Jessica Alba at the Red Sea Film Festival in Saudi Arabia on Friday, December 5, talked candidly about the scene, stating, “I thought that was awful. It was very humiliating in real life. I grew up with a pretty conservative family, and I am a pretty modest person. I dreaded that scene for weeks. I have a lot of whiplash from those days.”
She stated that preparing her nude sequence in the 2005 film Fantastic Four was “humiliating.” Nonetheless, the actress noted that the persona “was a woman I looked up to,” adding, “She was very maternal and very kind, but she was also not a pushover; she spoke her mind.”
“She had a great moral compass,” Alba said of Sue Storm, according to the New York Post. “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.” The actress told PEOPLE last year that she would be willing to reprise her role as the Fantastic Four in future installments.
Yes, of course. “I loved playing that character,” Alba enthused to PEOPLE about her roles in Fantastic Four (2005) and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007). “[I’d be open to] anything in the Marvel universe. I’m a fan of all the superhero stories, and it was a great time in my life,” she added. “So yeah, if they would have me, sure.”
When asked whether she had seen Vanessa Kirby’s new portrayal of Sue Storm in “Fantastic Four: First Steps,” Alba responded that she had not yet seen it. She said, “I usually watch those movies with my kids, and if ‘Sonic’ was out, my son wants to watch it 85 times in a row. When it comes to movies that are for the family, my kids dominate what we watch for sure. But I have to convince him because we have to see it! I love Marvel, and they’re so fun.”
