![]() If anything, she gives the guys a little light in their life because they're all pretty sad individuals." "For her, being a stripper is just a way to make money. "I play Nancy as this doe-eyed character who's very sweet and doesn't come at life from a dark place," Alba says. Within those harsh parameters, Alba sees her character as a relatively pure-hearted innocent doing her best to overcome a traumatic childhood incident. Everybody in Sin City is dealing with pain, physical and mental abuse." "Yeah, but don't the guys get their head blown off?" Alba says. Lucille, for example, has her left hand chewed off by a flesh-eating altar boy ( Elijah Wood) and Nancy herself is bullwhipped by the potbellied Yellow Bastard (played by Nick Stahl). She readily agrees that "Sin City's" female characters do get beat up, slapped and dismembered with disturbing regularity. "The women are completely empowered," Alba argues. "The women aren't all prostitutes or strippers! What about Lucille?" she says, referring to Carla Gugino's nearly naked lesbian parole officer character. Being nude, for me, would have been distracting, and I couldn't even conceive of being bottomless: My dad would disown me or something - he'd freak out."Īlba bristles at the suggestion that "Sin City's" portrayal of women might be perceived in some quarters as misogynistic. ![]() "But I felt like dancing around with the lasso and chaps was going to be sexy enough. "When I found out Nancy Callahan was a stripper, nudity was an option, and Robert said we could do it if we wanted to," Alba says. Once the 23-year old actress got her callback, Alba read Miller's graphic novel "Sin City: That Yellow Bastard" and learned that her character danced in boots, chaps, cowboy hat and not much else while performing a steamy rope-and- pistol act in Sin City's red-light district. "It was presented as a Robert Rodriguez film, and that's why I wanted to do it," "It wasn't represented to me that way," says Alba, perched primly on the sofa of a Beverly Hills hotel, dressed in a beige turtleneck, hoop earrings and cream-and-beige skirt.
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