When Harvey Weinstein introduced the film "Butter" at the Toronto International Film Fest, he issued an invitation to Michelle Bachman and the rest of the Tea Party: come to Iowa to help me introduce the film, he offered, and we can have a fun, politically-diverse time. What went left unsaid -- at least until the film screened that night -- was that the movie featured Jennifer Garner as a shrill Iowan woman straight out of the GOP parody playbook, a play on Palin that now fit Bachmann's persona, too.
The film uses a butter sculpting competition at the Iowa State Fair as a very thinly veiled metaphor for the political crush that happens at the first-in-the-nation caucus every four years. Garner is an aspiring dairy artist, the wife of an already-accomplished champion (in this sense, it's also inspired by Hillary Clinton running in 2008) who gets her hopes for victory hijacked by a young, adopted black girl.
In this just released clip from the film, Garner-as-Palin/Bachmann makes some pretty insensitive remarks, shocking the crowd and delighting the film viewer with awkwardness.
Garner recently revealed that she is pregnant with her and husband Ben Affleck's third child; here's a slideshow of some other pregnant stars.
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