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LOOK: Jennifer Garner pays tribute to Mark Ruffalo at the Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony
Mark Ruffalo was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, and his “13 Going on 30” co-star Jennifer Garner paid tribute to her old friend with a hilarious and heartfelt speech.
Ruffalo, who earned his fourth Oscar nomination last month for his work on “Poor Things,” attended the event with his wife, Sunrise Coigney, and their three children: Keen, Bella and Odette.
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Garner, who 20 years ago starred alongside Ruffalo in the 2004 romantic comedy “13 Going on 30,” gave a hilarious speech that she said she wrote in the car on the way to the ceremony after being asked to speak the night before.
“Why didn’t they ask me to do this in the first place?” she asked jokingly. “I started the era of Mark Ruffalo romantic comedies!”
“Thank God I showed up,” Garner added. “I have to be here to honor and elucidate the romantic comedy Ruffalo.”
The “Alias” alum talked about how “lucky” she and Ruffalo are to have starred in a movie that “still means something to people.”
Garner mocked Ruffalo for trying to quit “13 Going on 30” after the first rehearsal for what became one of the film’s most memorable scenes: the “Thriller” dance sequence, which the two recreated for a photoshoot.
“Mark went from being a little surprised that we had to do this, to unsettled, to dead silent, to ‘bro, this isn’t for me,'” he recalled.
All joking aside, Garner praised Ruffalo for his acting skills and said he “added depth to what was light.”
“She was soft, mercurial. You never see the work,” he continued, noting that the through line from “13 Going on 30” to “Poor Things” is her clarity of purpose, understanding of the story, championing her characters, being a person of character, presenting himself to his co-stars, taking his family with him at every moment and presenting himself with joy.
“To work with you, Mark, is to love you. I don’t care what anyone says,” he said, ending with one last laugh.
Also speaking at Ruffalo’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony was his friend Timothy McNeil, who read a speech of his own, as well as one from Laura Dern, who had to withdraw from the event due to illness, and David Fincher, who directed Ruffalo in “Zodiaco” in 2007.