Alongside Ben Affleck, the actress portrayed the Marvel character in the 2003 film “Daredevil” and the 2005 stand-alone movie “Elektra.”
Twenty years later, Jennifer Garner is resuming her previous heroic role.
According to The Hollywood Reporter and a source who confirmed the hiring to PEOPLE, the actress will reprise her role as Elektra in the upcoming Deadpool 3. Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman reprise their roles as Wolverine in the Disney and Marvel Cinematic Universe-affiliated Deadpool sequel, which is now shooting in London.
Requests for confirmation from PEOPLE were not immediately answered by Disney or Garner representatives.
With her now-ex-husband Ben Affleck, 51-year-old Garner originally appeared as the assassin Elektra in the 2003 picture Daredevil before reprising the role in her own 2005 feature.
Garner admitted to being dissatisfied with her stand-alone Elektra movie to THR back in 2021, especially after witnessing how future Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige produced popular Marvel movies after Garner’s time.
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Since Kevin took over, everything there has improved, including the writing, the direction, and the humor included inside the stories they were telling. She remarked at the time, “And I did not have that experience.
Shawn Levy, who collaborated with Garner and Reynolds on the Netflix film The Adam Project, is the director of Deadpool 3.
Garner discussed her difficulties acting at the time in Elektra’s form-fitting outfit in a recent Glamour interview. She claimed that in order to utilize the sai weapons, she also undertook significant martial arts instruction.
Every time I wanted to urinate, I had to be cut out of and stitched back into the pleather pants, which took about 45 minutes. I did, in fact, hold it in. To create Elektra’s fake boobs, I used a ton of chicken cutlets; I believe there were three on each side in various sizes. And everything was raised and pushed outside.
“I was just this close to a wardrobe malfunction at all times,” she continued. “This stuff can’t be made safe with as much tape as there is in the world.”
