“That part was in her, and I knew that she was setting a tone,” Chloë Sevigny tells PEOPLE of meeting Jennifer Garner at the show’s first table read
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NEED TO KNOW
- Chloë Sevigny and Jennifer Garner had never met before they were cast to play childhood best friends in The Five Star Weekend
- In a joint interview with PEOPLE, the costars recall their first impressions of each other and Sevigny admits she was emotional the first time she heard Garner in character as Hollis Shaw
- The Five Star Weekend is now streaming on Peacock
Chloë Sevigny couldn’t hide her emotions on the set of The Five Star Weekend.
Sevigny, 51, stars in the Peacock series as Tatum, the childhood best friend of Hollis (Jennifer Garner), who, while grieving her husband’s sudden death, assembles her closest friends from throughout her life for a weekend at her Nantucket beach house.
Sevigny and Garner, 54, had never met before starring in the series, an adaptation of Elin Hilderbrand’s 2023 novel.
“It’s wild that we hadn’t met, because we have circled each other,” Garner tells PEOPLE in a joint interview with Sevigny. “I can think of roles where I was up for and ended up going to you, or we could have been together and something. … We’ve both been around a minute.”
“We kind of entered [the industry] almost at the same time,” Sevigny says.
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They met for the first time at the table read for the series. “I was very nervous,” Garner admits.
“I’m very suburban emotionally and the opposite of urban cool — and Chloë is the face of urban cool. That’s who and what she is. She’s Doc Martens. I’m Brooks running shoes.”
Sevigny also felt a mix of emotions the first time she met Garner. “I was very excited at the table read just to hear the words, just to hear Jen owning the words, because as soon as I read it and they had told me that Jen was attached, I was like, ‘There’s nobody else that can play this part, and she is going to kill it.’”
“In that first table read, I was moved to tears, practically,” Sevigny recalls. “That part was in her, and I knew that she was setting a tone for how the rest of the show is going to go, and I was so excited.”
Garner and Sevigny star alongside Regina Hall, D’Arcy Carden and Gemma Chan in the series, and the whole group of actresses — none of whom had met before they were cast — bonded quickly on set.
“My biggest hope and wish is that we get to do a second season of this show so that we can go in knowing each other as well as we do now,” Garner says. “Although we became very close very quickly.”
Sevigny says the cast bonding in real-time “kind of worked to our advantage, in a way,” as it paralleled the show itself. Not all of Hollis’ friends had met before she brought them to Nantucket — Brooke (Carden) and Gigi (Chan) were the newcomers, while there was obvious tension between Tatum (Sevigny) and Dru-Ann (Hall).
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In a possible season 2, Garner, who is also an executive producer, says, “I really trust Bekah Brunstetter, our showrunner, to give us all something to wrestle with.”
“I don’t care where we shoot it,” Sevigny adds. “I just want to be with these ladies again somewhere.”
The Five Star Weekend is now streaming on Peacock.
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