Not only did the films perform poorly, they also left Alba doubting her abilities as an actor.
The director was like, ‘It looks too real.
It looks too painful.

Can you be prettier when you cry?
… Don’t do that thing with your face.
Just make it flat.

We can CGI the tears in.'"
Do people hate them so much that they don’t want me to be a real person?
… And so I just said, ‘F**k it.
I don’t care about this business anymore.'"
But that might be a long shot.