Venom Queen / Jessica Alba

 

JESSICA ALBA

Jessica Alba’s rise to Hollywood royalty began in the mid-1990s when, circa 1994, she landed her first role on the television series Camp Wilder at just 13 years old. Born in Pomona, California in 1981, Alba quickly established herself as a versatile actress, captivating audiences with her performances in cult classics like Dark Angel (2000-2002), filmed in Vancouver, and mainstream hits such as Sin City (2005) and Fantastic Four (2005), shot in Toronto and Vancouver. Her radiant on-screen presence combined with a unique style and compelling charisma positioned her as one of the most sought-after young actresses of her generation. By the late 2000s, Jessica’s career had evolved beyond acting, showcasing her keen business acumen.

Frank Miller / Nancy Callahan

Frank Miller

Nancy Callahan

Everyone knows Robert Rodriguez‘s and Frank Miller‘s cult movie Sin City: finally, the authors have started to work on the sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Unfortunately, there have already been some problems on the set, since Jessica Alba doesn’t want to play the “hottest” scenes regarding her character, Nancy Callahan, since she doesn’t feel comfortable with her body anymore, after two children. Since she’s lately been the most talked actress of the film, we’re going to speak about her character, Nancy.

Nancy Callahan was born and raised in Basin City, lovely nicknamed Sin City, really not a good place to raise a child in. When she was only eleven, she was kidnapped by Roarke Junior, a child-raper and serial killer, whose actions were promptly covered by Senator Roarke, his father and the city’s most powerful man. Nobody thought Nancy would have come out of it alive, but, just before Roarke could begin with her, she was saved by police detective John Hartigan, who couldn’t care less of Roarke’s influence and shot the maniac’s ear, hand and genitals. Before Hartigan could finish Roarke, anyway, he was betrayed and shot by his partner, Bob, who sent him to a coma. Nancy witnessed the entire scene, and tried to tell the policemen what happened, but they declared the girl was too shocked to tell anything sensible, and discarded her story. She also tried to testify during Roarke’s trial, but Hartigan, blackmailed by the Senator, asked Nancy to step back, and to let them frame him for the raper’s actions. Faithful to her hero, Nancy agreed, but kept writing letters to John every week, for the whole eight years he was put in prison. She had to use a false name, Cordelia, since Senator Roarke was ready to kill anyone who could say something about his son, Nancy in first place. She hid for some time, and she tried to live in the darkest corners of Basin City, so that the Senator’s men couldn’t find her. At a certain point, she was assaulted by some boys, but she was saved by Marv, an ugly brute with a kind spot for ladies who would have become one of her closest friends.

Nancy grew up a beautiful woman, and started law school, so that she could become a lawyer and save her hero from jail. In order to pay her studies, however, she ended up being hired at Kadie’s Bar, a strip club (more a dive than something else). At Kadie’s, she worked as an exotic dancer, one of the tavern’s most popular ones, and she had the occasion of meeting many of the most peculiar citizens of Basin. She had many boyfriends, but her stories ended very soon: despite she tried to fall in love with some man, she couldn’t cancel her feelings towards Hartigan, who would stay her first and truest love forever. She had the occasion of meeting the (former) detective once again when he was let out of prison, after confessing all Roarke’s crimes as his own, fearing for Nancy’s safety (Roarke had sent him a girl’s finger, making him believe it was Nancy’s). The two soon found out that their reunification was part of Roarke Junior’s plan to find out Nancy’s hideout, since he had been obsessed with her since the day Hartigan denied him his pleasure with her.

Nancy Callahan is a kind woman, a rare sight in Sin City. Despite her golden heart and good character, she often finds herself involved in underground criminality’s operation, mostly because of her friendships, which go from Marv to the Old Town‘s prostitutes. With the years, she learnt how to take care of herself, and she has grown a strong instinct for survival; underneath the hard skin, anyway, there lasts a romantic spirit, the same she had when she was a scared, wounded eleven-years-old girl.

MOVIE COMICS

Posters / Sin City / A Dame to Killer for

Posters

SIN CITY / A DAME TO KILLER FOR

Jessica Alba / An honest life

JESSICA ALBA

AN HONEST LIFE

From overcoming racism in Hollywood to building an empire from the ground up, JESSICA ALBA has earned her success on her own terms. The L.A.’s Finest star and founder of both The Honest Company and Honest Beauty discusses going her own way with SANJIV BHATTACHARYA

Photography Will Davidson

Styling Tracy Taylor

10 MAY 2019

Jessica Alba has a chip on her shoulder. I know this after hanging out with her for all of ten minutes. Not because it shows – it doesn’t – but because she tells me. That’s how she is: plain-spoken and direct. “I guess naysayers give me energy,” the 38-year-old actress says, blowing on her coffee. We’re sitting on the couch in her capacious living room on a Friday morning, her hair still wet from the shower. “When no one believes that you can be something, there’s nowhere to go but up. Right?”

Jessica Alba in Cabo San Lucas

Jessica Alba IN CABO SAN LUCAS

January de 2013

Women we love / Jessica Alba

Women we love

Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba / Black and White

Jessica Alba

BLACK AND WHITE

Posters / Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba

POSTERS

Jessica Alba / This mucho I know / ‘With this new film I wanted to kick some butt again’

Jessica Alba

This much I know

Jessica Alba: ‘With this new film I wanted to kick some butt again’

‘Hollywood can be hard for the faint of heart’: Jessica Alba.

The actor and entrepreneur, 35, tells Candice Pires about surviving Hollywood, setting up businesses, not going to college and growing up on a military base

Candice Pires
Sunday 21 August 2016 06.00 BST

I thought I was dumb because I didn’t go to college. I felt if you didn’t have a degree you’d never be respected or considered intelligent. Now I realise I’m perfectly capable of doing lots of things.

Jessica Alba

My parents had me young. They were 18 and 19 and always really fun. My dad was in the military – we used to get up at 5am and he would eat kids’ cereal and watch cartoons with my younger brother and I while ironing his clothes in just his underwear. They lived paycheck to paycheck, which made me never want to struggle.

Success in entertainment used to be purely financial for me. Once I was in my mid-20s and had achieved some degree of security, I started looking for something more substantive to focus on. Then when I got pregnant a few years later, I came up with the idea for my company [natural beauty line The Honest Company].

When I was young I didn’t know how to speak up [at work] and say, “I don’t like this.” I wasn’t that person [a sex symbol] people were portraying me as. I come from a pretty conservative background; I was a tomboy wearing baggy clothes. But you’re being marketed in a movie to sell it – I understood it was the characters I was playing.

Strong relationships with other women are important, especially after you become a mum. It gives you a sense of self to be surrounded by a group of people who accept and support you beyond your family.

The Honest Company wasn’t a slam-dunk. I wasn’t saying, “Oh, let’s license my name and sell a perfume.” As a new mum, I found it challenging to find effective products without things like synthetic fragrances. I wanted to create a consumer goods company that stands for transparency and is actually profitable.

Hollywood can be hard for the faint of heart. People hustle to be successful and then that moment when they feel they’ve made it, it disappears in an instant. I don’t feel like my persona in entertainment defines me. I’ve never put a whole lot of importance on it. When I was on every magazine cover and in all the new movies, I knew a lot of it would go away.

Jessica Alba

You learn discipline growing up on a military base. You learn that sometimes you have to do things that you don’t want to and you just have to get through it.

I spend a lot more time on my business than acting. When I can find the time and it’s entertainment, I’ll do something. With this last movie, I thought it would be fun to kick some butts again. I just sort of missed it.

I’ve always loved dressing up. I chose to do it for a living. I love that fantasy element of being able to transform yourself into a different person.

It’s really important people vote in the [US presidential] election. I know how I’ll be voting but I’m not saying.

Mechanic: Resurrection is released in cinemas on 26 August

THE GUARDIAN

THIS MUCH I KNOW

Richard Dreyfuss / ‘When I die I want the chance to hit God in the face’ 
Miriam Margolyes / ‘I adore being Jewish but I’m not a believer in God’
Carlos Santana /  ‘War is not the answer’

Carlos Santana  / ‘You can get high on what’s within you’

Georgia May Jagger / ‘With modelling, sometimes you’re punky, other times girly and sweet’

Tom Jones  / I might have become a miner like my father 

Tom Jones / ‘Fame allows you to release things that were already in you. It’s like drink in that respect’

Donald Trump / This much I know / I think I like Prince Harry

Donovan / ‘The songs try to say important things with lightness’

Ann Widdecombe / "We're far too obsessed with sex"

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge / 'Pleasure is a weapon'

Kathleen Hanna / ‘I'm a punk rock stripper with sexual abuse counsellor training’

Courtney Barnett / ‘When I go into a house I have to look in all the cupboards’

Erdem Moralioğlu / ‘I’ve always been fascinated by the way women look’

Kim Cattrall / ‘For me, sex starts in the brain’
Kim Wilde / ‘I felt caged in by Kids in America’

Emma Donoghue / ‘I’ve ended up having a family as well as being a lesbian’
David Bailey / Les is more. Except for sex

David Bailey / Cockneys don´t cry

Val Kilmer / "I think heaven is a state of mind. As hell is."

Dita von Teese / The young Marilyn Monroe was a pretty girl in a sea of pretty girls

Priscilla Presley/ 'My fear is that people will forget about Elvis'

Look of The Moment  Jessica Alba

WOMEN'S FASHION

By EDWARD BARSAMIAN

 JULY 27, 2012, 12:31 PM

The New York Times

Wylde/Splash News

The Look: Bright Horizons. Punchy stripes in sunset hues lend some flair to a black and white ensemble — and hot pink earbuds complete the lively look.

The Girl: Jessica Alba, who co-hosted a lunch at Barneys New York celebrating Narcisco Rodriguez’s new shoe line, in New York.

The Details: Narciso Rodriguez dress, shoes and bag, and Thierry Lasry sunglasses.

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