13 Going on 30 REUNION! Watch Jennifer Garner Honor Mark Ruffalo at WOF Ceremony
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00:00 I know this is a question you are all wondering so I'm just gonna cover the elephant in the room
00:04 Why wasn't I asked to do this in the first place?
00:08 I kicked off the Mark Ruffalo rom-com era
00:13 No one's arguing with you there Jen a 13 going on 30 reunion
00:18 Jennifer Garner honors Mark Ruffalo at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on Thursday
00:23 Jennifer Garner who stepped in last minute for a sick Laura Dern reminded the world just how much that
00:29 2004 film set the stage for Mark's rom-com success. You want to know a secret?
00:33 Yeah, you're the sweetest guy I've ever known
00:39 And I wonder if
00:44 my colleagues Reese Witherspoon Jennifer Anderson Gwyneth Keira Knightley
00:50 I wonder if they would agree that Mark owes this rom-com success to the scruffy hair
00:56 The untucked cute button-down both of which became like the norm for cute guys everywhere for the next 20 years
01:02 I wonder if these esteemed ladies
01:04 Enjoyed Mark's anxiety as much as I did. I couldn't have had more fun
01:10 Jen also recalls that iconic thriller dance scene from 13 going on 30
01:22 I wonder if he tried to drop out of their film
01:25 Like he did out of hours after the first rehearsal of the thriller dance where Mark went from
01:32 Kind of shocked that we actually had to do this to antsy to a deathly quiet - bro
01:39 This is not for me. Well, luckily the now Avengers star found the courage
01:48 He even busted out the moves at the Walk of Fame ceremony, what do you remember about working with Jen Garner from that movie?
01:54 Ah, yeah, this is sweet. It's time
01:56 you know, we were both and what she was she was a big star and but I was kind of just starting out and
02:01 and and she was just so lovely and
02:05 We were making this
02:08 Really sweet movie that had a great
02:10 message for young girls and we were all sort of like
02:16 Coming into our own at that moment and we really loved that story to work with you. Mark is to love you
02:23 I don't care what anyone says Jen ended her speech by reflecting on the impact marks made on Hollywood
02:29 You allow yourself to be fully known by your colleagues by the audience by the world
02:34 your work on poor things
02:37 Deserves all of the awards all of them
02:41 But the real success is in how thrilled and delighted your colleagues are to have the opportunity to lift you up and celebrate you
02:49 Every time your name is called Hollywood takes a deep collective breath and says, okay the good and right thing has happened
02:58 Last month the actor opened up about how 13 going on 30 helped changed the trajectory of his career
03:05 well, I you know, it's my first kind of studio film and
03:10 You know, I've been doing pretty small indies up to that point and Gary Winnick
03:14 our director said I want to I want to do a small indie but in a rom-com studio film and
03:20 you know is
03:23 Jen Garner who is just magical and we had just a wonderful
03:29 chemistry together and
03:32 I think people started to see me in a lot
03:35 More different kinds of elevated roles and that I've been playing up to that time
03:40 Fast forward 20 years later a well-deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Congrats, Mark
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