More fan encounter videos of Jennifer signing autographs yesterday at Butter Premiere.

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New TIFF portrait of Jen from earlier on today. Jen is busy doing interviews with Olivia Wilde today for Butter. So there should be lots more interviews popping up.

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Check out Jennifer signing autographers yesterday at Butter premiere.

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Yes, it’s winding way down here in Toronto. Many of the stars have left town. The hotels are emptier. But big names are still flying in. Alicia Silverstone, Olivia Wilde and Jennifer Garner all converged on the Intercontinental hotel on Tuesday afternoon to promote Butter.

Garner, pregnant with her third child, stars in and produced the quirky film about a butter-carving competition and the ultra-driven woman (Garner) amped up to win it. At this point, she’s been in Toronto so many times, she can apply for dual citizenship. “I was here for my husband last year for The Town. I was here before that for The Invention of Lying,” she says. “I have spent some serious time in Canada, for sure.”

And she’s spending her day in impressively tall Prada heels. Not that Garner is bragging or anything. “I wore the short ones. Rachel Zoe would not be happy. I have some that are two inches taller that I wore last night,” she says. “You go through a training course when you’re in the Screen Actors Guild. They have an obstacle course in platform heels. Everybody you see out there, we’re all in it.”

Her rules for having a good time here:

“Snacks. We have snacks in the car. We have candy in the car.”
“While I’m very good about caffeine, I am also not afraid once or twice a pregnancy to have a half-caf latte. Today is one of those days.”
“Find ways to be as comfortable as possible and just go with it. It’s not an illness, being pregnant. I’m in the easiest part of it.”

Garner’s film has very positive buzz, which makes the actress giddy. “I was so pleased — pleased doesn’t begin to describe — relieved, grateful, surprised, shocked when we got the first big laugh,” she says. And unlike her character, “I’m not that competitive — unless it’s at Scrabble.”

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Jennifer Garner announced that she was pregnant with her third child just weeks before hitting the film-festival circuit with her new comedy, “Butter.”

Any of the bleary-eyed celebs wandering Toronto can attest to the grind of a film festival, from the red carpets to day-long press junkets to glad-handing at parties all night — but handling it while dealing with the typical discomforts of pregnancy would seem even tougher.

Yet Garner says she’s taking it in stride.

“Luckily, I’m just at that … window when you’re pregnant — the magic second trimester — where you feel you’re done being nauseous,” the personable star said in an interview Wednesday, clad in a black dress with a vibrant red cardigan.

“Right now, I forget that it’s there except that I can’t have wine at the end of the night.”

Still, Garner admits that there have been some queasy moments.

“We were at a screening in the first trimester, when I was quite green,” recalled Garner, who has been married to Oscar-winning actor Ben Affleck since 2005.

“And we were sitting in this restaurant beforehand. We needed to have these conversations, but the smells of the restaurant — I was really like, wooo,” she added, opening her eyes wide and sucking in air sharply.

“I had this lollipop at the time. I had a purse full of lollipops. People were like: ‘Do you want dinner? You’re just going to have a lollipop?’ I was like, ‘Nope, just lollipops.’ I was like having one after the other after the other. So that was difficult.”

On Wednesday, Garner was still basking in the glow of the “Butter” premiere. She produces and stars in the satirical comedy about the cut-throat world of competitive butter-carving in small-town Iowa.

The film — which co-stars Olivia Wilde, Ashley Greene, Alicia Silverstone, Hugh Jackman and Ty Burrell — has subtle political undertones that were brought to the forefront after an incident at Tuesday night’s premiere, where Wilde read a message from the absent Harvey Weinstein, whose company is handling the film.

In the note, Weinstein invited Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann to the Iowa premiere of the film, while adding that the two could take math classes together to help balance the budget and play some “verbal ping-pong” on gay rights and women’s rights.

The invitation was the top story on Variety’s website on Wednesday, and Garner could only tip her hat to Weinstein.

“I certainly wouldn’t sell it as a political movie although Harvey is certainly much more savvy than I, and a genius at selling a film,” she said. “So I was just looking actually at this headline in Variety that Bachmann’s been invited to the premiere.

“It’s like, Harvey, you are amazing. He just is so good at what he’s good at. So I just have to hand it to him and stay out of the way.”

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Four months pregnant and wearing six-inch heels, Jennifer Garner outlasted me at the chic InStyle party Tuesday night at the Windsor Arms Hotel as she celebrated a standing ovation from the audience at the gala premiere of Butter at Roy Thomson Hall.

Garner, who also produced the comedy, stars as an occasionally potty-mouthed Iowa competitive butter carver, who takes over from her retired husband (Modern Family’s Ty Burrell) to vie for the state championship, with an eye to riding her popularity all the way to the governor’s mansion — and beyond. What she doesn’t count on is a 10-year-old carving whiz (newcomer Yara Shahidi).

Wednesday morning, the mother of two young daughters had traded party heels for black Chanel flats and her gown for a simple black dress and red sweater. She was operating on about four hours’ sleep yet looked well-rested and lovely, still riding high on the response of the TIFF crowd. Garner said at the premiere her goal was to bring Butter, a project she took on three years ago, to Toronto to debut, knowing this was the best festival for her movie.

Q: You were amazing last night, pregnant and staying up way past my bedtime to party at the Windsor Arms. How did you manage it?

A: I made a little bargain with God. My mom always says if you’re going to make a bargain with God don’t do it over something trivial, but I did. I said, “If people will just laugh at this movie I will go so happily to this party afterward.” And they laughed and so I said, “Okay, I have to go with a smile on my face as stay as long as they want me to.”

Q: Your feet must have been killing you.

A: Your feet do hurt more when you’re pregnant but when you sign up to be a member of the Screen Actors Guild, they give you a lesson in walking in heels and surviving heels. It came in handy.

Q: Your character, Laura Pickler, is so uptight and straitlaced, yet she lets fly with some amazing obscenities. There’s nothing funnier than a prim Iowa mom saying “mother——.” Why is that?

A: (laughing) I used to say it a lot more. We toned it down. It didn’t do it for you because I said it too much and you don’t want to offend. You want to shock but you don’t want to offend.

Q: Did Jason Reitman help you with that? I understand he was brought in to give some suggestions for the movie during the editing process.

A: Yes, he really helped us know where to pull back. Towards the end of the process, Harvey (Weinstein), Jason and I and my producing partner Juliana (Janes) sat down and watched the film together over about 6 1/2 hours and Jason just had some very smart and specific notes that we followed. Jim Field Smith is without a doubt the director of this film; Jason godfathered us. That happens all the time. My husband (Ben Affleck) always has other directors come in and watch his films and give notes and opinions.
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2010 public appearances are now back up in the gallery!

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I have added over 100 more HQs and MQ pics from Butter Premiere. Portraits are now in HQ. Thanks to Roberta for getting them! Also some pics in Instyle and HFPA party have been replaced with HQs.

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