Years of changing dirty diapers turned out to be a good thing for Jessica Alba in her role as Sue Storm (a.k.a. The Invisible Woman), the de facto den mother to her fellow superheroes in The Fantastic Four. "I've always been quite a caretaker," the actress, dressed in a white short-sleeved blouse and a purple swing-style skirt, told us at an event for the comic-book-based movie in Mexico City. "I'm the oldest of 15 cousins and I’ve been changing diapers since I was 5 years old so it was like second nature to take care of everybody."
And her motherly instincts really kick in when it comes to her two pug pups, Sid and Nancy. If Alba possessed her character's force field, "I'd protect them from getting hit by cars because every day they stress me out that they're gonna get hit by a car," she says.
But there's another quality she wishes she didn't share with her onscreen alter ego: "I can be a little bit controlling, a little bit of a know-it-all." |