Here is a pretty good ( IMHO ) interview with JA from the NY dailey news.
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With her curve-caressing costumes and sexy-innocent look, Jessica Alba is shaping up as a 21st-century fantasy heroine
By JOE NEUMAIER
'She has that air of just becoming a sexual being.'
Now You See Her: The Invisible Woman (Jessica Alba) deflects a blast in 'Fantastic Four.'
Get one thing clear about Jessica Alba: In "Fantastic Four," opening Friday, she is not the Invisible Girl.
"I see myself as a woman," says the 24-year-old actress.
"The difference, I think, is being responsible for your actions. It's how you conduct yourself. Girls can be silly and flippant and careless, and I've always been thoughtful and reflective. Levelheaded.
"I can be silly, but that's the part of me [the public] doesn't see. I think I'm sort of a comedian, but only people really close to me get to see it."
In "Fantastic Four," Alba's character can be "not seen" in the blink of an eye. The superhero movie - adapted from the very first of Marvel Comics' '60s-era comic books, which include "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" - tells how Sue Storm (Alba), her scientist boyfriend Reed Richards (Ioan Gruffudd), her hotshot pilot brother Johnny (Chris Evans) and the tough guy Ben Grimm (Michael Chiklis) get exposed to outer-space rays. They then become, respectively, the Invisible Woman - originally known as the Invisible Girl - the rubberized Mr. Fantastic, the fiery Human Torch, and the orange rock-man known as the Thing. After battling their enemy Dr. Doom (Julian McMahon), the FF become New York celebrities.
Alba herself is at that stage of celebrity when her very name is like a blast of Red Bull to a generation of young men. In this spring's "Sin City" she played Nancy, a onetime child kidnap victim who grew up to become a stripper and fall in love with the cop (Bruce Willis) who rescued her all those years before; her performance was a tricky blend of wounded innocence, sensuality and toughness.
A scene of Alba in a bra and cowgirl chaps twirling a lasso became that movie's iconic image. It took its place alongside sexy movie moments from earlier eras like Jane Russell reclining on a pile of hay in 1943's "The Outlaw" and Anita Ekberg cavorting in the Trevi fountain in 1960's "La Dolce Vita."
"Jessica's performance was erotic without losing any of the innocence," says "Sin City" co-director Robert Rodriguez. "She was at just the right moment when she was new for everybody, yet she was confident enough to pull it off. She has a timeless quality to her, that air of just becoming a sexual being that the character needed."
"I think tough is sexy," Alba says. "I mean, sometimes it isn't - sometimes tough is like, 'Oh, she can kick your butt!' - but being strong-willed and strong-minded is very sexy to me."
She says those qualities are crucial in Hollywood.
"I've had to prove myself my whole life," she says. "I had to prove I was intelligent, that I could act, that I could do drama and action. My next thing is to prove to people that I can do comedy."
Alba's mother is Danish-French Canadian and her father is Mexican-American. She was born in Pomona, east of Los Angeles, but spent her early years in Mississippi and Texas where her dad, who was in the Air Force , was stationed; her younger brother, Joshua, who has also started acting, was born in Biloxi, Miss., in 1982.
When the family moved back to the L.A. suburbs, Alba took up acting at age 12 to escape childhood pressures, she says. "I was not really accepted when I was a kid. I was made fun of. I looked different, I guess; kids are kids. So I know what it's like to be that person that everyone is talking about.
"I wanted to just have my own life," she continues. "On my first day on the set of a 1994 kids' movie called 'Camp Nowhere,' I realized that this is what I want to do. I wasn't a child actor. Yet I wanted to be a good actress, from day one."
'ANGEL' TAKES WING
After six years of supporting roles in movies and on TV, Alba finished high school early and attended a summer workshop run by David Mamet's Atlantic Theater Company.
She auditioned for director-producer James Cameron and won the lead role in his Fox series "Dark Angel"; she played Max, a genetically engineered young renegade in the year 2020.
Lasting two seasons, the cult hit propelled Alba onto magazine covers and posters. Her skin-tight blue spandex outfit in "Fantastic Four" will likely do the same.
"It was really uncomfortable," she says. "Wow, it was tight. Good posture was important - if you were making your stomach lazy, you could really see it. When I didn't stand like a superhero, shoulders back, back straight, it looked sloppy."
"We wanted to give Sue Storm an upgrade to the 21st century," says "Four" director Tim Story. "I thought I'd have to work with Jessica on bringing out the surrogate mom aspect of the character, but she told me she's the oldest of 20 cousins, and that maturity came through."
"Fantastic Four" also brought Alba the man she says is her "soul mate" - Cash Warren, 26, who worked as Story's assistant. Alba says he isn't intimidated by her slinky screen persona.
"No, he doesn't think of me like in 'Sin City,'" she says with a laugh. "Cash loves me so much, though. And I love him. We're just really right for each other. It's seamless. And it's nice to know that you can connect with someone."
At this point, though, there are no marriage plans.
"I haven't been shopping for rings," she says.
Alba will next be seen as a diver in "Into the Blue," an aquatic action thriller opening this fall. After that, she'll probably star in "Sonic" as a waitress who dies and is revived by her boyfriend.
"I know people will see something different in me each time," she says. "And at the end of the day, the question is, Are you okay with yourself? I really don't care about [fame] that much. It's not seductive, not for me, and it doesn't define me. I am who I am."