Q: What I really admired about your character was that she did have this disability but she was okay with it.  She coped with it and the only reason she got the surgery was because her sister really pushed that.  Was that hard for you to wrap your mind around her being okay with being blind?  

Jessica Alba:  No that’s what I wanted.  I wanted it to be not something that she had to cope with but something that was part of who she was and she was fine with it and totally functioning in the world and quite independent and self-sufficient.  She had a regular job. It’s not like she had a job for someone with special needs or anything.  She was totally fine and it’s kind of society that tells you that you need to be like everyone else was a reason why she did it; primarily her sister and, when she got her sight, is when she actually became more handicapped than ever and she sort of fell apart.  I liked that role reversal mentality.  

Q: Was the role very physically demanding?  

Jessica Alba:  A lot of running.  Wow, running and at the end was quite tough because it was below freezing.  It was below zero when we were shooting that.  I think it was negative two.  It was so cold and I just had a little jacket on and so that was tough and we were shooting nights for about two weeks and then I guess in the burning building, in the burnt Chinese restaurant because it was such a transition going from when everything was there, then it wasn’t.  Then, I’ve got four pages of dialogue that I’m just going on and on and on about everything that’s happened. That was pretty tough.  

Q: Did you reference the original film at all, the original actress’s performance?  

Jessica Alba: No.  I definitely did my own interpretation.  I appreciated her take and how stoic she was and sort of quiet her performance was.  But, she comes from an Eastern way of looking at ghosts.  It’s kind of a part of the culture, the mysticism and it’s a little more accepted and, in Western culture it’s like crazy and ludicrous and it’s like you’re losin’ your frickin’ mind.  There’s no way.  So, we sort of approached it with more of a Western mentality about it where everyone thinks she’s going crazy and she starts to question her own sanity.  

Q: Have you ever seen a ghost or what do you think of ghosts?  

Jessica Alba:  I haven’t seen a ghost but I’m not closed-minded about it.  I think there are too many things that have happened to people in my life who are close to me and too many things that people see and hear that I don’t really know if you can say it doesn’t exist point blank.  

Q: You are responding on set to things that aren’t there and you have two directors telling you what you are seeing?  How did that work?  

Jessica Alba: Well, a bit of that was there and there were some instances where I did see the shadow guy and I did see the ghosts and they showed me what the ghosts would be doing and then they took them out.  

Q: Were the effects already done so you could see what it looked like?  

Jessica Alba: Not the effects but where a girl is coming at me, she really came at me. They did that and then she did her bit and I did my bit and I kind of had an idea of how it was going to go. The guy in the elevator stood behind me and showed me exactly where he was going to be and how close he was going to be to me and the little kid.  

Q: Creepy report card kid? Report card kid was really creepy [we all laugh].  

Jessica Alba: Yeah and he said the same thing over and over and over again.  What a nightmare!  

Q: Did he ever find his report card?  

Jessica Alba:  I don’t think so.  

Q: How hard was the scene where you’re cradling the girl that wasn’t really there?

Jessica Alba: It was tough.

Q: It did actually look like you were holding someone. Was somebody there and they took her out?

Jessica Alba: Yeah, that’s what they did. I did a scene with her in my arms. I think they weren’t sure how much they wanted to show of me and her together or of her, me by myself, all of that. So I did the scene with her in my arms and then I did it without her in my arms. That was tough for sure. Also it’s a pretty horrific thing to see somebody hanging. That was hard.