Jessica Alba Recalls 'Humiliating' Least Favorite Scene From 2005 Fantastic Four Movie, 20 Years Later

Jessica Alba got existent astir her slightest favourite country to sprout arsenic Sue Storm successful the 2005 movie Fantastic Four 20 years aboriginal — a “humiliating” 1 wherever her quality reappeared wholly bare implicit a bridge.

“I thought that was awful,” she said portion giving an expansive speech connected her vocation astatine the Red Sea Film Festival. “It was precise humiliating successful existent life. I grew up with a beauteous blimpish family, and I americium a beauteous humble person. I dreaded that country for weeks. I person a batch of whiplash from those days.”

That said, Alba went connected to accidental that she “loved” playing the quality and breaking sex stereotypes successful superhero media with the role. “She was a pistillate I looked up to,” she explained. “She was precise maternal and precise kind, but besides not a pushover; she spoke her mind. She had a large motivation compass. No substance who you are, you tin look up to her. Oftentimes, the women successful these stories request to beryllium saved by a feline oregon the villain, the occupation successful the story. This was backmost then. It’s antithetic now.”

Interestingly enough, Alba hasn’t had a accidental to drawback her successor, Vanessa Kirby, effort her manus astatine Sue Storm successful The Fantastic Four: First Steps. “I usually ticker those movies with my kids, and if Sonic was out, my lad wants to ticker it 85 times successful a row. When it comes to movies that are for the family, my kids predominate what we ticker for sure,” she revealed during the talk. “But I person to person him due to the fact that we person to spot it! I emotion Marvel, and they’re truthful fun.”

Alba took connected the relation of Sue Storm successful the 2005 introduction and the 2007 sequel movie Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. After her, Kate Mara played the relation successful the 2015 reboot film. Last year, Alba said she would "jump astatine the chance" to reprise her Fantastic Four role, but confirmed Marvel Studios has yet to attack her astir a return.

Marvel rebooted The Fantastic Four with Vanessa Kirby taking connected the relation of Sue Storm alongside Pedro Pascal arsenic Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Ebon Moss-Bachrach arsenic Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Joseph Quinn arsenic Johnny Storm/Human Torch.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.