Last week, Jennifer Garner hosted a reunion of “Alias” cast and crew to mark the 20th anniversary of the show’s premiere. Thankfully, she took video.
Garner actually joined TikTok just so she could make her first post a video featuring clips from the reunion. “The 20th anniversary also seemed like as good an excuse as any to join TikTok,” she joked on Instagram.
“Alias” premiered on ABC on September 30, 2001, and made Jennifer Garner (who played superspy Sydney Bristow) an instant star. Series creator JJ Abrams would go on to become one of Hollywood’s hottest directors, helming films like the Star Trek reboot, Super 8, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
Shown in the clip are lots of crew members, as well as cast members Victor Garber, Merrin Dungey, Michael Vartan, Kevin Weisman, and Gina Torres.
Garner later stated that Abrams could not attend due to a scheduling conflict, and Lena Olin (who played Sydney’s mother Irina Derevko), who lives overseas, could not make it. She did, however, respond to Garner’s Instagram post saying “my heart and soul was there!”
Mia Maestro, who played Sydney’s long-lost sister Nadia, also responded saying “Super sad I was not in town for this reunion. As always @jennifergarner you are making magic happen.”
Garner talked about the reunion on Instagram. “Twenty years ago this week, tonight in fact, #Alias aired for the first time on @abcnetwork. If you’re an idea born of @jjabramsofficial’s brain— you’re a big one; JJ’s ambitious imagination pushed every department on the crew of Alias through and past the norm, it was so much FUN.”
Garner also revealed that an official reunion of some sort will be happening. “Since the end of the show, April of 2005, running into a cast or crew member from Alias has always led to this question—When will you get everyone back together for a reunion? The 20th anniversary seemed like as good an excuse as any, so the call went out—reunion party is happening, pass it on!”
Here’s the reunion video posted to TikTok.
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