As one of the most gorgeous women on film, the 24-year-old Alba gets attention no matter what she does. In "Into the Blue," she joins her treasure hunting boyfriend (Paul Walker) in a sea diving adventure that involves such menaces as real sharks and drug dealers.
Q: Is there's a conspiracy to get you into bathing suits and skimpy outfits?
Jessica Alba: [laughs] I don't think I play super hot chicks. I just think that's the way they market people in bathing suits. Ashley Scott is in a bathing suit in the movie just as much as me with a lot more angles [laughs]. I play the good girl. But for some reason everyone sort of emphasizes on me being the sexy one.
Q: Did you touch the sharks?
Jessica Alba: No, sharks are pretty terrifying animals and they're not very bright. Also they're pretty much blind. They don't see the difference between you and a fish, which is why so many people get attacked. I did hit a couple of them to push them out of the way because they're dumb. I never wanted them to mistake me for a fish. So if they even came within arms length, I wasn't thinking, "Oh they're just going to swim right by," I was feeling, "Get away." I was just like constantly pushing them away from me.
Q: So you would actually strike them?
Jessica Alba: Yeah or they would get me. Paul would get bumped by them and he'd come out of the water and he'd have all these raspberries all over his body because their skin is like sandpaper. But he's fearless. He doesn't mind the shark thing. I was like, "I need my fingers. I don't want them to bite me.
Q: Of the movies you've done, which do you consider the most arduous?
Jessica Alba: This one. I never knew what scene I was shooting any day.
Everything was based off the weather. If it was partly cloudy we would go to shoot a scene that was partly cloudy but then the weather would clear up. Then we had to go under the water but it would be all murky so then we had to go on land. It was unbelievable what we went through every day doing a movie on the water because you really are a slave to what Mother Nature wants at that moment in time.
Q: In the movie you chop off the arm of a guy you're handcuffed to, could you do that in real life?
Jessica Alba: In intense situations I think you've got to do what you got to do.
I certainly had a backache for three days carrying that heavy guy around because John really made me drag the guy through the ship.
Q: You had a lot of hot scenes with Paul Walker. Was it fun to work with him?
Jessica Alba: He's a sexy guy, so I think any scene he's in is just automatically sexy. Paul is really down to earth and a guy's guy. I thought he was going to be a little bit more feminine and a precious diva like the rest of the male actors I usually work with. But he wasn't, he likes fishing and boating and surfing and competing with Scott [Caan] at any waking moment. They just like fought all the time like brothers and were very competitive about everything. So it was fun to interact with them.
Q: Scott and Paul rubbed more skin together than you and Paul did.
Jessica Alba: I'm with you. There was actually this one sequence that got cut from the movie and I hope it makes it to the DVD. It was so homoerotic. Scott and Paul did this swim underwater on top of each other. There was this really pretty music so I had to tease them about that for a while.
Q: Did you learn how to free dive for this movie?
Jessica Alba: I did. I went to the Caymans and they have this facility there where they teach people how to free dive. I just went on my own with a couple of friends and I learned how to free dive and brushed up on my scuba diving. I was kind of a little dive bum for a couple weeks.
Q: Does sunken treasure really exist?
Jessica Alba: It really does. There are real treasure hunters out there. It's a big ocean and there have been lots of storms so everything gets buried.
Q: How difficult is it to maintain your fit body?
Jessica Alba: I try to work out. I think it's the only thing that I do that I don't really like doing. It's really boring. I have to have so much stimulation when I'm sitting on that damn treadmill like earphones, magazines, television, girlfriends and boyfriend. But I don't have any strict diet. I don't have a certain food plan or anything. I'm not weird about it. I try to just work out when I can.
Q: Would you ever do something like Charlize Theron did for "Monster" and totally transform yourself?
Jessica Alba: I would absolutely do whatever I needed to do for a role. I've never been presented with a role where I needed to do something like that. But I'm not going to try and artificially create a role where I have to gain weight and not wear makeup and screw up my hair. I'm just going to continue to do what I do. For the movie "Awake," I don't have to wear a bathing suit or chaps or a superhero outfit or have to do any fighting. With that hopefully people will see that I'm not just somebody that does that to sell movies.
Q: You did back-to-back comic book movies. Do you read comic books?
Jessica Alba: No I don't. Isn't that weird? I did read them when I got the job.
Q: What did you think of the "Sin City" comics?
Jessica Alba: I thought they were profound and couldn't believe that I hadn't read them before. I was sorry I missing out on the graphic novel world. I don't think my mind could ever go where Frank Miller's mind goes. It was very old school, noir-ish. It was pretty incredible.
Q: Are you scheduled to go back to shoot "Sin City 2?"
Jessica Alba: I talked to Robert [Rodriguez] and he's doing something with Quentin [Tarantino] called "Grindhouse." They're each writing an hour-long movie and are going to use the same 12 cast members. Then I know he wants to do "Sin City" after that. But [comic creator/co-director] Frank Miller wants to do it right away. He is like a big Hollywood star now. He's being offered all these things to direct and write. I had dinner with him and he has some pretty damn cool ideas about [my character] Nancy. I think he's going to write something for me. He might do it as a graphic novel first and then release it simultaneously.
Q: How is Frank on set as a director?
Jessica Alba: I definitely get that he's an internal crazed artist. He attaches everything to the back story of the character and why she does what she does. He always approaches everything from a very emotional place.
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