In an apparent reversal of a frustrating prude streak, Jessica Alba taunts the public with the possibility that she may—under the right circumstances, with a compelling character reason, and in the sure hands of a respected auteur—get all sorts of buck naked in a movie:

JESSICA Alba is ready and willing to do a nude scene — but her father is holding back. "I'm going to have to face that when a big director who I really respect has an amazing story, it might be necessary to do a nude scene," Alba tells Britain's Zoo magazine. "But I probably couldn't sleep well at night being naked in [a movie]. My father would lose his mind."

Oh, false alarm. She may have cracked open the door to full frontal, but unless her father's health takes a sudden turn for the worse and Steven Spielberg gets horny enough to finally remake 9 1/2 Weeks, the clothes will probably stay on for a while. At least until she has problems making her mortgage payment.

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