Jessica Alba Reveals Struggles Over Being Classified As A Sex Symbol Early In Career



There’s no denying that a lot of Jessica Alba’s early roles were incredibly sexy ones. Her big screen debut, Honey, saw her doing a lot of sexy dancing, she was part of Marvel superhero movie history by playing Sue Storm in her skin-tight suit, and then there were more sexy dance moves from playing a stripper in the cast of Sin City. The California native spoke candidly about the struggles she faced being classified as a sex symbol early in her career.

When young actresses come into the film scene with striking sex appeal, they face the struggle of getting typecast based on their physique compared to playing a well-developed character. Trevor Noah asked Jessica Alba on his podcast What Now? if the Spy Kids 4 actress was ever “pigeonholed” into “sex bomb” types of roles throughout her career. Here was her honest response:

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. And it wasn’t just me, it was all of us right at the time. 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 whatever it is that we were selling. But I would always try to do three to four women’s magazines. So for every one guy’s, I would do three to four women’s to try and keep the balance there. You have to be strategic. I think it taught me when I thought about longevity in the business, I think being portrayed that way forced me to be even more strategic. Probably in a very early age.



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