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Becoming a happily married mum has shifted Jessica Alba’s plans for global domination. Paul Byrne talks to the actress for www.movies.ie In Hollywood, it’s generally accepted that, when a female star is having trouble with her career, it’s time to go away and have a baby. There’s nothing more the general public love that seeing a caring, sharing mother doting over their little bundle of joy. Whatever doubts may have wormed their way into Joe and Joanna Sixpack’s mind about said star should, most likely, vanish in a puff of baby talcum powder and a full photospread in OK! magazine. And the star gets another shot at being box-office once again. Doesn’t always work, of course. Look at Halle Berry. Jennifer Lopez. Sharon Stone. And so many, many other brave women who turned to mother nature, looking for a little career help, only to find themselves left holding the baby. Literally. In the case of Jessica Alba though, you get the impression that her mother’s love is real. Even if her career was a little shakey when she went into the delivery room. Having first come to our attention ten years ago in the rather fine sci-fi action series Dark Angel – the only TV project produced by the mighty James Cameron – Alba struggled through some pretty poor movies before hitting the no.1 spot as Susan Storm in 2005’s Fantastic Four. The young Californian hit the top spot once again with the comic book heroes’ second big-screen outing in 2007. The fact that both movies sucked didn’t seem to …
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