Jessica Alba has taken aim at Marvel for still being "quite Caucasian".
Speaking to Glamour UK, the 41-year-old actress said she believes the popular franchise is way too heavily dominated by white actors.
Alba is something of a veteran when it comes to the MCU. She played Sue Storm in 2005's Fantastic Four and in 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer.
And while movies of the genre appear to be more diverse in recent years than they once were, Alba insists it's still "more of the same".
She said in the interview: "Even if you look at the Marvel movies – that’s the biggest driver of fantasy and what’s happening right now in entertainment, because it’s sort of the family thing – it’s still quite Caucasian.
"I would say I was one of the few back in the day… And it was before Marvel was sold to Disney, but it’s still quite more of the same."
Alba went on to say regarding progress in the film industry: "It's a business initiative for people now that they realize how much money they can make. It's something they care about, which is fine.
"How they get there really doesn't matter. You're like, 'Great. Now you realize there's a whole group of folks that you just frankly left out of the conversation because you just didn't even see them. They were there the whole time.'"
"And I guess it's the people in charge. However they get there, it really genuinely doesn't matter," she continued. "I just think more for the younger people who are coming up, who are going to be our future leaders, it's important for them to see the world on screen, or in stories, in the dreams that we create as entertainers; it reflects the world that they're in."
Alba had previously spoken out about how her Mexican American heritage held her back from movie roles in the early 2000s.
“They couldn’t figure out my ethnicity,” Alba told PopSugar in 2017. “I would always go out for ‘exotic.’ They were like, ‘You’re not Latin enough to play a Latina, and you’re not Caucasian enough to play the leading lady, so you’re going to be the “exotic” one.’ Whatever that was.”
