”Fantastic Four” vs. “Sin City:” “The ‘Fantastic Four’ couldn’t be more different. The ‘Fantastic Four’ is a family movie. I play a scientist who has a problem expressing her emotions. And her DNA was altered and when she does express her emotions, she goes invisible. So when she’s screaming, she goes invisible. When she’s having a meltdown, she goes invisible. And she’s completely frustrated. And the man that she’s in love with ignores her, and she goes invisible. So, that’s frustrating. It’s very big and it’s a huge, huge movie for Fox and there’s a lot of pressure that it does well. It really couldn’t be more different,” said Alba.
Working on “Into the Blue:” “…I did that a long time ago and Jim Cameron has been sort of kind of talking about maybe doing a comic book that involves scuba diving. ‘Fathom,’ it’s sort of like this girl underwater. And I had been talking to him about possibly doing something like that and this movie came up and I hadn’t scuba dived in seven months. And they were going to give me a decent paycheck to scuba dive in the Bahamas for five months. I was like, ‘Cool.’ Obviously that’s why I did that.”
Breaking Out of Being Stereotyped: “As a Latin, I don’t know Benicio [del Toro’s] experience but it’s a lot different for me because I only used to get break-downs for Maria, the janitor’s daughter who was messing around with the white kid. It was such a classist, bizarre thing because I grew up in the United States, my mother’s white, my father’s Mexican. My father’s very dark and my mother’s very fair, and I came out how I did. And they always want to pigeonhole you and it’s bizarre.
We’re just people living in society and I never think about it until people make me think about it. In this industry, it definitely made me think about me being a Latin girl. Up until I was 18 and I did ‘Dark Angel’ and Jim [Cameron] basically said, ‘You’re the future of the race,’ and that’s basically what ‘Dark Angel’ was, where you’re just a mixture and we’re not going to talk about it. And it’s done and you’re just a human being going through the struggle of whatever you’re going through in your journey. Now, it’s very liberating working with people that aren’t going to pigeonhole you as the janitor’s daughter. “
