Chatting "The Eye" with Mom-to-be Jessica Alba

by Troy Rogers

After breaking out with her role as Alex Kelly in The O.C., actress Olivia Wilde side-stepped the small-screen to play Jenny Reilly in the short-lived series The Black Donnellys before landing her current role of Thirteen in FOX’s hit medical show House. With House serving up new episodes over the next three weeks, one of which includes a guest appearance by Mira Sorvino on February 3, we tracked down the aesthetically pleasing Olivia Wilde on a recent conference call to get the goods on what fans can expect.

 

On whether she's ever experienced something supernatural:

"Yeah, but still, even though I have, it still seems like, ‘Really?’ You know? ... My parents had a house where we would come home from dinner and all the doors in the house would be open and all the sinks would be running water. Or it would be midnight and the volume on our TV would be to the max and all our TVs would turn on out of nowhere. They moved from the house and actually my mom's friend bought it and she blessed it and burned sage in the house to get rid of it."

Alba and whether she believes in the afterlife and those that claim they can see people:

"I'm open-minded to it. I'm not closed-minded to it."

Alba and what she does away from the industry in her spare time:

"Game night is a big deal in the house. Right now we really like Cranium Wow, Balderdash, Pictionary, Scrabble. Cranium is fun right away. You do, like, everything. And we get, like, groups of couples, like 6 groups together, 6 people in groups, and I usually cook something that can feed everyone. So I'll do, like, lasagna or enchiladas or something. It's fun. I do that, like, once a week."

On whether she's worried about the paparazzi during her pregnancy:

"The thing is, I think it’s in England where you can’t show the kids faces. And that is right because they’re not in the public eye. I think if they could do that here it would be wonderful. When I started acting, it wasn’t this bad. It’s bizarre and it seems like anybody can buy a camera and call themselves a paparazzi and stalk people for a living. It’s really strange. I’m not doing anything interesting or salacious. I’m going to the gym because it’s good for me and the baby, and going to the grocery store because we need food in the house, and it’s really not that interesting. I’m not trying to be out there in that way."

Alba on her recent trip to Sundance:

"My fiancée has a movie there. It was great. I was there to support him. He's always supported me and he had a movie - and it's a very powerful important movie - and I felt so proud of him that I got to be there and support him. I'm always dragging him over here to these things. He puts on the suit and he does it with me because he loves me, but it was nice to be able to be there just for him. The focus wasn't on me."

On the changes she's experienced while traveling around the world:

"I've been traveling and working in other countries since I was 13, so I've had a bigger perspective, always. And it's always been sad to me. At first, the United States was the best, and then now it's like, ‘Wow, the world does not have the same respect.’ Our dollar is crap. It's unbelievable. I remember in Canada it was $1.36 Canadian and now it's like .98 cents. Wow, it's so different. So yeah, we need to change something. Our economy needs it, our people, healthcare, education, all of it. You can't pay $500 a month for healthcare and not be able to see a doctor for 7 hours. That's ridiculous."

Alba on whether she's planning for another film in 2008:

"Yeah, if the writers strike - everything is kind of depending on the writers strike, and then if they resolve the actors strike. I think we all have to come to the same conclusion."

Jessica Alba on what she has lined up next:

"The Love Guru with Mike Myers. It’s along the lines of Austin Powers. It’s really original, what he did with it."

-- Troy Rogers

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