The Dishing Diva

Actress Jennifer Garner has steered tactfully away from a question that keeps dogging her.

Will she and her husband Ben Affleck ever work together again?

After brazenly fielding questions at the Toronto International Film Festival about her director in The Invention Of Lying, Ricky Gervais, Garner breezily broached the Ben question.

“The question keeps coming up, and we have literally never spoken about it. I think he’s a beautiful director obviously and such a gorgeous writer but, y’know, to go to work with him, I would just be like, I need to go home to the kids.”

The pair, who have two children together, worked together in 2003 on Daredevil.

Garner, 37, also said she took a year off after making The Invention but was guns firing to take on a challenge. She gave birth to her second child in January.

She added: “Definitely, the frequency with which I’ve worked is totally different because I went years without a single day off. So I have to really love [a role] to feel like it’s worth uprooting the family and putting us somewhere else.”