Jennifer Garner recently shared a startling behind-the-scenes story from one of her past action films, one that involved real pain, raw instinct, and a missing piece of an ear. While promoting her latest project, the actor looked back on a fight scene that went far beyond rehearsed moves, revealing how survival mode took over during a chaotic shoot nearly two decades ago.<\/p>\n
Jennifer Garner details biting a costar\u2019s ear while filming a fight scene<\/p>\n
The incident occurred during the filming of the 2007 thriller The Kingdom, in which Garner worked opposite New Zealand-born actor and stunt performer Sala Baker. Speaking at a press conference for Season 2 of The Last Thing He Told Me, Garner said she recently reunited with Baker on set, which brought back memories of their intense earlier collaboration.<\/p>\n
According to Garner, the original fight scene in The Kingdom had very little choreography. Director Peter Berg encouraged both performers to fully commit and react naturally. \u201cWe did not have a lot of choreography, and he told me to do anything I could to survive,\u201d she recalled in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the middle of the struggle, Garner said instinct kicked in. She remembered climbing onto Baker\u2019s back and biting his ear, hard enough to leave visible damage. \u201cI bit his ear, and we have a picture of him missing a chunk of ear,\u201d she said. When asked to clarify, Garner compared the moment to Mike Tyson\u2019s infamous 1997 boxing match incident, simply saying, \u201cLike Mike Tyson.\u201d<\/p>\n The intensity didn\u2019t stop there. Garner said that while working again with Baker on The Last Thing He Told Me, they brought the same aggressive energy to their scenes. Crew members reportedly urged caution early in the shoot, but Garner wasn\u2019t interested in dialing it down. \u201cHe\u2019s not going to be careful. I\u2019m not going to be careful,\u201d she said, joking that she had \u201ca score to settle.\u201d<\/p>\n Originally reported by Rishabh Shandilya on ComingSoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Jennifer Garner Recalls Biting Costar\u2019s Ear \u2018Like Mike Tyson\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Garner recently shared a startling behind-the-scenes story from one of her past action films, one that involved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,142440,85,46,8129,92866,142439],"class_list":{"0":"post-275100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-fight-scene","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-jennifer-garner","13":"tag-mike-tyson","14":"tag-sala-baker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}