Keys to ‘The Kingdom’
LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Garner doesn’t plan to let her almost 2-year-old daughter, Violet, see mommy’s new war drama until she’s all grown up.
“I would put that off as long as I could,” said Garner at Monday’s premiere for The Kingdom, an R-rated film about an FBI unit that journeys to Saudi Arabia to investigate a murder (in theaters Sept. 28). “There’s a reason we have a ratings system.”
Neither Garner, 35, nor her co-star Jamie Foxx, 39, had any interest in war games as kids.
Garner, who grew up in West Virginia, said, “Playing war never ever would have interested me.” Rather, she enjoyed “reading, writing and pretending.”
And other than playing with his “little green army men,” Texas-born Foxx recalled no war play as a boy. “And none of my little green army men ever fired their guns,” said Foxx, an advocate for peace even back then. “My toy soldiers were partyin’.”