Picture this: a 22-year-old Jennifer Garner stepping off a bus in New York City with a suitcase, a theatre degree and just a few hundred dollars to her name. No blockbuster contracts. No stylists. Just a girl from Charleston, West Virginia, who’d grown up doing church plays and community theater, suddenly standing in a city where rent alone could swallow her entire bank account.
Garner had just graduated from Denison University with a degree in theater and a head full of classic plays and stage dreams. Instead of heading straight to Hollywood, she did what “serious actors” were supposed to do in the ’90s — she went to New York to chase the stage, not the red carpet.
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