Jessica Alba: To Be or Not to Be a Serious Actress

Jessica Alba in Honey, the 2003 music track about a dancer seeking to become a choreographer, does the dancing herself. Jessica worked hard for three months practising jazz and hip-hop dancing before filming began so she could convincingly play a choreographer leading the others in the dancing sequences.

In the Fox www.fox.com television series Dark Angel she played a gentically enhanced superhuman maximum humaniod. In Fantastic Four (2005) she was Sue Storm who was able to become invisible and transfer that invisibility to objects around her. Sue and her fellow astronaughts were exposed to cosmic rays that altered their DNA and gave them superpowers: Michael Chiklis as Ben Grimm The Thing a grotesquely misshapen monster with superhuman strength. Reed Richards playing Mister Fantastic can elongaaate his body and Chris Evans heats up the action as Johnny Storm a human torch who can emit flames from his finger tips. Now a Fantastic Four 2 is being filmed for 2007 release.

Jessica Alba's DNA is in excellent shape, even after being exposed to all the cosmic rays emitted by the 12K lights used to illuminate movie sets. What kind of condition is her intellect in? Jessica first became interested in acting at the age of twelve and enrolling in the first of a series of classes. She graduated high school at 16! and studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Fellicty Huffman (Desperate housewives on ABC) at the Atlantic Theater Company www.atlantictheater.comOff-Broadway Theater. The Atlantic Theater Company Acting School was also where Matthew Fox of Lost (ABC) and Eddie Cahill on CBS network's CSI:New York practiced their craft. (The school shares the same website.)

The school was founded by William H. Macy and David Mamet in 1985. "The story of a play and the intent of it's playwright are at the core of the creative process." the school's focus. Acting is an serious endeavour to these folks, not merely a vehicle for Land Rovering cash to the bank. The school encourages practise along the spectrum of acting: Drama, romantic comedy and projecting the character to the audience.

The Beautiful Woman Paradox occurs when an actress is regarded as "eye candy" and is cast in an ensemble primarly to become the focal point of the scene. With her education as an actor at such a high level you could wonder why she isn't offered more varied scripts, but she is just at the first turn of her career and the whole straightaway lies ahead.

Another beautiful actress, Charlize Theron was made to look as terrible as a makeup artist can make a woman look as
the street prostitue serial killer of her johns Aileen Wnornos in the film Monster in 2003. Critic Roger Ebert called it one of the greatest performances in the history of cinema. Being able to set aside her natural beauty and personality to portray a women searching for love in the most rank places, a group of people stranded in the loveless truckstop environment, shed lighting on a social problem: the lack of employment options for women at the bottom of the social strata in America. Monster was written and directed by Patty Jenkins, an "unchained woman director"; www.guerrillagirls.com please take note.Ms. Theron was voted Best Actress and won an Academy Award for her role.

We all can't be actors and actresses, but their are many very creative jobs in the film industry . Gretchen Rau was the Set Decorator on Memoirs of a Geishawww.sonypictures.com DVD available at the www.goodegg.com which won her an Oscar at the Academy Awards Presentation at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. Production Designer John Myhre was aided by Ms. Rau's experience with the Tom Cruise film The Last Samuri which was also set in Japan.

Production Design has become more exacting due to the emergence of Digital Film Production. Details in interior backgrounds are now more critical than in the past because of the clarity and crispness of the images. The old 525 line video image left a lot of detail for the super hero eye-brain connection of the audience to marvelously fill-in. The Propmisstress and Set Decorator, both of which jobs Gretchen Rau was accomplished at, will have to select even finer examples of period antiques to furnish future sets.