Jessica Alba covers the latest issue of Elle. For the oddly Summery-looking December 2010 magazine, Alba talks about how ‘good actors’ go off-script, ‘unless it’s amazing writing’. The funniest thing about her comment being that she seems to think she’s one of the ‘good actors’. From the little I know of the inner-workings of the movie industry, that’s a HUGE no-no. You’ll pretty much p**s off any credible director, if you start making-up lines as you go along. The script could have been worked on for years before you ever see it, so it tends to annoy people peeing all over that hard work. Alba looks pretty poorly Photoshopped for the Elle cover. If you look at her non-existant waist, that’s small… but not that small, you’ll see what I’m getting at. Her face looks too narrow. Like it was stretched vertically to thin it. And half her thighs are MIA.
- On acting: ‘Good actors, never use the script unless it’s amazing writing. All the good actors I’ve worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.’
- On owning up to her choice of roles: ‘I know I haven’t been swimming in the deep end with some of the movies I’ve done. I wasn’t trying to. I knew what they were.’
- On her feelings towards being a leading lady: ‘Now I prefer I’m not the lead. It’s a totally different approach; way better.’
- On gaining confidence in her craft: ‘I’d been so afraid of criticism ever since I was young. Every time I’d get a critique or some redirection, I’d always just take it very personally, but now I have no problem with it. It’s just a chance to try things a different way. To play more with a character. It also gives me a chance to have some input, to use my voice.’
- On taking a break from Hollywood after she unexpectedly got pregnant: ‘I had been working straight since the age of 12. And it was just so clear that there was something more important out there.’
- On being selective with her roles: ‘The time I’m not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It’s all about the directors.’
Jessica Alba Elle US magazine December 2010 cover behind-the-scenes video.
Yes, the hips are gone and the face is “who the f**k is THAT?
And “off-script, is for improv comedy ONLY – so my darling Amy, for your claim that you are not in “the industry” you hit it dead on. Actors do NOT improvise as they feel like it – it is once in a blue moon that a Paul Newman, a Dennis Hopper, or a Meryl Streep, may have said in an interview that yes, the added a line, and the director kept it.
Jessica Alba? Who is she, by the way? I have been meaning to ask.
xo
Thanks!
I didn’t want to speak for real industry people. But, I felt the need to say something about how disrespectful her comment was for people who didn’t know better. Yeah, only great actors are occasionally given room to improvise. That was the impression I had too. Alba’s a part-time clown, clearly. In case you’re wondering.