{"id":2386118,"date":"2026-04-23T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2386118"},"modified":"2026-04-23T16:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T16:41:45","slug":"why-judy-greer-felt-she-needed-to-be-on-really-good-behavior-when-meeting-13-going-on-30-costar-jen-garner-for-the-first-time-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-judy-greer-felt-she-needed-to-be-on-really-good-behavior-when-meeting-13-going-on-30-costar-jen-garner-for-the-first-time-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Judy Greer Felt She Needed to Be on &#8216;Really Good Behavior&#8217; When Meeting \u201c13 Going on 30\u201d Costar Jen Garner for the First Time (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Judy Greer recalls meeting Jennifer Garner and discovering how special <em>13 Going on 30 <\/em>would be<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Garner tells PEOPLE about the film&#8217;s set and what she remembers about the environment curated by Greer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Greer shares her story as part of PEOPLE&#8217;s Costar Album<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/judy-greer-feels-very-lucky-be-actress-her-40s-wile-exclusive\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Judy Greer;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Judy Greer<\/a> is grateful her movie friendship with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jennifer-garner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Jennifer Garner;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Jennifer Garner<\/a> has stood the test of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While sitting down with PEOPLE and going through her Co-Star Album, the actress, 50, reminisces about meeting her\u00a0<em>13 Going on 30<\/em>\u00a0co-star turned close friend at an early rehearsal for the film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Joking about Garner&#8217;s known friendly disposition, Greer facetiously began, &#8220;Well, she&#8217;s such a bitch, you know? Like, no one knows that about her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Laughing, she adds, &#8220;Can you imagine? She&#8217;s like the most loved person in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"><strong>PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/strong><\/a><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I just will never forget her walking into that room and just thinking, &#8216;I have to be on really good behavior because this is a really good person.&#8217; And she was so lovely and she was so excited, and she took the work so seriously. I just was really excited by how much fun she wanted to have and how excited she was to have the role.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of herself, Garner, and Mark Ruffalo, Greer continued, &#8220;I think the three of us really felt like this is really something special and we&#8217;re really lucky to be here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Greer credited late director Gary Winick for &#8220;making this so fun, so filled with love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Judy Greer is Jenna Rink on &#8220;13 Going on 30&#8221;<br \/>Credit: United Archives GmbH \/ Alamy Stock Photo<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I miss him so much. He&#8217;s since passed away, and we can&#8217;t ever talk about the movie without mentioning Gary because he created this atmosphere of just love, support, happiness. He was tickled by us, all the time. He was always giggling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, &#8221; I wonder if that&#8217;s what people respond to with\u00a0<em>13 Going on 30<\/em>, is the fact that this is a big studio romantic comedy, but it&#8217;s told from the perspective of a person who wants to make an art movie about growing up and falling in love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;And so, I think that&#8217;s why it still today stands the test of time. I think we all knew that it was going to be different than anything we&#8217;d ever done and we all hoped that we were and we did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Of their relationship today, she adds, &#8220;We had a reunion dinner like a month ago at Donna Roth&#8217;s house. We do this all the time. Jen and I have stayed close friends, but like all of us have stayed in touch and we all root for each other. Maybe I don&#8217;t see someone for a long time, but we&#8217;re all just out there rooting for each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/why-judy-greer-needed-good-behavior-when-meeting-jen-garner-exclusive-11956369\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Judy Greer recalls meeting Jennifer Garner and discovering how special 13 Going on 30 would be Garner tells PEOPLE about the film&#8217;s set and what she remembers about the environment curated by Greer Greer shares her story as part of PEOPLE&#8217;s Costar Album Judy Greer is grateful her movie friendship with Jennifer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2386119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[359541,465109,39283,370337],"class_list":["post-2386118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-13-going-on-30","tag-gary-winick","tag-jennifer-garner","tag-judy-greer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Why-Judy-Greer-Felt-She-Needed-to-Be-on-Really.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2386118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2386120,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386118\/revisions\/2386120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2386119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2386118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2386118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2386118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}