United Kingdom, Feb. 12 -- Jennifer Garner channelled her dance background in The Last Thing He Told Me.

The 53-year-old actress plays Hannah Hall in the mystery thriller series, and Jennifer feels that her dance background actually helped her to film some action scenes.

The Hollywood star - who had experience with ballet before she switched her focus towards acting - told Extra: "You take that physicality and you take . everything that you put into dance. It's like combined with a scene and the stakes of the scene are so high that you have to use your whole body to accomplish the scene, and that's what I love about doing a fight scene."

Despite this, Jennifer admitted that the physical nature of her role took its toll on her.

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