One of the benefits of the #MeToo movement is that as well as highlighting harassment, it's become increasingly unacceptable for directors to say and do things to women on the set of a movie that they used to get away with in the past. Jessica Alba had a thoroughly miserable time playing the invisible woman Susan Storm-Richards in 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,' in 2007, and there's no way that director Tim Story would have kept his job in the current climate based on the way she says he treated her.
One of the scenes in the film called on Alba to cry, which the actor is able to do easily. Story's issue with her is that she was 'crying too ugly' and needed to look 'prettier' while crying. Alba was so upset that she almost walked away from the acting profession completely. She made only two movies the following year, as she looked to rediscover the passion for her craft that she'd lost on the set of the superhero film.