With the 'b' and the 'n' being adjacent on the keyboard You came an eyelash from ever running for office.
LOL!!! So true!!!
Twenty years ago being judged by the culture of today?
She’s dumb as a fence post but not very racist
That’s it? She left out the bone in the nose, the intentional scarring of the face, and the cow dung hair dressing.
I am going to say “not guity.” It’s more of a misdemeanor than a felony, it was twenty (20) years ago, and she is quite fetching in those Neutrogena commercials.
This oughta be fun.
Such nonsense. She isn’t racist.
I hate this crap.
This is beauty for them. Less and less do it nowadays, but some still do it.
Thank God she has enough FU money, but I bet her long time contract with Capital One and Neutregena are about to come to a screeching halt. Why the hell would someone single her out? Such BS.
The media never liked a certain college football coach from PA because he won more games and graduated more players than anyone else, and they went about destroying his legacy in an effort to feel better about themselves.
How is that racist?
Whatever you do, Jennifer, DON’T APOLOGIZE!!!
Start with sucking on lips.
Moving South.
(don’t hit send... don’t
She also regularly attends sunday church service in LA. She’s toast.
No “monkey noises”…….she was being funny about not able to talk with her swollen lip. The real racists are the ones who heard a monkey sound and associated it to a black African woman. Many of us could see that clip and not think she was imitating a monkey, it sure wouldn’t have come to my mind.
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