"Tonight Show Interview Jay Leno "

[Also present were Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer and Drew Carey]
Leno: Welcome back. (talking to Ian) Have you met Jessica? Oh she’s beautiful.
Drew: Hey, I’m the one with the good body around here
(audience laughter)

Leno: She’s a young actress, starring in James Cameron’s new TV series Dark Angel, airs Tuesday nights on another network, oh it’s FOX. They know that. Please welcome, Jessica Alba

[Jessica Alba strolls in wearing a black, knee-length tank dress; her hair is straight.]
Leno: Hey, nice to meet you.
[audience howling]

Leno: Well, that’s fun. You have a lot of fans. I guess they remember the TV show Flipper, huh?
[audience clapping]

Leno: A lot of Flipper fans. Wasn’t that Flipper you were on?
Alba: Yeah, I was on a TV show called Flipper and I lived in Australia for 6 ½ months and 7 ½ months for two years and I picked up "no worries" and that was the only thing that I picked up there.

Leno: Now, "no worries". What is that?
Thorpe: It’s an Australian --
Alba: Australians always say "no worries", and you ask them for a cup of coffee and they go "no worries", 10 minutes later you ask them for a cup of coffee "no worries", so you figure you’re going to get it, 10 minutes later you ask for a cup of coffee "no worries"... That means, they’re not going to bring it to you

Leno: Well, they’re very polite. They just don’t want to tell you that. Maybe you could teach him some American phrases sometime. I feel like I’m in a bad episode of the dating game
Thorpe: [snickers]

Leno: You could help him get a green card
[Audience laughs]

Leno: Now you’ve been acting since you were a little kid, right? Since you were ...
Alba: I was 12

Leno: So Flipper was the first thing?
Alba: Kind of my first big thing

Leno: Ok Ok so now I always ask when people are kid actors: Was your first kiss a screen kiss or an off-screen kiss?
Alba: No, I’m afraid to say it was 7 ...

Leno: Oh, you were 7 ...
Alba: I was 7 years old. I was a little early with that kind of stuff, I guess. And a guy promised me to be

Leno: A guy or another kid? (chuckling)
Alba: Another kid, he was eleven!!

Leno: A guy or Drew over there? [gesturing to Drew]
Carey: Yeah, I admit it
Alba: No, Drew, you weren’t there ... sorry

Leno: It’s just a little scary ... a guy saying "hey baby". So, it was another 7 year old boy
Alba: No he was another kid. No, he was 11, you know.

Leno: So an older man
Alba: And he said I could be on his baseball team because I was always picked last. Because I was a girl, and they figured girls can’t play, and my dad always taught me to throw like a man. You know, play ball and if you play ball don’t mess around, so I could play ball and I did it well. But guys didn’t care and never picked me and he said you can be on my team and I’ll pick you first because they always picked me last, so he was like alright. And you just have to end up on whoever’s team.

Leno: But you had to give him a kiss ...
Alba: But, I had to kiss him so I did and next day I was picked last. So, I figured --

Leno: Welcome to Hollywood (laughing)
Alba: That’s men for you.

Leno: Wow, oh, that’s terrible. Ian, you would never do something like that, would you?
Thorpe: Uhm, no [laughs]
Alba: See, he’s just saying that [laughs]
Thorpe: No worries, no worries
Carey: You and I could do a show on ABC

[Alba gratefully hugs Carey]

Leno: You know Drew is really rich
Alba: I got my own money though ...
Carey: I know, that’s why I like women with their own money

Leno: Is that’s a pet peeve of yours? Lying guys?
Alba: Yeah, I can’t deal with that. Nope.

Leno: No, that’s terrible.
Alba: Who wants to put up with that stuff?

Leno: Any other pet peeves? What bothers you about men? What’s another thing that just sticks in your craw?
Alba: Uhm. Well, my brother and my father tend to (and they’re in the audience, by the way) they tend to put the razor that they used that morning next to the toothbrushes. So you get like flakes of hair on your toothbrush. And women, you know what I’m talking about. And the other thing is ... crusted, like toes, next to my coffee cup in the morning.

Leno: Crusted toes?
Alba: Well, most people’s toes are crusted. Most people’s toes are a little bit crusty and they set them up there ‘cause they’re trying to relax. But my coffee cup is there and that’s where I put my lips, my mouth and that’s disgusting

Leno: Okay, in defense of guys, since you brought up the razor issue. How many guys have done this? You put your razor down, your wife shaves her legs a bit and then you go AGHH!!
Alba: [laughs]

Leno: And you’re bleeding from the face. You have done that, thank you, so a little hair in your teeth is not as bad as AGHH!!
Alba: Yeah, it is

Leno: Now, you’re 19? You live at home? Do you have your own place?
Alba: I’m living in a hotel right now

Leno: In a hotel? You’re going to get your own place? Is that what you want to do?
Alba: I did, I did have my own place, but since I’m working, I never really get to have a proper home, but it’s good, ‘cause I’m working. I’m doing this fantastic show.

Leno: Well, geez, you’ve got tremendous ratings and everything. Now obviously you drive because you’re in L.A.
Alba: Yeah

Leno: Have you had your license long? Well, you see I had to get my license ... the day I got my license at 16, I rolled my mom’s car at 16 in one day. Are you a good driver?
Alba: I’m a pretty good driver. I’m an LA driver. You know like go really fast on the right hand lane, cut in front, turn left on red lights, that’s how we have to drive.

Leno: Can you get out of a ticket? You look like you could...
Alba: Well, I got a ticket like after 2 weeks of driving and I was with my dad, of course...

Leno: Right
Alba: I was going, like, 88 and the guy was like I’ll give you a break and say you were going 84. I was like, thanks, so then he told me you can mail me the ticket, like trying to be nice. And I was like, okay, Dad, is this all right? And he was like, "Dad??? I thought he was your boyfriend!" Well, how old are you? I was like 16 and he was like, oh, you’re going to have to go to court, and this is your father and he got all like rough and felt like an idiot because he thought my dad was my boyfriend

Leno: Well, in L.A. that would be the normal case.
Alba: That’s true.

Leno: In L.A. most guys in their 40s date women who are 16 ... In fact, that’s why in L.A. they give menus to the men because the women are too young to read the menu
Alba: I resent that

Leno: No, No, that’s not you, I’m just saying ...
Alba: ‘Cause when I’m in hotels, they do that to me. I’m like, look , I’ve got my credit card here, and I pay for it and I work.

Leno: But, see you’re feisty. I like that. You remind me of my wife when I met her, because she was like, "I’m a woman, yeah," That’s good, see I like that. I like a girl who can pull a punch.
Alba: What is she like now?

Leno: Same way, same way. Now Dark Angel you play...
Alba: Let’s go (Drew laughs)

Leno: You play a genetically enhanced character, is that the best way to describe it?
Alba: Yeah, she’s genetically-engineered

Leno: Now how enhanced is this without making a joke?
Alba: She can see farther. She is really quick

Leno: It’s not x-ray vision?
Alba: Kind of like cat vision. They took the best of the best DNA.

Leno: So you can see mice? Oh no, ok
Alba: She can see in the dark. Yeah she can see farther, she can hear better, and she plays on her intuition and she’s just cool. She rides a bike; she’s cool

Leno: Well, I hope she drives a bike better than Drew Carey
Alba: Yeah, she does

Leno: Well, congratulations on all your success. Will you come back and see us sometime?
Alba: Yeah

Leno: You were great.
Alba: Thank you

Leno: Thank you very m too Jessica Alba. Be right back with Macy Gray right after this.

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