Jennifer Garner was ready for the crew! ET's Will Marfuggi spoke to Jane Lynch, one of the OGs of the Starz series, at the show's season 3 premiere Wednesday, about having Garner join the cast.«I think she was really, really happy to be a part of it,» Lynch said of Garner signing on to the revival. «I think she probably saw the show and wanted to be in a comedy ensemble, and James Marsden too — they were both so game, and it would feel like we had been working with them the whole time.»Lynch said Garner fully embraced the silliness of the show's long-standing crew, which includes the alum, Megan Mullally, Adam Scott and more.«When I said she's game, she was game for anything, and you have to be,» she added. «So, she didn't hold back and do the star thing like, 'Oh, I don't do those things.' She was like, 'Yeah, bring it.'»Created by John Enbom, Rob Thomas, Dan Etheridge and Paul Rudd, follows a ragtag team of Hollywood wannabes who moonlight as caterers.
The series’ original ensemble cast featured plenty of now-familiar faces in comedy, including Lynch, Scott, Mullally, Ken Marino, Lizzy Caplan, Ryan Hansen and Martin Starr.But it wasn't so easy to get the gang back together 13 years later.«Well, it took 13 years to do it, and we tried to do a movie at one point, we tried to do the series at another point.
And, to get all of these people together, is kind of like herding actor cats, because everybody's busy,» Lynch said of reviving the show, which first premiered in March 2009.«We all got busy after too,» she continued. «Oh, we were all really free during.
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