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 Jessica Alba
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime There has been no female actress more firmly established in young Hollywood’s matinee idol status than Jessica Alba. After achieving incredible popularity as an action hero in James Cameron’s critically-acclaimed cult hit Dark Angel, Alba has proven herself a major box-office draw with hits like the The Fantastic Four films and Sin City. Jessica’s latest role is in the new Hollywood remake of the critically-acclaimed Hong Kong horror film The Eye. She plays Sydney Wells, an accomplished blind violinist whose ability to see again comes with a price as she begins to see the supernatural. While most actors tend to balk at doing horror movies, Alba claims her love for the genre and the character gave her enough motivation to do The Eye. “Well, I love horror movies in general,” Jessica says, “My favorites are Psycho, The Birds, Poltergeist, It, The Shining, the original Nightmare On Elm Street. I’m a fan and that’s why I wanted to do something in this genre. I also love playing the least sort of glamorous, complex, gritty roles.” Despite having already appeared in a thriller merely months ago with Awake, she states that the two are fairly different types of thrillers. “Wow! They don’t compare at all,” Alba insists, “Definitely The Eye is way more scary. It’s a horror movie, yeah, for sure. Awake was more of a psychological thriller and about someone who is dealing with surgery and trust and everyone in his life sort of betraying him.” “And in this film, it’s about a girl who has a corneal transplant and she gains the ability to see,” she continues, “She takes on psychic abilities and the downer is that the girl sees death before it happens. And she doesn’t understand because she’s literally seeing for the first time, taking in the world. She was completely blind and now not only is she taking in the world for the first time, but she’s seeing horrible things. So, yeah, definitely, The Eye’s more scary. It’s more of a ghost story than it is a gorefest.” Jessica notes that she meticulously prepared herself in emulating the blindness of her character. “I went to a blind orientation center in L.A. and one in New Mexico,” she recounts, “I lived among people learning to deal with blindness, particularly in New Mexico, which was the one I spent the most time at. And I learned how to read Braille, walk with my cane, label everything in the house, just sort of learned how to exist as someone who has blindness. I did plan all those things to my home, so I could just practice those things at home with sleep shades on.” “I also spent time with a girl that’s been blind since she was two,” Alba adds, “She’s a vocalist, in her late twenties, speaks three different languages, traveled around Europe by herself, kind of stayed by herself, lived by herself, goes to Boston University, and converts all her textbooks to Braille. So she really was my inspiration, because she ... |
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