Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Worst Miscasting Ever?


Got a chuckle out of Variety's article about Jessica Alba's new role:

Jessica Alba will topline modern-day fable "An Invisible Sign of My Own." ... "Invisible" revolves around a young woman who has retreated from the world and is consumed by numbers and math. Things begin to change when she becomes a second-grade math teacher.

I'm having a hard time picturing Jessica Alba as someone who's consumed with numbers and math. Consumed with getting manicures and buying shoes maybe. Consumed with denying her ethnic heritage. Consumed with boring the living piss out of anyone with an IQ over 75 every time she pops up on a movie screen. All these would be credible possibilities for an Alba role. But some kind of reclusive math genius? Um...no.