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In the early noughties Jessica Alba rapidly broke into Hollywood. The actress was invited to many films and she could be seen in big Hollywood movies. But by the end of the noughties starring Jessica Alba became much less, and her films often began to go straight to video. I would like to remember the career path of the actress.share
A lot of her movies bombed at the box office and got panned by critics. The only movies that did well box-office were adaptations, like Fantastic Four and Sin City. Studios realized she wasn’t a draw as an actress
shareShe is extremely wealthy from her cosmetic company so acting is probably just a hobby for her.
shareApparently she have fallen out of love with filmmaking. She wanted to focus more on motherhood and family.
She had a few "experiences" and had to get on her back and spread her legs to get a head. Something she have struggled with afterwards.
I was wondering "what happened to her?" as she was all over the place back in, like, 2005. It's as though a lot of A-list celebrities just vaporize overnight, or only were A-list for 3-4 movies and then disappear back into acting in either nothing or a bunch of low-budget arthouse stuff that gets no attention.
With actresses it's a mixed bag, but I wonder what is the main killer of their career of the following:
1) Having kids and taking a few years off to focus on family.
2) Becoming unattractive in some way, be it weight gain (Kirstie Alley), extreme weight loss (Christina Ricci), aging (pretty much everyone at some point), doing and saying a lot of weird things (Sean Young, Anne Heche), or bad cosmetic surgery (Rene Zellweger).
3) Merely hitting some arbitrary age, be it 35 or 40 or 45. Somewhere in there it just isn't believable to have them as a romantic foil to the hunky hero. Every now and then there's someone like Monica Bellucci or Salma Hayek who can keep it going even longer than that though.
4) Making enemies with too many powerful people (Ashley Judd).
5) The public just plain getting tired of them, either via over-exposure (Reese Witherspoon) or too many "antics" (like Paris Hilton or Bri Larson).
I guess there's also this:
6) They were in too many films in a row which lost money.
There was one director I worked for in LA where this was absolutely the case. He had two big opportunities to direct big studio films. Both film bombed pretty bad (especially the second) and he got no more chances to direct studio films.
It's funny how unforgiving the movie business is for starring actors and directors, but pretty much nobody else. Like, nobody blames the make-up department or the cinematographer for why a movie bombed. There's even very little blame given to writers for a bad movie (or credit for when a movie is good) that loses money. Same with supporting cast - nobody seems to care about them having been in bombs. I suppose it's because the stars are seen as a marketing device which either does or does not work, and the director is seen as the person who was supposed to make a movie make money, even if a lot of things (like how the movie is marketed and released... sometimes even the script, editing, casting, etc) are not in their control.
I remember Rene Russo (who to me is one of the all time beauties) around the mid90s saying she thought she had about five years left of a career playing leading ladies due to her age.
shareBeautiful yet generic actress with mediocre talent.
Her refusing to perform nude didn’t help.
Yeah she miscalculated- if she went nude people would've kept going to her movies to see if it would happen again. Instead since we knew she would never go naked, what was the point in seeing the movie? Imagine if she was fully butt ass naked in Sin City, it would keep being watched and screenshot today. It's nice to think people are still lusting after you, especially when you get older. Now she's known more for being a stuck up airhead.
shareShe was a terrible actress and she kept choosing terrible films to be in. I think she just has bad taste- anyone could tell you Spy Kids 4 would be a horrific bomb, yet she wanted to be there just to do her stupid 'pregnant spy' idea she pushed since Fantastic 4.
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