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Esquire Women We Love
Jennifer Garner admits that Sydney Bristow, the double agent she plays on ABC's Alias, might lose a fight with some of her peers in the ass-kicking- women genre. "Buffy has supernatural powers, the Dark Angel is genetically altered, and Lara Croft has those guns in her socks," she notes. "But mano a mano? If it was just fists and kicks? I'd say they'd have to get up pretty early."
Damn right. Mercifully, though, Alias isn't about empowerment. It's about payback. And Garner is no teenybopper. She's a twenty-nine-year-old woman. Here she roars:
ESQ: Is pummeling people with your hands and feet something that comes naturally?
JG: It's becoming more natural, yeah. I'm starting to have all these violent dreams. The other night the alarm went off in our house—the dog somehow set it off—and my husband, Scott, and I were creeping down the hall to make sure no one was in the house. He had a baseball bat, and I was behind him, and I was thinking, What can I do first? Elbow? Knee to the crotch? Backspin hook kick? So it's definitely bleeding over.
ESQ: Scott must love it when you rough him up a little.
JG: You know, I almost wish he did, but he is so uninterested in my new . . . abilities. He's pretty well taken care of by Jennifer, so he's not that interested in the whole Sydney thing. But if he ever acted up, I would bloody his nose so fast. . . .
ESQ: Who would win in a fight between Martha Stewart and Condoleezza Rice?
JG: Martha, without a doubt. I wouldn't tussle with Martha.
—Brendan Vaughan
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