1 of 5 | “13 Going on 30” co-stars Jennifer Garner (L) and Judy Greer have reunited for Season 2 of “The Last Thing He Told Me.” Photo courtesy of Apple TV
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (UPI) — Jurassic World and Halloween actress Judy Greer says she was happy to join Season 2 of the mystery drama, The Last Thing He Told Me, in part because she got to work again with her 13 Going on 30 co-star Jennifer Garner.
“It was really fun. It was fun to be able to see her face every day, for sure. And then we had the same costume designer as that movie that we did all those years ago, Susie De Santo, which we loved, and our makeup artist Cindy Williams, also did that movie,” Greer, 50, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview. “So, there was quite a bit of a reunion going on.”
Greer was also relieved to be jumping into a show that was already a hit with viewers.
“I felt like I was marrying into a very cool, successful family, and I didn’t have to do much to prove myself,” she recalled.
“They were all very close and just totally opened up the circle to let me in,” Greer added. “It’s like being around family. They’re compassionate and people are allowed to be vulnerable. People are allowed to take what they need for the moment that they have to service the script. But, also, it is a lot of fun and we do joke around a lot.”
The screen adaptation of Laura Dave’s books returned Friday with its first new episode since 2023.
The story follows Bailey (Angourie Rice) and her step-mother Hannah (Garner) as they try to move on after Bailey’s father Owen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) disappears following a run-in with the criminal clients of Bailey’s mob-lawyer, maternal grandfather Nicholas (David Morse).
Greer is introduced in Season 2 as Quinn, one of the gangster’s daughters and the best friend of Bailey’s late mother.
“She is fiercely protective of her family, but she is trying to distance herself from the family business,” Greer said.
“That is a really hard decision Quinn has to make. It’s like, ‘How close can you let yourself be to people that you don’t want to associate with? but you love them so much.’ I think it’s a heightened situation because it’s a TV show,” she went on.
“But I’m sure we all have people in our family that are like that, especially where politics are involved, and we’re like, ‘Oh, we love you so much, but we don’t want to talk about any of these items with you ever,'” she laughed.
Bailey and Hannah have grown closer in the five years since Owen vanished and mobsters looking for him have tried to kidnap his family to get him to come out of hiding.