Jessica Biel is doing another round of interviews to promote her film, Easy Virtue. What’s that? You’ve never heard of Easy Virtue? It got a limited release a few weeks ago, and it’s probably left the handful of theatres it was being shown in. But Jessica is still out there shilling, so I give her some credit for being a professional in that respect.

Jessica’s latest magazine cover interview is for Gotham Magazine. The images are gorgeous – when she’s got all of her hair, makeup and lighting stuff done, the girl photographs beautifully. In paparazzi photos she usually just seems utterly plain (to me at least). I think a lot of it has to do with the way she carries herself. She seems like the kind of person where the pose can really help or hurt her. In the interview, Jessica doesn’t really backtrack from last month’s Allure interview, where she was whining about how her beauty “really is a problem.” In this interview, Jessica is talking about how she wants to balance the “very sexy” side of herself with the “really attainable, kind of like a girl-next-door quality.” Jessica really thinks she’s hot stuff, doesn’t she?

She’s been on nearly every list with the word “sexiest” or “hot” in the title: Maxim’s 2009 Hot 100 (No. 11), FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2009 (No. 7), and Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive 2005, to name a few. But make no mistake: Biel’s not one for complacency.

“I don’t really think about those things and think, Oooh, yay—I’ve made a mark, all right,” she says. “But balancing the idea of being very sexy and then also being really attainable, kind of like a girl-next-door quality, is I think really important. To be able to bounce back and forth. [Because sometimes] the interesting characters are dark, conflicted…tortured souls; those are the characters I’m most interested in playing.”

Like the roles she favors, Biel herself is anything but one-dimensional. She makes time for her friends and family, stays active and experiments with photography (“[My camera is] a beautiful, massive thing— I look like a [member of the] paparazzi when I have it.”)

She was recently named global brand ambassador for Revlon, and is also half of the production company Iron Ocean Films. (Along with her partner, Michelle Purple, she has produced films like this year’s The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and the 2008 short film Hole in the Paper Sky.) “It’s extremely hard, the development process, and long, long, long,” she says of the endeavor. “But it’s been really great.”

[From Gotham Magazine]

My one-word summary of Jessica Biel is “meh.” She’s not as gorgeous as she thinks she is and she’s definitely not a very talented actress, but I don’t think she’s evil or anything. She’s pretty harmless. It just cracks me up how much women like Jessica and Megan Fox like to talk about how hot they are, and how hot other people think they are, and how much of a strain the whole beauty ordeal is. Might I suggest for all of these women to put on some clothes, stop pushing your boobs out for photographers and instead embark on a new way of viewing your beauty – as an asset that can be accentuated by taking an acting class, picking up a book, and just by simply doing something other than talking about how gorgeous you are.

Here’s Jessica shopping with a friend in New York on June 4 and June 8th. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.