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Jennifer Garner made a surprise appearance at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday for the Deadpool & Wolverine panel. Jen reprises her role as Elektra from the 2005 film with the same name. That film was a spin-off of 2003’s Daredevil, where she met Ben Affleck. I didn’t realize this, but it was her first Comic-Con! I guess DD and Elektra came out before Comic-Con really blew up in 2008/2009 thanks to the Twilight movies, so SDCC wasn’t a part of the must-promote-at circuit.
Jen appeared as one of many surprise guests who make cameos in the movie. I won’t spoil you on anyone else, but there are some good ones! On Saturday, Jen found herself stuck in an elevator at the Hard Rock Hotel with an attendant and members of her team. The HRH is just across from the convention center and one of a few hotels downtown where celebrities and panelists stay. They also do a lot of press and have industry parties there. So what does a gal with a big personality and a lot of social media followers do when she’s stuck in an elevator? Why chronicle the entire adventure, of course!
Garner posted a series of seven videos capturing moments in time while she was stuck, each with a timestamp in the righthand corner. First responders finally arrived on the scene after an hour and 12 minutes, per the post.
“Hey guys, um, we’re stuck on this elevator,” Garner began in a clip from two minutes into the ordeal.
“I could use a Wolverine, I could use a Deadpool, I could use someone,” she continued, adding that she would look for stairs in the future. “Thanks for having us here. My first Comic-Con.”
At 11 minutes in, the Family Switch star, who was wearing a floral top and jeans, said: “It’s toasty, I’m sphitzy, I need to blot.”
“Don’t cut the blue wire is what we’re hearing,” she joked to the camera.
In the next video slide, Garner was sitting on the elevator floor because she said she heard on Brooklyn Nine-Nine or The Office that it’s what someone is “supposed to do” when stuck in an elevator.
By 41.5 minutes in, the Juno actress was leading her group in a round of the popular song “99 Bottles of Beer.” (There was an elevator attendant, a man in a suit and people from her team off-camera, but no one else was singing.)
“We’re 45 minutes in. We’re calling 9-1-1,” Garner whispered to the camera in the fifth clip, which panned to people with their cell phones out.
“I thought we were in Vegas,” she whispered when someone said they were in San Diego.
An hour into the journey, the elevator began beeping, lights went on, and Garner started singing Madonna’s hit “Like a Prayer.”
Garner’s eyes went wide with excitement at 1 hour and 12 minutes into the saga when she realized first responders had arrived and everyone started cheering.
Being trapped in an elevator is a lot of people’s worst nightmare, especially if you’re claustrophobic. The videos are funny and it’s endearing how she seems to be the only one in the elevator who’s taking it all in stride. That poor elevator attendant, though! He thought his day was going to be full of pressing buttons for famous people to ride on the elevator and he had to do some unexpected field work. I would not have waited an hour to call 911, though! If it couldn’t be fixed within 15 minutes, I would have been on the phone so fast.
One of our good friends stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel during SDCC about eleven or twelve years ago, and I remember him complaining about how slow the elevators were back then! We were all so jealous that he randomly managed to book a room there through the hotel lottery, and he was all, “It’s super cool here but the bathrooms have glass doors so there’s no privacy and the elevators are really slow.” I’ve never forgotten that tidbit about the bathrooms, lol. Anyway, the hotel is lucky that this happened to a good-natured actress during the daytime and not during a big press event or party.
Saw this on her IG yesterday and 1/2 the comments were about the really good looking firefighter at the end when the doors opened, lol!
I stayed there for a conference once and yes, elevators are slower than molasses in January.
Rosie-Jen A and Ben were in Pearl Harbor before Daredevil. Pepperidge Farms remembers.
I was coming to say the same thing!
Ahhh I completely forgot about that movie! Thank you both for correcting me!!
One of the ways I avoid gaining weight on holiday is taking the stairs 🤷♀️
Saw it all on her Insta y’day. Incredibly impressed how calm and good natured Jennifer was through it all. I would have been hysterical as I’m so claustrophobic……or unconscious after hyper ventilating! Well done Jen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Jennifer Garner sounds like the best celebrity to be stuck on an elevator with. I don’t want to think about some others.
I love her Instagram. The post of her washing her cat will make your day.
I got stuck on an elevator at a hospital with my husband going up to see my mom in recovery. It was just the two of us on a Friday late afternoon. My husband was smart & used the bathroom before we got on the elevator. We had just stopped for lunch at the hospital cafeteria. We were stuck for about an hour between floors. They said if they could not get ahold of the elevator guy, they may have to get a helicopter to get us out! Fortunately, they were able to call him back to the hospital ( Apparently, he had been there servicing the elevators & had left for the day) & he got us out!
Unfortunately, I think it happens alot!
JG at least had fun with it..