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Jessica Alba says that filming the nude scene in 2005’s Fantastic Four was “humiliating.”
Directed by Tim Story, 2005’s Fantastic Four is a pre-MCU Marvel movie that stars Alba as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman, Ioan Gruffudd as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic, Chris Evans as Johnny Storm/Human Torch, and Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm/The Thing. It was followed by a sequel, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, in 2007.
The Fantastic Four movie involves a bridge rescue sequence where Sue needs to get past a blockade of cops. In order to do so, she turns invisible and removes her clothes; however, having not yet mastered her powers, she briefly becomes visible again while undressing. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer then features a similar moment where an unclothed Sue falls in front of a crowd and is photographed by reporters before she turns invisible.
What did Jessica Alba say about filming the Fantastic Four nude scene?
Speaking at the Red Sea Film Festival, per Variety, Alba said that the bridge moment in the first Fantastic Four was her “least favorite scene” and that she “thought it was awful.”
Alba continued, “It was very humiliating in real life. I grew up with a pretty conservative family, and I am a pretty modest person. I dreaded that scene for weeks. I have a lot of whiplash from those days.”
Alba did say she “loved” how Sue Storm broke gender stereotypes in superhero movies, adding, “She was a woman I looked up to. She was very maternal and very kind, but also not a pushover; she spoke her mind. She had a great moral compass. No matter who you are, you can look up to her. Oftentimes, the women in these stories need to be saved by a guy or the villain, the problem in the story. This was back then. It’s different now.”
She also said that she hasn’t yet watched Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps because she usually watches those movies with her kids, and her son currently only wants to watch Sonic the Hedgehog “85 times in a row.”
