Jessica Alba is talking about a scene in her new film “Good Luck Chuck.”
“Did you think I was naked?” she asks.
As the object of comedian Dane Cook’s desire, Alba at one point flits across a doorway wearing no shirt.
So the answer is … “Yeah?”
“Nope,” she says, smiling and pointing to her chest. “People think I am, but I was wearing tape.”
Alba, who may be the most downloaded celebrity on the Web, is no ditz. This may disappointment those who prefer to think, as her co-star Cook put it, that “God doesn’t give out with both hands.” She has a plan, which is not to be anyone’s cupcake du jour.
“I didn’t want to be just the cute girl on the side waiting for the man to sweep her off her feet,” Alba said of “Chuck,” a comedy in which she plays a less-than-graceful penguin specialist named Cam.
In one scene, Cam falls into Chuck’s Mustang face-first. It looks too painful to be planned.
“The script said ‘climbs in,’ ” Cook said. “And lo and behold, she dives into the car, which is a stick-shift, ’60s model that’s all metal and rubber. It showed a lot of heart and shows she has the heart to evolve.”
Alba holds her own with Cook, a popular stand-up comedian.
“I would never even get into the rooms for comedies,” Alba said, “because people didn’t think it was something I could do. So I hosted the MTV Movie Awards, where I knew I would have to do skits and comedy, and figured if I couldn’t do it, then I had no business doing comedy, I should get that dream out of my head. But I ended up really enjoying it.”
At the time, she was up for the role of Cam.
“I was there,” said Cook of the MTV show. “I called my agent from my seat and said, ‘If she wants it, it’s hers.’ “
