# Jessica Alba - five movies out? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 12, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106 "2007-11-12T06:50:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/1 "2007-11-12T06:50:44Z")
Those of you who recall past comments I’ve made on Ms Alba would probably think I would never say that she’s over-exposed. If anything, I’d prefer she was exposed more - maybe in a black thong. But putting that aside, I saw the commercials for her new movie _Awake_ this evening and I was thinking “Didn’t she just release a new movie? _What’s Up Chuck_ or something?” So I checked IMDB and saw that she has in fact released several new movies - five since the start of 2007: _The Ten_; _Fantastic Four 2 - Rise of the Silver Surfer_; _Good Luck Chuck_; _Bill_; and now _Awake_. Now I like Jessica Alba but is it really necessary for her to be putting out a new movie every few weeks? Would it have killed her to have taken a month off and let Rachel McAdams have a movie? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/2 "2007-11-12T07:00:01Z")
Especially since the more work she gets, the less likely it becomes that she’ll have to go nude to boost her struggling career. Damn it. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/3 "2007-11-12T07:19:10Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] Especially since the more work she gets, the less likely it becomes that she’ll have to go nude to boost her struggling career. Damn it. [/QUOTE] Just go watch her dance around in Sin City. Full nude couldn’t be that much better. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/4 "2007-11-12T07:36:55Z")
We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/5 "2007-11-12T08:16:48Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] Especially since the more work she gets, the less likely it becomes that she’ll have to go nude to boost her struggling career. Damn it. [/QUOTE] I don’t know, this could work out in your favor. Her movies seem to be pretty crappy. She was the flavor of the month about a year ago (probably when these were filming) and now it seems to have passed. A few more years and you might get your wish. ---
**Author:** ![Suda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Suda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suda)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/6 "2007-11-12T08:17:15Z")
[QUOTE=Omniscient] Especially since the more work she gets, the less likely it becomes that she’ll have to go nude to boost her struggling career. Damn it. [/QUOTE] What about The Sleeping Dictionary? That movie has some great scenes… ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/7 "2007-11-12T09:12:42Z")
Body double. Sorry. I keep track of these things. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/8 "2007-11-12T15:20:59Z")
I’m maintaining hope. I figure she’s riding a big wave of publicity now. But her career seems to be stalling and soon some other new actress will be the “it” of the moment. And then maybe some producer will convince Alba she needs to do something “edgier” to advance her career and evoke the recent examples of Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, and Marisa Tomei. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/9 "2007-11-12T16:24:04Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] I’m maintaining hope. I figure she’s riding a big wave of publicity now. But her career seems to be stalling and soon some other new actress will be the “it” of the moment. And then maybe some producer will convince Alba she needs to do something “edgier” to advance her career and evoke the recent examples of Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, and Marisa Tomei. [/QUOTE] I will definitely be renting the one with Ms. Tomei in it. She was \*so \*cute in Wild Hoggs. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/10 "2007-11-12T16:29:10Z")
She’s been talking a lot in recent interviews about challenging herself and getting more serious roles; I hope that pans out for her–she’s a decent actress (not great, but okay) and seems pretty affable. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/11 "2007-11-12T16:45:40Z")
The ads for Awake show a scene where she is sitting up in bed nude with her back to the camera, sheets covering her bottom, bare back exposed- I’m betting she doesn’t stand up or turn around. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/12 "2007-11-12T16:48:22Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] She’s been talking a lot in recent interviews about challenging herself and getting more serious roles; I hope that pans out for her–she’s a decent actress (not great, but okay) and seems pretty affable. [/QUOTE] She is very affable. Many of us guys wish to see more of her aff. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/13 "2007-11-12T18:37:30Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I will definitely be renting the one with Ms. Tomei in it. [/QUOTE] Slums of Beverly Hills, but that could have been a body double. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-alba-five-movies-out/426106/14 "2007-11-12T18:50:51Z")
[QUOTE=Duke of Rat] Slums of Beverly Hills, but that could have been a body double. [/QUOTE] Yes it was. Her first brief nude scene was in _Factotum_, but you see a lot of her, repeatedly, in the terrific Sidney Lumet film **Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead** , in theaters now. And she’s a smokin’ hottie.