Alba gets comic stroke of 'Good Luck'

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 2007 | by Will Keck

SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- After making many a man swoon on magazine covers and in films such as The Fantastic Four and Into the Blue, Jessica Alba desperately wanted to make the world laugh.

She finally has her chance in her first big-screen comedy, Good Luck Chuck. It arrives in theaters Sept. 21.

Alba, 26, plays the accident-prone Cam, who falls for Dane Cook's Chuck, a man with a "lucky" curse: Every woman he beds ends up getting engaged to the next man she meets.

A lifelong fan of I Love Lucy and The Beverly Hillbillies, Alba feared her good looks might curse her chances of ever landing a decent comedy. Knocked Up was among the comedies for which she unsuccessfully auditioned.

"I couldn't get a meeting for anything," she says. "And then...