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Jennifer Garner proof that there is no bad blood between her and Sean Michael Vartan.
The actress, 54, shared a rare glimpse of the couple reuniting via her Instagram on Wednesday, September 30.
In a post celebrating the 25th anniversary of AliasGarner was seen walking up to Vartan in a video montage. Garner portrayed the main character, Sydney Bristow, on the ABC series, which ran from 2001 to 2006. Vartan played her love interest, Michael Vaughn.
“They were my whole world, my cast and crew, and they still are,” Garner said in the post. “All these years later, we’ve been together. We’re a little band that’s been together for the last 25 years.”
Aliasdirector JJ Abrams and Garner’s costars Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin and Merrin Dungey are featured in the post as well.
Garner believed Alias to change her life, explaining that Sydney was so different from the roles she usually played.
“Alias so far outside of anything I’ve done,” she said, “No one had thought of me for action. No one had thought of me for a serious role.”
Garner and Vartan met while working on the spy drama and sparked a romance when the cameras weren’t rolling.
In August 2003, Garner’s representative confirmed that Us that the costars were going on, but they finally separated the following year. They remained friends and continued to play love interests until the show ended, although Vartan only appeared in seven episodes of the final season.
Talking to The United States today in May 2005, Vartan described his split with Garner as “uncertain,” insisting that there was no drama behind their call it quits.
“Jennifer and I were best friends at first, during [the romance] and after,” he told the outlet at the time.
Don’t worry about Sydney! Jennifer Garner proved herself as a leading lady and bona fide action star on Alias. The actress played super spy Sydney Bristow on the ABC series for five seasons, which ran from September 2001 to May 2006. […]
When asked by E!’s Daily Pop more than a decade later if there was ever a chance that he and Garner could get back together, Vartan shot down the proposal.
“Oh, my God… I don’t think so. If it doesn’t work once, there’s a reason it didn’t work,” he said in 2018.
The pair appear to have remained friendly over the years, with Garner paying tribute to Vartan in several birthday posts.
For Vartan’s 55th birthday in November 2023, Garner shared a throwback photo of the pair from Alias days.
“I don’t remember why I was Bavarian, but I know that today is your birthday,” she wrote with him at the time. “I hope he is a good man, Michael! XX S. Bristow.”
