In early November, Jessica Alba made headlines for her Controversial interview with Elle Magazine for its December issue, saying "good actors never use [scripts]." This agitated screenwriter John August, provoking him to bash her on his blog. But now the rest of the interview has leaked, and it gets a whole lot worse.
The extended interview with Alba, posted on jessicaalba.net in PDF form, reveals that Alba contemplated quitting acting during the filming of 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.'
"[The director told me] 'It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica.' He was like, 'Don't do that thing with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in.'"
"[The director told me] 'It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica.' He was like, 'Don't do that thing with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in.'"
That questionable bit of direction set Alba to a bad way of thinking. "I'm like, 'But there's no connection to a human being.' And 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.'"
Alba goes on to state that one reason some of her movies have underperformed at the Box Office: "First-time directors."
For the extended interview click on http://www.jessicaalba.net/
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