With her trademark smile and upbeat attitude, Jennifer Garner headed to Harvard University on Saturday to receive the 2022 Hasty Pudding Award from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the university’s prominent theater troupe.
Garner, 49, spent the afternoon cruising through the streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a convertible while flanked by members of the Theatricals in drag.
The Adam Project star, who wore a long black coat, houndstooth trousers, knit mittens, and, of course, her Hasty Pudding medal around her neck, showed off her high kicks as she danced the can-can with students in front of Harvard’s Farkas Hall.
Later that evening, Jennifer Garner took the stage to be presented with the famed pudding pot.
“I guarantee my day was better and more fun than yours. I am a devoted member of the Hasty Pudding Club from now on, and I will be a nerd in the audience next year, I promise,” she told the crowd. “This has been the most fun day ever.”
In the grand tradition of Hasty Pudding, the troupe didn’t hesitate to poke fun at Garner and her roles throughout the years. In a nod to her film Yes Day, she was asked a series of questions that she had to answer. So when the students asked for the details of her first kiss, Garner didn’t hesitate.
“It was a guy named Matt Crittenden. He tried to go further than a kiss, and I swatted it away. He broke up with me the next day because he said I was a prude, which was a badge I’ve worn proudly ever since,” Garner said, laughing. “I was 18!”
Jennifer Garner also spoke candidly about her current life, including a thrilling upcoming milestone.
“I am turning 50 in over 2 months,” she said after the roast. “I’m so excited. Just this morning, I was starting to make some plans and get a little serious. I’m a last-minute planner.”
Jennifer Garner is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City.
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