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Jessica Alba is Not Happy with Her Bikini Body in Into the Blue: “I guess that’s just the disconnect. I’m not the audience member. I’m actually the person doing it and it’s not fun. At the end of the day I just had to think that girls who have curves and aren’t the skinniest things in the world are going to feel more comfortable seeing me as the main character than someone else. So hopefully if I can do anything positive with it I had to just think that maybe I would help young girls with their body image.”

Jessica Alba on Getting Wet in Into the Blue: “ I’m really comfortable in the water and so that really wasn’t a problem. I’ve been swimming since before I knew how to walk because my mom was a lifeguard in Mississippi when I was baby. That’s so random. So she taught me to swim because she was always so nervous that I would fall into the pool and not know how to swim. So I’ve always been really comfortable in the water.”

Jessica Alba on the Stunt People on Into the Blue: “I feel more comfortable with stunt people than with actors because actors don’t know what they’re doing all the time especially when you’re doing physical stuff. They were just more water savvy than the other actors. They knew what was going on and about currents and everything. So they just made me feel more comfortable. Paul’s double was amazing. He was such a fast swimmer and I would just hold onto his shoulder. The hardest thing was just trying to hold my breath as long as him.”
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Jessica Alba on the Sharks in Into the Blue: “The sharks mouth was open and was sort of coming at me and nobody was warning me. I just saw in my peripheral because of my mask that a shark’s mouth was coming towards me and so I just whacked at it and hit it away. What else are you going to do? So any time one came even this close to me I would just kind of shove it away because their noses are very sensitive and they’re not the smartest animals in the world. If it bumps into something it’s going to deflect it in the opposite direction.”

Jessica Alba on Water Safety for Into the Blue: “We’re under forty feet and then they take your mask off or they take your regulator out of your mouth and you can’t go to the top because your lungs will explode because you’re on assisted air. So you have to trust that when you run out of air that you’re going to find someone, and mind you these people are far away from us because the cameras are so wide. It just sort of helped me relax, the underwater safety people that were there and that I wasn’t going to drown.”

Jessica Alba Kept Sharks at Bay in Into the Blue: “I wouldn’t let them bump into me, but he was more like into letting them get close to him. I wasn’t. I was not happy with that at all. I would push them away before they even got close. It’s like baby snakes. They don’t know to just let out a piece of the venom. They let out all of the venom and it’s the same with little baby sharks. They’re just trying to get food and whatever is in the way they’ll just bite at and will nudge you. They are more playful and a little bit more wild.”

Jessica Alba on Paul Walker’s Diving: “You have to be able to equalize and Paul couldn’t equalize that well when he was going down. Maybe he can do it better now. Because he’s a surfer though he had this ear problem, but at the end, to be honest with you, after all this diving we all had sinus problems through the whole movie. So I think that there is one scene in particular where I had a bad sinus cold or something and my voice is really deep. I had a cold voice.”

Jessica Alba on Kicking Bad Guy Ass in Into the Blue: “He was huge. Huge. He’s like 6’5”, no joke. My back hurt. My legs hurt. By the way, none of that stuff was in the original script. In the original script it was like me trapped under the boat, passed out and handcuffed to the dead guy and then Paul comes and saves the day. And I was like, ‘Now, you guys did get me to play the girl and I think that women want to see a girl kick ass.’ Everyone was cool with it. And then I think that it made for a more interesting ending.”

The Future of Sue Storm and Reed Richards in Fantastic Four II: “I think that they need to get married. I mean, I know what the first twenty minutes are going to be of the movie. It’s really cool, but yeah, they’re getting married. Maybe I’m giving away too much, but yeah.”

Jessica Alba on Scott Caan’s “Mexican” Remarks in Into the Blue: “I was pretty irritated, and Scott grew up in Southern California and he actually, I think, says that he can speak a little bit of Spanish which is more Spanish than I can speak. It wasn’t spoken in my house at all and my father doesn’t speak it at all. But I was a bit irritated, and when you are the only half minority there is nothing that you can really say because everyone else is white. I called him a jerk and a couple of other things, but of course what makes the film is that. I didn’t appreciate that too much, but growing up and not really fitting into a Latin or a white or an anything, no one ever accepted me and so I kind of get the brunt of all those weird, racial slurs.”

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