Jessica Alba of Into the Blue

Jessica Alba is one of the most gorgeous women in the planet. 2005 has been a huge year for the young star, having appeared in Sin City, Fantastic Four and now the sexy action thriller, Into the Blue. We are in awe of this woman. Read on.

UGO: Hello Jessica, welcome back to New York!

JESSICA: Thank you. I get to be a New Yorker soon. I'm doing a movie here called Awake with Hayden Christenson for the Weinstein Company.

UGO: You had a lot of hot scenes with Paul Walker. Was it fun to work with him?

JESSICA: He's a sexy guy so I think any scene he's in is just automatically sexy. Paul is really down to earth and a guy's guy. I thought he was going to be a little bit more feminine and a precious diva like the rest of the male actors I usually work with. But he wasn't, he likes fishing and boating and surfing and competing with Scott [Caan] at any waking moment. They just like fought all the time like brothers and were very competitive about everything. So it was fun to interact with them.

UGO: Scott and Paul rubbed more skin together than you and Paul did.}

JESSICA: I'm with you. There was actually this one sequence that got cut from the movie and I hope it makes it to the DVD. It was so homoerotic. Scott and Paul did this swim underwater on top of each other. There was this really pretty music so I had to tease them about that for a while.

UGO: Did you get to touch sharks for real?

JESSICA: No, sharks are pretty terrifying animals and they're not very bright. Also they're pretty much blind. They don't see the difference between you and a fish, which is why so many people get attacked. I did hit a couple of them to push them out of the way because they're dumb. I never wanted them to mistake me for a fish. So if they even came within arms length, I wasn't thinking, "Oh they're just going to swim right by," I was feeling, "Get away." I was just like constantly pushing them away from me.

UGO: So you would actually strike them?

JESSICA: Yeah or they would get me. Paul would get bumped by them and he'd come out of the water and he'd have all these raspberries all over his body because their skin is like sandpaper. But he's fearless. He doesn't mind the shark thing. I was like, "I need my fingers. I don't want them to bite me."

UGO: Did you learn how to free dive specifically for this movie?

JESSICA: I did. I went to the Caymans and they have this facility there where they teach people how to free dive. I just went on my own with a couple of friends and I learned how to free dive and brushed up on my scuba diving. I was kind of a little dive bum for a couple weeks.

UGO: Did you do any research on sharks?

JESSICA: The stuff that I learned about the sharks was from walking around with the actual shark wrangler at the Atlantis Hotel who does the job that I was doing in the movie. I just went around with her and picked her brain. She's a little, petite Bahamian woman who's the head shark wrangler. She told me that they go out into the middle of the ocean, scoop up sharks and put them into the tank at the Atlantis. Then once they get to a certain size they have to let them out again.

UGO: How long ago did you film Into the Blue?

JESSICA: What's funny is I did Into the Blue right after Honey. So I did Honey, Into the Blue, Sin City, Fantastic Four and the movies came out Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue. In my really delusional mind I thought I was going to be paid to hang out in the Bahamas and scuba dive for four months. Then I realized we're shooting in the winter with wild sharks in every single water scene. They would chum the water and get sharks to be around. I also thought we were going to be wearing wetsuits. But they were like, "The film takes place in the summer" and I was like, "But we're shooting in the winter!" But I didn't have a choice. The thing is I wanted to do the movie because the script was such a page-turner, I read it in 45 minutes.

UGO: You always play these super hot chicks. You think there's a conspiracy to get you like in bathing suits and skimpy outfits?

JESSICA: [laughs] I don't think I play super hot chicks. I just think that's the way they market people in bathing suits. Ashley Scott is in a bathing suit in the movie just as much as me with a lot more angles [laughs]. I play the good girl. But for some reason everyone sort of emphasizes on me being the sexy one.

UGO: Does sunken treasure really exist?

JESSICA: It really does. There are real treasure hunters out there. It's a big ocean and there have been lots of storms so everything gets buried.

UGO: Did you meet any treasure hunters while you were down there?

JESSICA: I didn't run into any.

UGO: Of the movies you've done, which do you consider the most arduous?

JESSICA: This one. I never knew what scene I was shooting any day. Everything was based off the weather. If it was partly cloudy we would go to shoot a scene that was partly cloudy but then the weather would clear up. Then we had to go under the water but it would be all murky so then we had to go on land. It was unbelievable what we went through every day doing a movie on the water because you really are a slave to what Mother Nature wants at that moment in time.

UGO: Have you seen [director] John Stockwell's '80s movies like My Science Project and Christine?

JESSICA: No. He's funny because he doesn't even really acknowledge that he's an actor. Although he gave Scott a little bit of a hard time because I think John would have played the Scott character in the movie. So he was kind of poking at Scott more than he would poke at anybody else.

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