Jessica Alba Says Filming Fantastic Four Nude Scene Was 'Humiliating'

Weird thing to say when she has been on screen naked and shown her boobs much earlier than the fantastic 4 movie.

Edit- the movie is The Sleeping Directory. However, I did not realize they used a body double. My younger me is very disappointed...all that rewinding and playback!

"in Saudi Arabia" We can just assume she wanted to not get stoned to death before she left the country. 

I love the issue where they read Sue hate letters in the comic of how useless she is and decide to give her forcefield powers making her one of if not the lost useful fantastic four member

It's Jessica Alba, she'll say anything now to stay relevant

Allegedly it was intentionally removed from the script and then added back after she signed on. I don't know if that's true, but i definitely wouldn't put it past anyone in the business.

To put this in terms more of us can relate to.. have you talked to a recruiter for a job? They're not always honest. They might not lie, but they'll certainly try to paint a rosy picture.

I don't know what happened but I imagine something like:
They're negotiating with Alba. She's seen the script. She worries about a nude scene. "Oh don't worry, the audience won't see a thing. We'll keep you in a sheet. It's a few seconds, all professional, only a couple people in the room and it's over."


Reality often doesn't match what hollywood tells young actresses. I'm sure you've heard the story of Emilia Clark's nude scene in GoT and it needing to be another actor who covered her up as she cried in shame?

>Surely you read a script before you sign up and understand what's being asked?

Not necessarily - in most cases actors only get to see a specifically singled out snippet of the script before they sign up for the movie.

My thoughts too.

It's one thing to say you regretted the decision after making it. It's another to say you were dreading it for weeks and were always mixed on whether to make it or not. One statement is you claiming you changed. The other makes you look as morally superior as possible.

Who is she putting down?

Why the hell wouldn't she?

nobody is paid by check anymore; it's direct deposited.

Imagine thinking being paid means you can’t have opinions. Lord if you ever become a boss may god have mercy on your staff.

I'm sure you've never complained about your job

They tend to get asked the same questions by different journalists

Same. I remember some article where she discussed why she was deciding to leave acting and Hollywood.

Incels

Because it’s easier to be negative than it is to be supportive. Or, because people (men) don’t wish to be made to feel uncomfortable about something they enjoyed, like seeing her mostly naked.

Because a lot of people hate celebrities for whatever reason. You'd think Alba personally went to each of their houses and shot their dog for the way they speak about her.

Because they hate women

Because it's not like she's going to give the money back. Hard to feel sorry for someone who made millions of dollars doing something and then after 20 years of enjoying that money wants to whine about it. 

I think people have a hard time feeling empathy for someone who got paid millions of dollars and signed a contract to do the work willingly. Is that fair? Probably not, she’s still human and can have her experiences and those are valid. But it comes off as tone deaf to people making $20 an hour and trying to figure out how to get dinner on the table for their kids.

Mainly culture shift to the idea that anything older than the Me Too movement was inherently sexist and enjoyment of it should have a permanent asterisk, or bear a form of shame.

Which yeah we lived in a more provocative time but still.

Also when you are rich and famous you get less sympathy for professional decisions you make. If she didn't want to do it she could've said no. She chose not to and was paid for doing it. Sorry she felt humiliated but there are legit people she hires to ensure she gets roles she wants or is willing to perform.

To be a little incellike, I doubt we'd even be talking if a male actor.claimed he felt humiliated. You'd question his agency as much as others questi

Personally I recall seeing Jessica Alba in a lot of racy, sexy blonde roles and photoshoots/modeling. Her claiming to be a modest person sounds disingenuous.

Mind she is 100 percrnt allowed to feel that way. What I think doesn't matter in regards to how she feels. I don't follow her life well enough to know if my recollection of her career is accurate.

But, this is a news story. This statement wad released to make me feel a certain way and react to it. This was not an autobiography or a recorded private conversation. These were her thoughts publicated and published to have a reader give their opinion on it.

So that is why (some) people "act like she can't regret a decision." People are allowed to make statements in public and the public is allowed to judge those statements accordingly.

People can but this is bullshit, and a bit hypocritical first of all nobody saw anything secondly she wasn't saying that shit, when she got paid millions for it and last but not least she still took roles that shows some nudity or sexuality, even after doing fantastic 4.

This is a disgusting comment. Even with money people can be forced into doing something they’re uncomfortable with. And it still doesn’t change that fact that she might’ve found it embarrassing even if she did get a bonus

Because an actor in their 20's doesn't have that much power.

I want her and Vanessa Kirby’s Sue Storm to interact just because it would be a cool thing to see.

Ewww

She aint but shes a great business woman.

The scene where her and Chris evans swapped powers

I keep asking myself that question. I do not remember an Alba nude scene, and I’m pretty sure I would. I don’t want to rewatch the whole movie, but I’d be willing to watch that scene.

I thought she was just in lingerie? Nudity seems completely out of place in comic movie.

When they are on the bridge where Ben caused a traffic accident and Sue needed to go invisible to get past the cops so she undressed in public because her civilian clothes didn't turn with her, but then Reed and Johnny just walk to Ben without needing to evade the cops.

Yeah I didn’t remember it either.

Almost like consent matters

Body swapped with Johnny

You realize reading celebrity news on Reddit isn’t any different than reading a people magazine? And the OP account comments the important information so you don’t need to go to their site if you don’t want to.

Because they want ad revenue and reddit admins stopped enforcing the self promotion rule. every news company, magazine, and tabloid is doing it. 

It has been deleted by the mods. :)

Where she had zero nudity…

That’s what I always kind of default too and I liked those first two movies enough, but yeah I guess they wanted to say they had a nude scene with Jessica alba at like the peak of her popularity

Cos writers/executives saw Jessica Alba and felt the need to sexualise her for teenage audiences

It's almost like consent actually makes a difference

This is a lot of assumptions for something you know nothing about. This was back in 2007, intimacy coordinators were less likely to be involved, we don't know who her agent was or how good they were at advocating for her, we don't know who could've been pressuring her behind the scenes to say yes, and none of her previous career scenes mean she can't have changed her mind for this one

She was naked in the sense that the people working with her would probably see more than the audience. Anyone older than 10 at the time could see that they wanted to sexualize her, picture Megan Fox and that’s what they were trying to emulate with nude scenes.