Jennifer Garner is still on promotional duties for The Invention of Lying, so we’re still being gifted with some of her boring stories. How shall I say this kindly? I don’t hate Jennifer Garner in the least – I think she’s a very talented actress, a true professional, a good person and she seems like a great mom. But I’m getting really tired of this wholesome act she puts on – and I really do think it’s an act. I’ve said this all before – I suspect the real Jennifer Garner is really interesting. This is the woman who, within just a couple of years, dumped her husband Scott Foley for Michael Vartan, and then dumped Vartan for Ben Affleck and got knocked up within a few months. See? That’s interesting. That’s a great backstory. I would love it if people asked her about that stuff, but they don’t. Instead, we get Jennifer’s too-sweet musings on motherhood:

Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck may be among the busiest actors in Hollywood, but their first-born daughter Violet has her own ideas about what her parents do for a living.

“The older one thinks that I work in a trailer. She thinks that my work is getting hair and makeup done,” Garner, 37, told reporters at the Toronto International Film Festival press conference for her new movie Invention of Lying, costarring Rob Lowe, Tina Fey, Jonah Hill and Ricky Gervais, who directed it.

Violet, 3, also thinks mom’s job is to bow to audiences. “If you ask her what I do, she’ll say she remembers me bowing on stage when I did a show in New York, and so she’ll say, ‘My mom sometimes will bow on stage and sometimes she gets her hair and makeup done,’ ” says Garner. “It’s a great job!”

Garner has yet to bring Violet or her little sister Seraphina, 8 months, to Take Your Daughters to Work Day. “She’s never seen a set, but she will at some point. She has made it to the trailer and to craft service. She gets M&M’s when she comes.”

And can Violet expect to see her parents – who last appeared in the same movie six years ago, in Daredevil – onscreen together again?

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

[From People]

Gatecrasher had another too-sweet story about Jennifer today. Apparently, she “pranked” Ricky Gervais on the set of their film. Did it involve saran wrap, whipped cream, a dildo, and cow-tippin’? Of course not! That would be too interesting. Jennifer’s “prank” involved a ringing cell phone and gum. Seriously.

At a luncheon feting the flick at the Plaza yesterday, The Invention of Lying’s co-director Matthew Robinson revealed that Garner showed her comedic chops at the expense of her co-star (and the film’s other director), British comedian Ricky Gervais.

“Ricky had a few specific rules on-set,” Robinson revealed. Among his quirky (okay, complete pain-in-the-butt) tics: no gum-chewing, no cell-phone talking, no snorting and no standing in his line of vision while shooting.

But the delightfully complacent Garner didn’t argue with the rules; instead, she decided to let her inner child loose and give her co-star a little payback. On the last day of filming, the actress made an executive decision: She would break all of Ricky’s rules in one day.

Said Robinson: “In the middle of taping, Jen’s cell phone went off, and she pretended it had happened accidentally. Ricky got really annoyed. All of a sudden, Jen started chewing gum and Ricky’s going, ‘What are you doing?’ And then she snorted. He didn’t catch on until the entire crew started laughing.”

[From Gatecrasher]

Here’s something else that’s interesting about this publicity tour – no one has asked Jennifer Garner about all of those Ben Affleck-Blake Lively rumors. Granted, I wouldn’t expect some rude reporter to shout “Is Ben cheating on you with Blake Lively?” But I would think someone would ask “Does Ben like being in Boston? Does he enjoy directing Blake Lively?” If it was another celebrity couple, the reporters would be asking questions. But since it’s sweet, wholesome Jennifer Garner, of course not. By the way, Blind Gossip put this blind item up, and pretty much everyone thinks it’s about Garner, Affleck and Lively: “Which A-lister couple’s relationship is on the rocks? Seems he is cheating with his much younger co-star and the wife is now trying to accompany the two on set as much as possible. She heard the rumors way before we did and is now hanging around to nip this thing in the bud. Not Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise.” It does seem to fit. After promoting The Invention of Lying this week, she went straight back to Boston to keep her eye on Ben.

Here’s Jennifer Garner in Boston on Tuesday. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .