Actor Jessica Alba once co-starred alongside ex-boyfriend Michael Weatherly in James Cameron’s sci-fi series Dark Angel . And as is usually the case when an actor works with Cameron, the role took Alba to her physical limits. Jessica Alba barely saw sunlight when she did ‘Dark Angel’ Alba’s Dark Angel days could be grueling to say the least.
She was only 19-years-old when she was cast as cyborg Max Guevara. Yet, she worked harder on the series than she even did in some of her films. So much so that looking back on it, Alba wasn’t sure how she managed to live up to the show’s impossible tasks.
“ Dark Angel was intense for me. It was impossible for me. I worked on the weekends, 10 1⁄2 months a year, in the cold, in Vancouver; with night shoots 4 to 5 days a week.
I would leave at dark after working and come back at dark and then it was raining,” Alba once said according to Black Film . According to Closer Weekly , Alba went into a little more detail about her work schedule in an unpublished interview. There, Alba was really able to describe in detail the daily minutia of her work.
“I have to get up at 6:30 so I can work out from 7:00 to 8:30, then I have to run back to my house, take a shower so I can get picked up at 8:45 — which I’m usually five to eight minutes later for, and my driver probably isn’t the happiest man in the world — then I have to get my butt to set, go straight into makeup,” Alba said. “I eat my breakfast while I get my hair a.