Jessica Alba doesn’t have the fondest memories of filming a scene for “Fantastic Four.”
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In the movie, her superhero character Sue Storm, aka The Invisible Woman, had to appear on a bridge in the nude, a moment Alba struggled with personally.
“I hated that scene when they brought her back on the bridge, and she had to be naked on the bridge,” she said at an In Conversation With event hosted by Wendy Mitchell at the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
She continued, “It was awful and very humiliating in real life, because I grew up with a pretty conservative family, and I’m a modest person and so it was something I was like, ‘Oh, no, not this.’ I regretted that scene for weeks.”
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The actress did have fun filming some of the stunts, but admits she wouldn’t attempt them now.
“Getting ricocheted back into the wall, getting blasted, that was always fun, that was fun back then. But now, thank you I don’t want to get whiplash,” she said.
And while she struggled with the one scene, Alba said she “loved” playing Sue Storm.
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“She was a woman I looked up to. She was very maternal and very kind, but also not a pushover; she spoke her mind,” the mom of three said.
Alba continued, “She had a great moral compass. No matter who you are, you can look up to her. Oftentimes, the women in these stories need to be saved by a guy or the villain, the problem in the story. This was back then. It’s different now.”
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