Jennifer Garner’s latest film, Miracles from Heaven, hopes to inspire movie-goers, but the faith-based movie has already inspired its leading lady.
“I don’t feel like I ever disconnected (from my faith),”; Jen tells ET Canada“s Sangita Patel, “but it did make me realize my kids aren’t going to necessarily have this set of values and this beautiful thing to fall back on in life if I don’t make more of an effort to give it to them.”;
So, after wrapping Miracles from Heaven, not to mention being thrust onto tabloid covers due to her split from Ben Affleck and the proceeding “nannygate”; scandal, Jen found a church and started attending Sunday service every week with her children.
“I grew up in a family that went to church,”; says Jen, “but I did realize that as an adult and a mother, I wasn’t participating in the way that I had as a child, so this movie really did give me and my kids and my family that gift.”;
In Miracles from Heaven, Jen plays a real-life Texas mom whose daughter is ill with a life-threatening disease that miraculously heals after a near-fatal fall from a tree.
“I thought about my own kids in terms of just enormous gratitude for their health, and real perspective about the fact that that’s really all that matters,”; says Jen of the movie’s premise.
Miracles from Heaven opens in theatres March 16.
