Jessica Alba agreed to appear in Robert Rodriguez’s 2010 exploitation film Machete only after asking for sexual content involving her character, Sartana Rivera, to be removed. Alba has maintained a no-nudity policy and said she felt such scenes would not improve her films, so Rodriguez altered the screenplay to accommodate her boundaries.

Machete was deliberately styled as a violent, sexually explicit tribute to 1970s and 1980s B-movies. Although Rivera appears in a sexualised shower scene, Alba’s apparent nudity was created digitally, with her underwear digitally removed rather than filmed as actual nudity; the article also notes her character’s kiss with Danny Trejo’s much older protagonist.