Jennifer Garner Camping HBO Interview October 2018
Jennifer Garner Gets Ready to "Lean Into the Cringe" on Camping
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But while the show tackles some heartfelt and heavy topics — infidelity, racism, midlife crises — it is, at its heart, a comedy. The campground setting raises all the interpersonal stakes as often as it provides comedic relief. And the fact that it was shot outdoors also made for a memorable experience for the cast and crew. According to Konner, there were "a million snakes" on set, necessitating a full-time rattlesnake handler.
"At one point we were shooting and in the middle of kind of an intense scene, and it was dusk or starting to be dark. And all of a sudden, in the middle of a take, Jenni, all the producers, and the script supervisors, they're all in the shot with us," Garner laughs. "We're focussed, and we're kind of like, 'What are you doing?' And they said, 'We heard a rattle!'"