Jessica Alba offered a spot in all Rodriguez films

Actor stars in filmmaker’s Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

LOS ANGELES:

Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez once turned actor Jessica Alba down for a role in his film when she was 17, but he sure won’t let that recur. The director, who has cast Alba in a string of films including Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D and the Sin City movies, has offered her a spot in every franchise film he makes.

“I’m always trying to work with Jessica,” he said about Alba, who plays the role of a stripper in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For. “She’s awesome. She’s in my Machete and Spy Kids movies. I’m trying to put her into every franchise I have,” he said.

“I met her when she auditioned for me at 17. She was too young for the role for this movie I was making, but I kept my eye on her because she was among the few Latin actors I saw trying to break through,” he said. He said he encouraged the 33-year-old and told her to keep going. “We saw each other over the years and said we’d have to work together. When it was time for Sin City, I met with her and there she was.”

“It was hard to find [someone to depict] the Nancy (character) in the book because it was a very difficult character to figure out. But I knew I liked Jessica and wanted to work with her, so I said, ‘You know, you’re just going to have to create a Nancy’,” he added. 

Published in The Express Tribune, August 26^th, 2014.

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