ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You know, I hadn't realized before I started doing research that you're one of my people: a half-Mexican.
JESSICA ALBA: Yeah, of course. Totally. Where are you from?
Texas. But people in New York sort of don't know what to make of me. Everybody thinks I'm Asian. Do you have that problem?
Polynesian...all of the time. And everyone thinks my grandfather is Japanese. And he's fully Mexican.
Sorry to get off-subject. So, Good Luck Chuck: What's it about, and what kind of powers does Chuck have?
Every chick that he dates or sleeps with, literally the next guy she meets is her soul mate [and] they get married. And women catch on to this. And at a wedding of one of his ex-girlfriends, we meet. And I'm a penguin handler at a local, like, Sea World. The irony is that he's sitting here basically sleeping with tons of chicks because he can and she's all about love and romance and monogamy, and he's just a hotshot young dentist who has women literally throwing themselves at him. It's an R-rated comedy...
Which have become so popular lately and they're doing so well with Knocked Up and Superbad is coming out.
Superbad is really f---ing funny.
I haven't seen it yet.
Oh my God, you'll love it. It's like a Fast Times throwback, like Sixteen Candles — like an '80s movie.
Studios were going for all of those safe PG-13 comedies for a while.
They were so boring. It seemed like a time in the business where everybody was afraid to make a choice. It was about making money and then you lose the story and the characters, and nobody is relatable because everyone is so vague.
Your character in Chuck is a bit of a klutz.
Oh yeah, she's accident-prone. Literally everywhere the girl goes, bad stuff happens. I got to do a lot of physical comedy, which most women in romantic comedies don't get to do. They just kind of stand there and look pretty. I got to do all of this stuff that will hopefully make people laugh.
[Publicist chimes in to say Alba has to go soon...]
What's your favorite Mexican restaurant in New York?
La Esquina. Ever been there?
Yep. I grew up with Mexican food. I only grew up with my Mexican family, but we never spoke Spanish. I didn't take it and we didn't speak it in the house.
I'm in the same boat. But I can cook.
Me too: enchiladas, tacos, any kind of carne asada, chile rellenos.
Did you eat menudo growing up?
Yes, but it takes like two days to make menudo, and it smells up the house.
Boiling tripe just reeks. I can't eat it anymore.
I can't eat it anymore either — that weird chewy thing...When you're a little kid —
You just don't know what the hell it is.
No. [Laughs] And they put the lime and the cilantro and everything in there, so that's how they tease you.
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