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Posted: 08.06.2007 09:23

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Q & A with Jessica Alba

You say you are overworked, it's time for a break. What will you do?

I might go to Europe on holiday, I'm not really sure how long, or where. I know I'll be in France for a little while. I'm just feeling it out.

You interviewed your Fantastic Four co-star Chris Evans for a magazine, and he said he takes film jobs so the other six months of year he can travel and learn. Is that how you look at it too?

Totally. I've worked very hard for a long time, and you need some time to feed your soul and your brain and everything else. As much growth as you get from each experience in doing movies, it's also important to have time for something else.

You also asked Chris about going against his nature to play beefcake roles . . .

Or just, you know, obviously he's a very attractive guy.

But presumably you get the same thing, in that you're a smart girl who is always offered roles that are . . . whatever the female equivalent of beefcake is?

(Laughs) You know, people's perception of me is definitely more that way than the roles I actually play. 'Cos the girls I play aren't like that at all. People like to call me pin-up girl and all these things, but it's a headline in a magazine more than it is about the work I actually do. Sue Storm (in Fantastic Four) is not at all like that, and neither are any of other the roles I've done -- except for Nancy in Sin City, I guess. But you know, everyone in that movie, they're all prostitutes, basically, who kill people (laughs). I was the only one who wasn't!

Why did you choose Sin City?

I wanted to play the innocent. And before that I only did Dark Angel and Honey, so I wanted to do something completely different. So it's funny how people's perception is different than the work I actually do.

Do you still feel inexperienced?

Not even close. I've been doing this since I was 12 and I'm 26. I feel old actually, on set, even with people who are older than me, people who started working in their mid-20s.

Do you have a very strong vision for your career?

Yeah, I'm pretty clear-headed when it comes to that stuff. Certainly in (regards to) perception and doors I can open. Like, people may not be aware I'd like to do smaller movies or more character-driven stuff, because I've been in pretty commercial films so far. But I have a whole other side of work that I'm attracted to.

What's been your biggest on-screen stretch so far?

I felt the most challenged in a horror movie I have coming out, a remake of a Chinese movie called The Eye. That was really hard. I had to play someone who was blind. I learnt how to read braille, and walk with a cane. I walked around my house a few times with the mask on . . . interesting, to live in a dark world. Your senses are completely altered. It's a little claustrophobic. Then I had to learn how to play the violin, and I have never played an instrument in my life, so that took like six months (laughs).

Compared with that, was the new Fantastic Four film, Rise of the Silver Surfer, a holiday to shoot?

Yeah, Fantastic Four was good fun. Sue is a great role model for young women, and young men as a girl they would want in their life. Not a lot of movies have such a sweet message. It's about the family and sticking together through thick and thin.

Does the maternal thing come naturally to you?

It actually does, yeah! I'm the oldest of 15 cousins and I've always been babysitting and changing nappies, and trying to guide my cousins in figuring out what they want from life.

So the guest list at your premieres is pretty long?

(Laughs) Well, I don't take them to work. That would be a little crazy. I don't know if they could handle the Albas -- Hollywood's not ready!

Sounds like an interesting family.

Everyone's a star. I'm actually the least dramatic of everyone in my family -- no joke. Everyone is on level 10 of drama, and I'm usually on level one . . . around the holidays two, but usually I'm a one.

Is that because you expel it through your day job?

Probably. I feel like that's probably why I chose to be an actress. Everyone is such a star and has grand stories, and a lot of people in my family are musicians and painters and sculptors and do all these creative things, and I was always quiet in the corner when it came to that stuff. I did do my little performances with my cousins, but that was just expected.

So was your family surprised when you chose this career?

Oh hell yeah. My family, they did theatre, but Hollywood? The movie business? It's so far-fetched. They thought it was a pipe dream, really until I did Dark Angel. That's when it snapped in that this was a real job. My dad was like, "When are you gonna go back to school? When are you gonna find a real career path?" My grandfather wanted me to be a nun . . . so I left that idea far, far behind (laughs). Can you imagine? Oh God!

(news.com.au | Herald Sun)

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 08.06.2007 22:17

Zum Glück ist sie keine Nonne geworden!

Ich finde schön wie positiv immer noch über Dark Angel redet! War ja auch die beste Serie ever!

Posted: 08.06.2007 22:31

Jessica wrote:

I might go to Europe on holiday...

Cool

I'm very happy biggrin

Posted: 09.06.2007 20:23

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Body Of Evidence

As the new Fantastic Four movie hits Irish screens, Paul Byrne talks to the rather fetching Jessica Alba about, well, being rather fetching. Amongst other things…

It’s hard to take Jessica Alba seriously when she says that she wants to produce movies with empowering female roles. Here’s a very fine looking woman who’s only notable trophy so far for her sterling on-screen work is MTV’s much-sought-after ‘Sexiest Performance’ Golden Tub of Popcorn, for playing a superhot, lasoo-toting stripper in Robert Rodriguez’s 2005 offering ‘Sin City’.

Her other work? A superhot music video instructor in 2003’s ‘Honey’, a superhot deep sea diver in 2005’s ‘Into The Blue’, and, most famously of all, the superhot Sue Storm – aka The Invisible Woman - in 2005’s ‘Fantastic Four’. The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted a pattern here. “Hey, I know what you’re saying,” smiles the lovely Ms. Alba when I start joining the dots, “but that’s something a lot of people in Hollywood have to deal with. You know, prove themselves to be more than just a pretty face, or a beefcake guy, or whatever. I’m okay with that. It’s early days, and I’ve got a lot of growing to do, a lot of learning. For now, I’ll play the parts that best suit me, but, you know, I’m hoping that, as I get older, and I get better at this job, the roles will become more and more varied. Come back to me in sixty years time, when I’m playing the killer grandmother, and then we’ll talk…”

Good answer. Then again, it should hardly be all that surprising, given that Jessica Alba has been slobbered over by at least half the population out there for seven years now, ever since James Cameron plucked her from obscurity to be the lead in his much-hyped TV series, ‘Dark Angel’. Alba played Max Guevera for just two years, but it was enough for the young Pomona, California actress to burn her image into a million or so teenage boys’ brains. So, she knows where she’s coming from. And where she’s headed.

Making her big-screen lead debut with the insipid ‘Honey’ may have stalled Alba’s rise a little, but her eye-popping, fly-busting turn as sweet Nancy Callahan in ‘Sin City’, and her first bona-fide blockbuster, ‘Fantastic Four’, both came out in 2005. By the end of that year, Alba was on just about every magazine cover. Except Ireland’s Own. “Hey, there’s still time,” she says. “I’m sure if I send Ireland’s Own the right pic, they’ll put me on the cover.” Do you have any bad drawings of yourself in a wooly jumper, perhaps milking a cow whilst playing the tin whistle? “Not that I know of, but, if that’s what it takes…”

Hmm, it’s hard to take Jessica Alba seriously when she’s so damn charming. And witty. And, well, you know, superhot. For her latest outing, ‘Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer’, Alba is back in her figure-hugging bodysuit alongside Chris Evans’ The Human Torch, Ioan Gruffudd’s Mr. Fantastic and Michael Chiklis’ The Thing. The expectations are hardly high, given that the original Marvel Comics adaptation was something of a bucket. An $87.5million bucket that managed to gross £329.5 at the box-office. And, thanks largely to the presence of Ms. Alba, quite a bit on DVD too. “I think that first movie was all of us finding our feet,” says Alba. “We’re a lot more confident this time out. We’re ready to have some fun because we believe in our characters, and we know that there’s an audience out there. I had a wonderful time on this movie, because we all just felt, hey, we’ve got to say thanks here to all the Fantastic Four fans who made the first movie such a massive hit. It makes you give that little bit more.”

Noted mime artist Doug Jones is the body whilst grumpy actor Laurence Fishburne is the voice of The Silver Surfer, one of Marvel Comics most popular creations. “The reaction to the trailer has been pretty amazing,” says Alba, “and a lot of that has to do with the way they’ve put the Silver Surfer up on screen. You need cool enemies to make these movies work, and they don’t come much cooler than The Silver Surfer.”

I mention to Alba that she’s beginning to sound like a commercial. “You’re right,” she nods. “Gotta watch myself. You talk about something long enough, and you slip into ad-speak. I’ll try and think of something original and shocking for you with my next few answers.”

Given just how hot Ms. Alba is right now, it’s not all that surprising to find that she’s got not one, not two, not three, but six movies coming out this year. ‘The Ten’ is an indie affair, ten stories, inspired by the ten commandments; ‘Bill’ is a comedy co-starring Timothy Olyphant and Aaron Eckhart; ‘Awake’ is a drama that has Alba as the young wife to Hayden Christensen, who’s paralyzed with “anesthetic awareness”; ‘The Eye’ is a remake of the Hong Kong horror hit, and ‘Good Luck, Chuck’ – co-starring the much-touted but hard-to-like Dane Cook - comes with the tagline, ‘There’s Something About Jessica’. Which pretty much says it all. The poster has Alba holding an ice-cream cone that’s just begun to overspill down onto her hand. It would make a great cover for one of those old Top Of The Pops albums. “Yeah, it is a little bit sexy, isn’t it,” says Alba, “but, hey, that’s what sells. It’s a really funny movie, and if we can get people into the theatre, then they’re going to like it, and tell their friends.”

Does Alba feel okay about being the sex that sells? “I’m okay with it once I’m in control,” she nods. “It’s the same for anyone. You want to look well, you want to dress up occasionally, but that doesn’t mean that you want to be reduced to some simple fantasy for someone, or become some kind of object in someone’s mind. If you’re asking me, though, am I okay with looking the way I look, absolutely. I’m very happy with the way that I look, but I’m also very aware of the fact that it’s not really what’s important about a person.”

(eventguide.ie)

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No time for fashion

Jessica Alba wants to design a range of baby clothes.

The 'Fantastic Four' actress wants to follow in the footsteps of stars like Beyoncé Knowles, Jennifer Lopez and Gwen Stefani and release her own clothes line, but can't find time in her busy schedule. Jessica said: "I plan to design a range of baby clothes but I'm just too busy.

"I was originally going to do it a while ago but it didn't make financial sense for me unless I could spend more time on it - seeing samples, selecting fabrics - which I was into doing, but not from Canada, where I was shooting 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer'."

Jessica recently admitted she loves to mother her co-stars. The 26-year-old actress constantly fussed over all the cast and crew while shooting the new comic book film in Vancouver. She said: "I'm always the first to see if everyone's comfortable. You know, 'Are you cold? Are you hot? You need some eggs? Do you want some hot tea? Do you need some medicine?

"Because we all get colds during production, and it's always raining in Vancouver. I always try and make sure everyone's OK. I don't even think about it. That's just my nature." In the movie, Jessica plays superheroine Susan Storm, aka the Invisible Woman.

(people.monstersandcritics.com)

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What attracts Jessica Alba?

The sexiest woman in the world, Jessica Alba, reveals her deep, dark secrets.

Playboy magazine has chosen her among its 25 sexiest celebrities and as the Sex Star of the Year in one of its issues.

Sin City star Jessica Alba has also recently been crowned the ‘sexiest woman in the world’ by readers of FHM magazine in the UK, beating even HOT favourite Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria. But this part Mexican, part French, part Danish actress doesn’t have an answer to where her sex appeal lies. While she finds all the attention “very flattering”, she says, matter-of-factly, “I don’t think about it too much.”

But what she is excited about is her forthcoming film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, where she once again plays the role she essayed so perfectly before: The Invisible Woman aka Susan Storm. Besides harbouring dreams of becoming a producer some day, the hot-sexy-cute actress also does her bit for the cause of women - “something that’s very close to my heart” - and for spreading awareness about AIDS.

What’s the most challenging part of acting in a superhero film?

It’s really exciting. When I was a kid, I always fantasised about being a superhero. And now, I am one! What’s challenging is the fact that, at the end of the day, you have to realise that it’s all just in the imagination. It’s not real. So I have to slip out of my role as easily as I slip into it.

What’s the one thing you would do if you were invisible in real life too?

One thing? I’m not sure. But I certainly would get into a lot of trouble!

You began acting at the age of 13?

I’ve always wanted to be an actor. Even as a child, I remember dressing up and pretending to be someone else. I also loved going to the movies. So yeah, I got an early break and I’m loving every moment of it.

Do you fear being typecast as a ‘sex kitten’ on screen, especially since you’ve now also been voted the sexiest woman in the world?

Not just a sex kitten, I never want to be typecast as anything! I believe actors should have a full range of possibilities and roles to experiment with. There should be no limits where acting is concerned.

So would you pose nude if a scene demanded it?

Now that’s where I’ll draw the line. I’ll never pose nude.

You were once quoted as saying you envisioned a much older man as your ideal partner?

The experience of older men attracts me. When I was younger, I did want my partner be much older than me. But now, at 26, I’m beginning to look at things a little differently. But my ideal man should be intelligent, funny and kind.

So is there a special someone in your life?

Yes, I’m seeing someone, but I’m not going to talk about him or my personal life.

Is marriage around the corner?

Not for a while, I’m only 26!

What would you consider your biggest strength?

I’ve always questioned things, questioned the way the world runs its course. I don’t even agree with a lot the Bible says! I hate that women don’t have equal rights with men, not in society nor in films. My ability to be independent and form my own opinions is, I guess, my strength.

In your free time, you...

Just chill! I love reading, catching up on news, hiking. My work is crazy enough, so when I’m not working, I’m simply relaxing.

(indiatimes.com)

MfG

Maestro

Posted: 10.06.2007 00:06

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So would you pose nude if a scene demanded it?

Now that’s where I’ll draw the line. I’ll never pose nude.

Schade eigentlich, dass man sich über sein Schamgefühl hinausstellt macht richtig gute Schauspieler aus, ich habe lange genug gespielt, um das feststellen zu können!
Wenn sie ganz nach oben will sollte sie das noch ändern! Außerdem ist Nacktheit ja nicht immer erotisch, ich glaub das muss Jessica klar werden!

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So is there a special someone in your life?

Yes, I’m seeing someone, but I’m not going to talk about him or my personal life.

Finde ich gut so!!! Das macht ja nen richtigen Profi aus wie ich finde, wir wissen ja wer es ist! Ja ich gebe es zu ich bin's natürlich!!!

Posted: 10.06.2007 10:24

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So is there a special someone in your life?

Yes, I’m seeing someone, but I’m not going to talk about him or my personal life.

Von wann ist denn das Interview? Woohoo, wer ist denn bloß dieser mysteriöse Typ mit dem Jessica schon seit (für Hollywood Maßstäbe) Ewigkeiten zusammen gesichtet wird. (Ganz zu schweigen davon: Den sie bereits namentlich in Interviews erwähnt hat (oder erwähnt wurde) und von ihm geschwärmt hat usw.)

Nein, einer von euch ist´s mit Sicherheit nicht! Es sei denn ihr hättet mindestens einen Yale-Abschluss in der Tasche. Dann können wir vielleicht nochmal darüber reden. lach

Posted: 10.06.2007 12:19

kwirk wrote:

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So would you pose nude if a scene demanded it?

Now that’s where I’ll draw the line. I’ll never pose nude.

Schade eigentlich, dass man sich über sein Schamgefühl hinausstellt macht richtig gute Schauspieler aus, ich habe lange genug gespielt, um das feststellen zu können!
Wenn sie ganz nach oben will sollte sie das noch ändern! Außerdem ist Nacktheit ja nicht immer erotisch, ich glaub das muss Jessica klar werden!

find ich überhaupt nicht... ich find gerade damit beweist sie ihre charkterstärke... und außerdem... wenn man sich ausziehen muss um zur schauspielelite zu gehören, würd ichs ihr auch net übel nehmen wenn sie nie dazugehört...

Posted: 10.06.2007 12:41

fifty wrote:

kwirk wrote:

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So would you pose nude if a scene demanded it?

Now that’s where I’ll draw the line. I’ll never pose nude.

Schade eigentlich, dass man sich über sein Schamgefühl hinausstellt macht richtig gute Schauspieler aus, ich habe lange genug gespielt, um das feststellen zu können!
Wenn sie ganz nach oben will sollte sie das noch ändern! Außerdem ist Nacktheit ja nicht immer erotisch, ich glaub das muss Jessica klar werden!

find ich überhaupt nicht... ich find gerade damit beweist sie ihre charkterstärke... und außerdem... wenn man sich ausziehen muss um zur schauspielelite zu gehören, würd ichs ihr auch net übel nehmen wenn sie nie dazugehört...

Absolut richtig, fifty! Aber man wird doch kein "richtig guter Schauspieler", indem man Nacktszenen spielt, kwirk! Nach dieser Logik müsste ja die Jenna aus deiner Signatur die beste Schauspielerin auf der Welt sein. Und da kann ja was nicht stimmen. Ich würde eher das Gegenteil behaupten: Ein guter Schauspieler hat es nicht nötig Nacktszenen zu spielen, denn er bekommt genügend andere Rollen angeboten und kann so frei wählen. Natürlich kann auch ein guter Schauspieler die ein oder andere Nackszene spielen, wenn ein hervorragendes Skript zu einem serösen Film es unbedingt erfordert. Allerdings ist das Nackt-Auftreten keinesfalls ein Kritierium für einen guten Schauspieler!

Posted: 10.06.2007 14:04

Es heißt doch nicht, nur wer Auszeichnungen erhält, in Massen und einen Blockbuster nach dem anderen dreht, ist ein guter Schauspieler. Es gibt auch gute Schauspieler die in kleinen Projekten mitspielen und nicht soviel Geld dafür bekommen. Man muss nur dahinter stehen, was man spielt und alles geben und über sich hinauswachsen. So wie Jess. Denn mit einem Stock zu Hasue rumzulaufen und eine Maske über den Augen zu haben um zu begreifen, was es heißt, blind zu sein. Das ist doch gut, zur Charackterfindung.

Posted: 10.06.2007 14:26

Du darfst aber nur in gewissen Maßen charakterstärke haben! Wie gesagt ich weiß wovon ich rede und nackt sein ist nicht gleich nackt sein. Man kann das ganze auch ziemlich unerotisch darstellen und es bist in gewissen Maße gar nicht du der sich da zeigt sondern deine Rolle und so ist das dann auch! Ich hatte schon das vergnügen unfreiwillig und es war mir aber egal!

Posted: 10.06.2007 14:32

Na klar gibt es auch gute Gründe, sie vor der Kamera auszuziehen. Wenn es zu der Rolle passt und man nicht hinterher sagt, "die haben mich gezwungen" oder "das auf der Leinwand das war ich gar nicht, das muss eine andere Jess gewesen sein...." Wie gesagt, es muss passen und man muss auch hinterher dazu stehen"

Posted: 10.06.2007 14:49

Nicolle wrote:

Es heißt doch nicht, nur wer Auszeichnungen erhält, in Massen und einen Blockbuster nach dem anderen dreht, ist ein guter Schauspieler. Es gibt auch gute Schauspieler die in kleinen Projekten mitspielen und nicht soviel Geld dafür bekommen. Man muss nur dahinter stehen, was man spielt und alles geben und über sich hinauswachsen. So wie Jess. Denn mit einem Stock zu Hasue rumzulaufen und eine Maske über den Augen zu haben um zu begreifen, was es heißt, blind zu sein. Das ist doch gut, zur Charackterfindung.

Das habe ich ja auch gar nicht behaupten wollen. Im Übrigen gebe ich dir vollkommen Recht.

Nicolle wrote:

Na klar gibt es auch gute Gründe, sie vor der Kamera auszuziehen. Wenn es zu der Rolle passt und man nicht hinterher sagt, "die haben mich gezwungen" oder "das auf der Leinwand das war ich gar nicht, das muss eine andere Jess gewesen sein...." Wie gesagt, es muss passen und man muss auch hinterher dazu stehen"

Genau das habe ich auch gesagt. Ich meinte nur, dass eine Nacktszenen nicht automatisch einen guten Schauspieler machen.

Posted: 10.06.2007 20:26

Stevie wrote:

Nicolle wrote:

Es heißt doch nicht, nur wer Auszeichnungen erhält, in Massen und einen Blockbuster nach dem anderen dreht, ist ein guter Schauspieler. Es gibt auch gute Schauspieler die in kleinen Projekten mitspielen und nicht soviel Geld dafür bekommen. Man muss nur dahinter stehen, was man spielt und alles geben und über sich hinauswachsen. So wie Jess. Denn mit einem Stock zu Hasue rumzulaufen und eine Maske über den Augen zu haben um zu begreifen, was es heißt, blind zu sein. Das ist doch gut, zur Charackterfindung.

Das habe ich ja auch gar nicht behaupten wollen. Im Übrigen gebe ich dir vollkommen Recht.

Nicolle wrote:

Na klar gibt es auch gute Gründe, sie vor der Kamera auszuziehen. Wenn es zu der Rolle passt und man nicht hinterher sagt, "die haben mich gezwungen" oder "das auf der Leinwand das war ich gar nicht, das muss eine andere Jess gewesen sein...." Wie gesagt, es muss passen und man muss auch hinterher dazu stehen"

Genau das habe ich auch gesagt. Ich meinte nur, dass eine Nacktszenen nicht automatisch einen guten Schauspieler machen.

auch ganz meine rede...

Posted: 11.06.2007 00:20

Nein aber ein guter Schauspieler hat aber eigentlich kaum Hemmungen was seine Rollen angeht, naja zu gut katholisch erzogen!

Posted: 11.06.2007 16:32

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Jessica Alba and her ambitious quest to be the next Tom Cruise

Actress Jessica Alba had a tough childhood, wearing hand-me-down clothes, living in a rough area of Los Angeles, and suffering serious health problems. Now she is an international film star, regularly topping those "sexiest woman in the world" polls. But this is just the beginning for a young woman who has her sights set on even greater things. Jessica Alba is only 26, but she has an air of self-possession and maturity that belies her age.

Unusually cool and composed, she sits on a sofa in her Beverly Hills hotel suite, sipping a latte. Slim, but not skinny, she has just eaten a hearty breakfast of bacon, eggs and toast and is clearly baffled by the size zero debate. "My happiness isn't dictated by what other people want or how they see me. I don’t feel I have to conform," she says. "I have always been a leader, not a follower. I don’t diet and I cook. I made chicken with basil, truffle oil and stewed tomatoes for dinner last night, and it was good," she smiles. "I love brownies and I probably drink too much coffee, but other than that I really don’t have any unhealthy attitudes towards food." Opinionated and articulate, you can see exactly why the actress has become a member of the elite group of young actresses (including Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten Dunst) who command $5m pay cheques.

Wearing a loose red dress over black leggings and high wedge sandals, she is exotic and captivating: Smooth caramel skin, brown eyes honey blonde hair. But what distinguishes her from many of her Hollywood contemporaries is a presence that can only be described as regal, which is fascinating, because the actress grew up in a rough Los Angeles suburb. Still happily married, her Mexican father Mark and Danish/French mother Cathy married while they were still in their teens and had two children in quick succession – Jessica has a younger brother Joshua. "My dad made $14,000 a year working in the air force; he now works as an estate agent. My mum worked at a youth centre, a clothing store and at McDonald's.

"For a long time we lived on air force bases in government housing, then when I was nine we moved to Los Angeles into my grandparents house. "Financially, we were poor, we wore thrift shop clothes and buying school clothes was the big expense for the year; we were always on a budget." Jessica says her parents made sure that the children knew that there were plenty of families worse off than they were. "My dad would drive us down to Mexico and say, 'I’ll show you what real poverty is,' and we would see that our life wasn’t that bad.

"I wasn’t a kid trying to sell gum on the side of the road. My parents did their best, but it was definitely tough. I'm really happy that I don’t live like that any more," she says quietly. It is unlikely that she will have to return to those stressful times. Her latest film is the summer blockbuster, Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. She plays Sue Storm (aka the Invisible Woman) in the sequel to the popular 2005 hit, based on the Marvel comic books. The first film turned Jessica into an international star. Jessica claims that from an early age, she had an uncanny feeling that she was destined for greater things. "I always felt like I was born into the wrong family – I didn’t feel I belonged and I felt that I should have been royal, and nobody knew that except me," smiles Jessica.

"I knew I would have to get out of that environment and make a lot of money, so I created that for myself at a young age as an actress. "I was performing for the family by the time I was three. I loved dancing, singing and acting, creating little plays. "I would use my cousins as supporting characters in my stories," she says, "or I’d get them to be my back-up dancers in my music videos." By the time she was 11, Jessica was pleading with her parents to pay for acting classes and finally persuaded them to let her enter a drama competition - the winner would get an agent and a series of auditions. "I won the grand prize, came to Beverly Hills, started getting work and never really stopped," she says with a shrug, making the whole thing sound completely effortless.

She attended auditions, despite the reservations of her father. "He’d say, 'This is a nice hobby but you’re going to have to go to college and get a real job,'" says Jessica. However, she was soon landing lucrative acting jobs, including a regular role on TV series Flipper, which entailed months living in Australia. Jessica had no qualms about leaving Los Angeles because she hated school. "I had nothing in common with the other girls, they were into being the cutest or the most popular and my idea of what I wanted out of life was very different. "I wasn’t into clothes or boys. I was worried about making money and getting the next job and being professional."

There was also an overriding feeling that she was an outsider, because of her mixed heritage. "Everything was very segregated," she says. "White girls hung out in a group, there was another group of Hispanic girls, black girls had their own group. I was shunned by the Latin community for not being Latin enough, which is why I liked acting so much and wanted to find my own path." Working solidly to achieve her goals meant formidable dedication. "I was on location working in lots of different countries. "It really taught me discipline. I was incredibly driven. And I don’t think you can be successful in the entertainment business without being driven - it’s so brutal." What makes Jessica’s early success extraordinary is that she suffered from serious health problems, related to childhood asthma, including collapsed lungs and repeated bouts of pneumonia, which meant she spent weeks at a time in hospital.

"I had a lot of time in bed to figure out what made me happy and I learned how to talk to adults and really communicate, which I didn’t mind because I didn’t have much in common with people my own age. "I grew out of the asthma, so I can’t complain. Everything is for a reason and I believe in fate," says Jessica who was raised Catholic and still considers herself to be a "spiritual" person. "Sometimes you have to learn lessons over and over again; karma’s a bitch. You’re meant to go through hard things in life to evolve." Jessica’s career reached a new level when she was just 17 and Titanic director James Cameron picked her out of thousands of beautiful young hopefuls, to star in his sci-fi TV series, Dark Angel. "My dad came on the set and I think he realised that acting could be a real career and he was proud of me." The show only survived two seasons, but Jessica had nothing to worry about. She made a seamless transition into films with a supporting role in Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore. She played a stripper in Sin City, starred in the underwater thriller Into The Blue and was cast as the sexy superhero in The Fantastic Four.

Because of the unexpected success of the first film, which grossed $330 million worldwide, along with Jessica’s elevated standing in the Hollywood power structure, her part is much more interesting this time. "In the last one I was just running in saying, 'Oh my God, something bad is happening let’s run.' In this film Sue is much softer with depth. It’s a richer role." Wearing a blonde wig and a costume with muscular padding to magnify the character’s prowess, Sue Storm is set to save the world from catastrophe, along with the other three members of the comic book team: Chris Evans as Johnny Storm (The Human Torch), Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm (The Thing) and the group’s leader, Ioan Gruffud as Reed Richards, (Mr. Fantastic). Was there special physical training for the role? "Not really because a lot of the action is computer generated," she says.

"But I had to look good and I hate exercise," she laughs. "I get so bored, so I just do anything that keeps me from wanting to kill myself when I am in the gym – like listening to my music on level 100, so that I feel that my hearing is gone when I have finished." Jessica is currently dating filmmaker Cash Warren, 28, whom she met on the set of the first Fantastic Four, where he was an assistant director. She refuses to discuss the relationship, or reports that they are about to get engaged, but does tell me that she loves "funny guys. I like the manly guy who can be romantic, but who’s in touch with his feelings and can also watch sport and hang out with my dad." What about settling down and starting a family? "No," she says firmly, "Maybe in a few years. "Right now, anyone in a relationship with me has to learn the hard way that I’m just not going to be around all the time." Apart from a busy film schedule, Jessica recently signed a $5m dollar modelling contract with Revlon.

"I still can’t believe it," she smiles. "It’s an iconic company. My mother is very girly and loves makeup, so she is thrilled and pretty proud." Meanwhile, Jessica constantly leads the polls in men’s magazines, as the world’s sexiest star. Isn’t it flattering? I ask. "Well it is all so bizarre to me because when I was young, no one ever asked me out on a date, I was nobody’s 'type' so this is very weird. But, yes, it is flattering." The quality of roles is definitely changing, though. She’s still offered the predictable male fantasy/stripper scripts, but also more substantial parts. She’s appearing in her first comedy, Good Luck Chuck. "I’m the one people make fun of, which is much more interesting." She has a new medical thriller out in a few months, Awake. "It’s great because I look normal," she smiles. "I’m not fighting anyone and I’m so happy that I don’t have to wear a bathing suit." She’s also starring in Sin City 2. What strikes me about the actress above all, is her single-minded determination – that never seems to waver.

She tells me she does take time off. An ideal day would involve a long hike with her bulldog Bowie and pug Sid Vicious, lunch with a girlfriend and a few hours curled up with a novel. "I like to get lost in someone else’s reality." But her own reality, which essentially boils down to her film career, appears to be the overriding concern. Jessica is also forging a path for women in another way – as a producer, an arena that has largely excluded women in the past. If you ask Jessica who her role models are, don’t expect the usual answer: Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. "Tom Cruise and Will Smith," comes the answer, without missing a beat, "because they really understand a brand and go for it.

"By 'brand' I mean the ability to open movies worldwide and dictate what you want out of that entire experience and that is yet to be done by women." If the actress’s story so far is anything to go by - that state of affairs is about to change. While she will inevitably continue to top those sexiest star polls, expect to see the name Jessica Alba turning up in business and financial magazines too - on the list of Hollywood’s wealthiest and most powerful players. Now that would really make her happy.

(dailymail.co.uk)

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The Visible Woman

LIKE all good superheroes, Jessica Alba leads a double life. There's Jessica Alba the actor: star of TV series Dark Angel and the smash-hit movies Sin City, Fantastic Four and its coming sequel in which she reprises her role as Sue Storm, aka the Invisible Woman.

Then there's Jessica Alba the sex goddess, who features prominently in magazine polls judging her among the sexiest women alive, put on the cover of Playboy magazine against her wishes and whose bikini-clad body was strategically enhanced on the posters for the dopey sunken treasure yarn Into the Blue.

The Jessica Alba sitting on a couch high up in the Crown Towers recently, in town to spruik the then-unfinished Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer says she recognises and is proud of the former, but accepts that the latter is part and parcel of the movie-making and media machine and treats her objectification and reluctant celebrity with a business-like resignation.

"I completely dissociate myself from that person," the stunning, but demurely dressed Alba says. "It's work. It's not me as a person. Nobody is buying into me as a person. A $100 million movie filled with special effects is a hell of a lot more interesting than me going grocery shopping. "I just know that I am a part of a bigger machine because it is nothing to do with me. I never wake up thinking I want to be on this list today. It kind of just happens. I am working in this business at a time where that is emphasised, so I am not really bucking it. It is what it is.

"I don't think I would do this for a living if I felt exploited by it. I would pursue theatre and wait tables and go do something completely different." Alba's way of dealing with the cult of celebrity is to try to switch it off and focus on her acting and she is dead serious about it even if she is unlikely to be troubling the Academy any time soon. She took her first acting class at the age of 12, but spent much of her early career moving from job to job -- including a cheesy update of Flipper filmed in Australia and a brief role on teen sitcom Beverly Hills 90210 -- with little understanding of what she was doing and no confidence in front of the camera. A harsh self-critic, she looks back on her early work and cringes. "I had no understanding of how to play a character or what that meant," she says candidly.

"I was just getting jobs and hoping to God I didn't suck that badly -- and frankly, most of it really sucked." A stint at the Atlantic Theatre Company, where her teachers included respected actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman helped teach her some technique, but it took the financial success of the first Fantastic Four movie (which, despite a critical hammering and a Razzie Award nomination for Alba made a respectable $391 million worldwide) to give the her confidence to apply it. "I was always trying to make the director happy and make the other actors and the producer happy," she says. "Acting wasn't a selfish thing and not until after the success of Fantastic Four did I think that I had been doing this for so long and it was time to do what made me happy. So I have learned to apply the method a little bit in different ways."

Alba's response to her newfound Hollywood clout is to throw herself into as many different products in as many different genres as she can. Apart from the Rise of the Silver Surfer, she has also completed a thriller with Hayden Christensen called Awake; her first romantic comedy, Good Luck Chuck; and a Hong Kong horror remake called The Eye. All of which is part of the grand plan. "It has definitely been a concerted effort to do as much variety as possible," she says. "I really enjoy what I do for a living and it's not about being a celebrity for me." With the Fantastic Four sequel still not finished and the finer details under wraps, Alba can only go on her gut feeling that it will match the surprise success of the original.

Alba gets a little tetchy at the observation that the first movie was dismissed as being lightweight and somewhat bland and a disappointment to fans of the comic. "The people who thought our movie should have been a bit darker or edgier were not Fantastic Four fans at all," she says. "They were critics who saw Batman Returns and thought that it should be like that. But if you read the comics from the Ultimate Series, the original to the Marvel Knights Series, which is the most edgy young and sexy version, its all very PG and cheeky. It's kind of what differentiates this comic book movie from the Ghost Rider and the X-Men and all of them really. "It's a family of superheroes -- it's more along the lines of the Incredibles or Shrek."

The new movie introduces one of the most loved characters in the Marvel Universe, the Silver Surfer, a noble and tormented alien who can absorb and manipulate the universe's cosmic energies and rides a funky, flying board. He also has a tendency to destroy planets while being held in the thrall of the god-like entity Galactus and it's up to the Invisible Woman, Mr Fantastic (Ioan Gruffudd), the Thing (Michael Chiklis) and the Human Torch (Chris Evans) to stop him. Aussie Julian McMahon also returns as their unsurprisingly not-dead nemesis Viktor Von Doom. "This time we didn't have to explain three times what we did for a living or what our powers were, so we could really hit the ground running," Alba says. "We are in the middle of a very chaotic time in their personal lives. Sue and Reed, two superheroes, are getting married, so it's the wedding of the century and it gets crashed by the biggest threat that our world has seen -- the presence of this alien who eats planets and sucks the energy out of them.

"So it was fun to go into the film knowing that that's where the stakes were. And on a personal level of the character -- she is dealing with wanting to be a wife and a mother and not necessarily work all the time. So she is struggling with being a superhero and having the weight of the world on her shoulders."

(news.com.au | Herald Sun)

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Posted: 11.06.2007 23:30

Naja hoffentlich wird sie nicht der nächste Tom Cruise!

Posted: 12.06.2007 01:20

kwirk wrote:

Naja hoffentlich wird sie nicht der nächste Tom Cruise!

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Posted: 12.06.2007 09:52

Naja mittlerweile hat er ja eher den gegenteiligen Effekt und ich verbitte mir den Begriffe Wissen mit Scientology in zusammenhang zu bringen!

Tontechniker Gender: Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Posts: 249

Ja eher mit gehirnwäsche und Macht und Kontrollbesessenheit. Ich mag Tom Cruise überhaupt nicht. Die Sektenspinner sind alle Freaks nicht umsonst werden sie in Deutschland vom Verfassungsschutz beobachtet.

Posted: 12.06.2007 16:54

Nur weil die was an anderes glauben sind die doch keine Freaks... rolleyes

Sehr oberflächlig alle Sekten auf einem Kamm zu schieben zu wollen.....

Tontechniker Gender: Joined: 14 Jan 2007 Posts: 249

Na Leute die Dinge mit schlechten Absichten tun sind schon nicht gerade normal oder das wäre ja traurig. Informiere dich doch einmal über die Scientology und ihre Ziele und Methoden. Ihre Denkweisen und Überzeugungen du wirst merken das die nicht umbedingt die Demokratie, Meinungs und Gedankenfreiheit zur Grundlage hat. In den USA haben die es ja leider geschaft als Kirche anerkannt zu werden wobei sie mit einigen ihrer Mittel und Methoden ja sehr nachgeholfen haben.

Aber bevor jemand anders das aufgreift, back to topic. Über die Scientology kann man ja woanders streiten.

Posted: 12.06.2007 23:12

Jo und zu meiner Verteidigung noch, das hat nichts mit anderen Glauben zu tun, das ist einfach nur noch *an dieser Stelle konnte der liebe Uli aka Kwirk nicht mehr weiter schreiben weil es in Hasstiraden über den überaus anstrengenden und nervenden Schauspieler Tom Cruise enden würde*

JO zurück zum Thema ich find's echt merkwürdig Jessica mit dem zu Vergleichen ich glaube es ist erstrebenswerter mit Meryl Streep verglichen zu werden (und auch mehr in ihrem Interesse) da Meryl Streep es ja geschafft hat ohne großartig auszusehen eine absolute geniale und in Hollywood sehr sehr angesehenen Schauspielerin geworden ist!

Posted: 13.06.2007 13:26

Jessica with Love wrote:

Nur weil die was an anderes glauben sind die doch keine Freaks... rolleyes

Sehr oberflächlig alle Sekten auf einem Kamm zu schieben zu wollen.....

WTF?! Ist das wirklich dein Ernst?!! Falls ja, dann hast du wirklich noch eine Menge zu lernen. Jede Art von Sekte ist mehr als äußerst fragwürdig. Allein schon der Begriff impliziert etwas Abartiges etc., etwas was sich von der Gesellschaft gerne abschotten möchte. Man sollte besser um JEDE Sekte einen großen Bogen machen.

Back2Topic: Ich denke Jessica hat Tom doch nur erwähnt, um auch indirekt "The Eye" zu promoten (wozu sie ja auch sicherlich vertraglich verpflichtet ist), der ja schließlich vom Tommyboy produziert wird. In der Vergangenheit mag dies mit Tom Cruise ja auch zugetroffen haben, dass er ein Kassenmagnet war und sehr viel Macht ausüben konnte. Doch diese Zeiten sind nun passé, seit er sich die ganzen Peinlichkeiten rund um seine Beziehung zu Katie Holmes u. sein zu energisches Missionarstreiben für Scientology geleistet hat. Könnte Jessica wirklich Tacheles reden, würde ihr Urteil über ihre Vorbilder mit Sicherheit anders aussehen.