Jennifer Garner Shares Her Intense Elektra Workout Plan for ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ Including Boxing, Sword Training and Rowing: ‘I Was Fit, but Not Marvel Fit’

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Jordan Moreau Jennifer Garner had to get “Marvel fit” for her “Deadpool & Wolverine” cameo as the sai-wielding assassin Elektra, and she revealed her workout plan in an Instagram video on Monday.

Garner’s return as Elektra was one of the A-list superhero cameos in “Deadpool & Wolverine,” and she revealed that Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy originally pitched the role to her while working together on the 2022 film “The Adam Project.” “I remember the moment @slevydirect and @vancityreynolds had the idea for Elektra Natchios to show up in @deadpoolmovie 3— 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,” Garner wrote on Instagram.

A post shared by Jennifer Garner (@jennifer.garner) Garner posted her Elektra workout regime on Instagram, which included plenty of sai weapon training, aerobics, swimming, boxing, weight lifting, running, jump rope, rowing and more. “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,” she wrote. ” As this impossible dream became reality, my bestie and OG stunt double @shaunaduggins and I amped up our training, led by @bethjnicely at @thelimitfit: 1x/day, plus whatever homework she assigned for a second workout.