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Jennifer Garner revealed that she once bit off a portion of a stunt performer's ear while filming a fight sequence for her 2007 movie The Kingdom
Garner reunited with the stunt performer in question, Sala Baker, for the upcoming season of her Apple TV series The Last Thing He Told Me
The Last Thing He Told Me's second season begins streaming Feb. 20
Jennifer Garneris revealing she once pulled off a feat more commonly associated with boxerMike Tyson.
Garner, 53, told reporters at a Tuesday, Feb. 3 press day for her Apple TV seriesThe Last Thing He Told Mein Santa Monica, Calif. that she once bit a portion of a stunt performer's ear off while filming a fight sequence for her 2007 movieThe Kingdom, according toThe Hollywood Reporter.
After Garner and her costarNicolaj Coster-Waldaupresented a scene fromThe Last Thing He Told Me'supcoming season, in which Garner performs a fight sequence with actor and stunt performer Sala Baker, the actress noted that she previously worked with Baker onThe Kingdom.
"Pete Berg, who was the director, told him to try to kill me. We did not have a lot of choreography, and he told me to do anything I could to survive," she recalled. "He did, and I did, and I ended up scrambling onto his back. I bit his ear, and we have a picture of him missing a chunk of ear, because we were not kidding."
Garner also noted that when she and Baker reunited forThe Last Thing He Told Me, the series' crew asked him, " 'Can you be careful with her?' " "I was like, 'No, no, no, no, he's not going to be careful. I'm not going to be careful. Just back out of the way. I have a score to settle here.' And Sal was with us the entire season," she said. "So prepare yourselves."
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Garner specifically said that she bit Baker's ear "like Mike Tyson," when Coster-Waldau asked her further about the incident. Tyson, 59, was famously disqualified from a boxing match against Evander Holyfield in 1997 after hebit off a portion of Holyfield's ear. "Why are you all looking as if this is a great thing? What is wrong with you people?" Coster-Waldau jested.
"Don't make me mad. I seem nice. I've warned you before," Garner responded with a smile, perTHR.
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Garner costarred with Jamie Foxx, Chris Cooper and Jason Bateman inThe Kingdom, an action-thriller that follows a group of FBI agents who travel to Saudi Arabia to investigate terror attacks on American and Saudi citizens in the country.
The Last Thing He Told Me's second season begins streaming on Apple TV Feb. 20.
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