Jessica Alba reflects on ‘awful’ ‘Fantastic Four’ nude scene at film festival
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Jessica Alba looks back on one of the most difficult scenes she had to shoot during her career.
During an appearance at the Red Sea Film Festival on Dec. 5, the 44-year-old “Sin City” star opened up about her role in the 2005 superhero film, “Fantastic Four,” and why appearing nude in one of the scenes was something she “dreaded.”
“I thought it was horrible,” she said, according to the New York Post. “It was very humiliating in real life. I grew up in a pretty conservative family and I’m a pretty modest person. I dreaded that scene for weeks. I got a lot of whiplash from that time.”
In the scene, her character, Sue Storm, appears naked in front of tons of onlookers after attempting to use her new invisibility powers to get through a police barrier, but reappears halfway through undressing.
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Alba called filming her nude scene in “Fantastic Four” “humiliating.” (Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for the Red Sea International Film Festival)
The film also starred Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis and Ioan Gruffudd as the other members of the Fantastic Four, as well as the late Julian McMahon as the villain Dr. Doom. As the only female in the quartet, Alba felt that Sue was someone she “looked up to”, adding that although “she was very motherly and very kind”, she was no pushover.
“She had a great moral compass. No matter who you are, you can look up to her,” she said. “Often the women in these stories have to be saved by a man or a villain, the problem of the story. That was back then. It’s different now.”
Alba continued to play the character in the 2007 sequel, “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.” The character was later played by Kate Mara in 2015 and Vanessa Kirby in 2025.
Her role in the film not only solidified Alba’s position as a leading lady in Hollywood, but it was also where she met her ex-husband and the father of her children, Cash Warren.
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Warren and Alba met while filming “Fantastic Four.” (Monica Schipper/Getty Images)
After meeting on the set of the 2005 film, Warren and Alba married in May 2008 and welcomed three children together: Honor, 17, Haven, 14, and Hayes, 7. The two were married for 16 years before announcing their separation in January 2025.
“I’ve been on a journey of personal realization and transformation for years – both as an individual and in partnership with Cash,” she wrote on Instagram. “I am proud of how we have grown as a couple and in our marriage over the past 20 years and now it is time for us to embark on a new chapter of growth and evolution as individuals.”
Since filing for divorce in February 2025, Alba has flooded her Instagram feed with bikini photos, showing off her revenge body.
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Most recently, she posted a series of photos from her trip to Australia, showing her lying on the sand in a mixed-print bikini, as well as a snap of her tanned legs and flat stomach with the waves crashing in the background.
Jessica Alba showed off her tanned legs and toned stomach while lounging on the sand during her beach day in Australia. (Jessica Alba/Instagram)
“The QUEEN of the bikini! Alba will always be a crush,” one fan wrote in the comments section, while another added: “The most beautiful woman who ever lived.”
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In another photo from her trip to Australia, she debuted her relationship with “Top Gun: Maverick” star Danny Ramirez, sharing a photo of the couple holding hands.
