23 Reasons Jessica Alba Left The Hollywood Limelight

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1. Her Marvel Movies Were An Embarrassment

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Starring in a major DC or Marvel film is an actor’s dream. It’s the road to immense popularity, playing instantly recognizable roles and potentially giving the actor a ton of projects in the foreseeable future. While superhero movies propelled many actresses to even greater heights, including Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lawrence, and Gal Gadot, starring in the 2005 superhero film Fantastic Four may have marked the beginning of Jessica Alba’s descent into a Hollywood slump. Unlike many celebrities who struck career gold in the superhero market, Alba had the misfortune to be involved in a Marvel film that was strangely a complete miss. Critics said calling Alba’s Susan Storm / Invisible Woman an embarrassment was an understatement. A brutal review from The Guardian insinuated that Alba only got the role because of her beauty—even going as far as to say that her “superpower is to be invisible.”

Chris Evans, who played alongside Alba as her hot-headed brother Johnny Storm, managed to bounce back from his cringe-worthy role and went on to become the great Captain America. Unlike Evans, Alba’s image was stuck with the un-marvelous memory of a superhero franchise so incredibly bad, it made her quit the biz then and there.