Jessica Alba details 'humiliating' naked scene for character that almost made her 'quit' acting
Sin City actor Jessica Alba has revealed one 'awful' and 'humiliating' scene she had to perform for a role - one which later also made her consider whether she wanted to keep acting at all.
Alba, 44, has taken on jobs in everything from the dramatic Beverly Hills, 90210 to Netflix's intense thriller Trigger Warning over the years, but there's one character that the actor has taken on multiple times - that of Susan Storm, aka the Invisible Woman.
The supernaturally talented character features in Marvel's Fantastic Four series, with Alba appearing in the role for the 2005 movie of the same name, and the 2007 sequel Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. She also voiced the same character in the video game version of the series.
This week Alba appeared at the Red Sea International Film Festival where she discussed some of her new projects, but she also took a look back at her life as a superhero when she was asked about her memories from the Marvel series.
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Alba offered up a recollection of her 'least favorite scene', one in which Storm appears completely naked over a bridge.
“I thought that was awful,” she said, according to Variety. “It was very humiliating in real life. I grew up with a pretty conservative family, and I am a pretty modest person. I dreaded that scene for weeks. I have a lot of whiplash from those days.”
This isn't the first time Alba has shared tough memories from the Fantastic Four series, with the actor having previously spoken about one moment in the 2007 sequel in which she was told her tears looked 'too real' for a crying scene, and was allegedly encouraged to 'be prettier' while crying.
Since showing 'real' emotion is something many actors strive for, Alba explained: "Then it all got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and my emotions not good enough? Do people hate them so much that they don’t want me to be a person? Am I not allowed to be a person in my work? And so I just said, ‘F**k it. I don’t care about this business anymore.'"
Needless to say, Alba didn't give up on acting and she insisted this week she still looks back fondly on her time as Sue Storm.
She said: "She was a woman I looked up to. She was very maternal and very kind, but also not a pushover; she spoke her mind. She had a great moral compass. No matter who you are, you can look up to her."
Topics: Marvel, Film and TV, Celebrity
Emily Brown