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Jennifer Garner had to get "Marvel fit" for her cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine as the sai-wielding assassin Elektra. She shared on Instagram Monday just how she did that through some serious exercise.

arner's reprisal of Elektra is among many A-list superhero cameos in the highly anticipated film. She shared that Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy pitched the role to her while they were working together on the 2022 film The Adam Project. Garner recalls the moment it all went down, sayng, "I remember the moment [Shawn Levy] and [Ryan Reynolds] had the idea for Elektra Natchios to show up in [Deadpool & Wolverine] we were on the set of The Adam Project and they gave each other this look they have that can communicate an idea, 20 pages of dialogue, nuclear codes there is a crazy artistic kismet between those two."

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[This story contains spoilers from Deadpool & Wolverine.]

Deadpool & Wolverine was full of surprises. Besides Blake Lively’s Marvel debut as Lady Deadpool, another unexpected female superhero made a cameo: Elektra.

Now that most spoilers have been revealed nearly two weeks after the film hit theaters, Jennifer Garner has shared how she ended up reprising the role for the first time in 19 years. In an Instagram post, she recalled that while making The Adam Project with Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds, “they gave each other this look they have that can communicate an idea, 20 pages of dialogue, nuclear codes—there is a crazy artistic kismet between those two.”

“Other than trying to convince my kids’ preschool buddies that I was secretly a ninja, I hadn’t picked up Elektra’s sais since 2004; I was fit, but not Marvel fit,” Garner explained. She mentioned that she and her “Og” stunt double Shauna Duggins...

Jennifer Garner shows off her box jumping skills. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency

If there’s one thing actress Jennifer Garner knows in the gym, it’s how to defeat a box jump.

The 13 Going on 30 star, who turned 50 this year, has shown her fans that she has no intentions of slowing down — especially when it comes to hitting her goals with her workouts.

Known to upload “behind-the-scenes” moments from her life on social media, Jennifer recently took to social media with a video that showed her attempting to jump up onto three stacked mats, which had an accumulated height of 33 inches.

With Kanye West’s song Heartless playing in the background amongst a hidden crowd, she first clapped her hands and hyped herself up to attempt the first jump — which she landed on her knees.

“That’s very tall,” she joked.

In the second attempt,...

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