Jessica Alba Talks Sex Symbol Status During Early Days of Her Career, Where She Feels at Home in Hollywood
justjared.comJessica Alba opened up about her Hollywood career and the pressure of being presented as a sex symbol at the start of it.
The 43-year-old actress is making a return to acting with Trigger Warning, her first movie since 2019′s Killers Anonymous. During an appearance on What Now?
with Trevor Noah, Jessica reflected on where she feels the most at home in the industry. She also spoke about how the way she was presented caused her to second-guess herself. Keep reading to find out more… On the topic of being a sex symbol, Jessica said that the pressure felt inescapable. “I think that no matter what role whether I was doing like a dance movie you know to inspire young girls like Honey, or if I was Dark Angel where I was a genetically engineered like super human, or if I was Sue Storm, who was a very like maternal kind of superhero, they would always feel like they needed to sell me to the fanboys in a certain way,” she said, adding that it was something all actresses faced at the time.
She continued, saying, “And so yes, there were like two or three of these men’s magazines that we would all do to, you know, try and get those fanboys to go and show up and watch.
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