The actress thought she was just a pretty face at the time, and the director didn’t make her think otherwise.
There was a time in the 2000s when superhero cinema was still being invented. Hollywood was trying to figure out what worked and what didn’t with comic book movies that didn’t yet take themselves very seriously. At this time the ‘Fantastic Four’ saga was born, which was going to be another of the great franchises ended with only two installments due to bad reviews and low box office.
For the performers, entering these productions was a risk.. Although there were success stories like Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man or Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, the rest put his career at stake. Like a Ben Affleck who stained his career for years because of Daredevil. The actresses were above all the ones who had to lose, just ask Halle Berry and her Catwoman or her Catwoman at that time. Jessica Alba as Sue Storm.
With a very promising career behind her as one of the most beloved actresses of her generation, Alba had also dealt her entire life with the image caused by her physical appearance. Her role as Sue Storm was in some ways revolutionary, as there weren’t too many female lead roles at the time, but There was something that made her fear that he was there just because he was a pretty face.. Those fears were validated in the film’s sequel, as he told in an interview for ELLE Magazine.
“I remember when she was dying in ‘Silver Surfer’. The director said something like, ‘It looks too real. Too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry?… Don’t do that with your face, leave it flat. We can CGI tears.’ (…) It made me think, Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and emotions not good enough? Do people hate him so much that they don’t want me to be a real person?… And then I said fuck it. I don’t care about this industry anymore.”
Reconciliation with time
This moment in the film resonated with the interpreter who He was on the verge of quitting his career completely.. In 2011, in fact, he founded a cosmetics company that, despite some bumps, did not do badly. Therefore, her career as an actress as a financial source was no longer necessary. Despite everything, Alba continued working and over time she has reconciled with this time in her life.
“I have nothing but good memories. I loved playing that character.. I feel like my whole life started in many ways at that moment. I met my life partner, we are still together, we have three children. Tim Story, the director, is still one of my best friends. We celebrate New Year’s Eve together. She was great and she was such a great character, inspiring and ahead of her time, I would say, in the genre. And you have yet to see someone who is so loving and feminine, but also a fearsome ‘badass. I haven’t seen that combination again. So I think it continues to fill this beautiful kind of space or void in the Marvel universe.”
These statements were made for Comic Book Movies as part of the promotion of his latest film: ‘Trigger Warning’The revenge actioner marks the actress’ return to leading roles. In addition to this, Alba will star in the sports drama ‘Flash Before The Bang’, which has yet to be released.
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