Jessica Biel gets what she wants, whether it’s Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor, Justin Timberlake, or a coveted role in a film.

The tenacious 25-year-old actress even showed up to her audition for The Illusionist in full period costume in order to convince producers that her acting range extended beyond vampire slaying and screaming in horror films.

“I really think she can have one of those diverse, Oscar-winning careers,” I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry director Dennis Dugan tells GQ magazine, which put Biel on its July cover. “As far as I’m concerned, there’s no horizon to her talent.”

But let’s not forget (as if we could?) that she’s so bangin’, she puts humanity to shame. In her new interview, the cover story writer takes a photo with Biel and then makes the observation, “You never quite understand how unattractive you are until you see yourself in a picture with Jessica Biel.”

Luckily, she wasn’t standing next to anyone when she took these shots. We’ve got her all to ourselves. Highlights from the interview below:

On being named Esquire magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive in 2005:
“At first I felt really embarrassed about it. You know, it’s a weird thing to talk about. Like, ‘Hey, guys. Guess what?’ You don’t just go telling everybody that. But after I got over that, I just started to embrace it. I started thinking, If I ever do have kids, and if they have kids, I can tell them: ‘You know what? Your grandma in 2000-and-whatever was the Sexiest Woman Alive. How about that, kids?’ That’s what I started to think about. I’ll always have that picture to say, ‘That’s what Granny used to look like.’ ”

On finally being taken more seriously as an actress:
“I want choices. I want options. I want to lay out all the directions I could go and have the ability to choose. I’m slowly starting to have that now.”

On costarring with Adam Sandler and Kevin James in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry:
“It was a little bit intimidating. I really admire Adam and Kevin, but then, I didn’t try to equal them or one-up them, and the character I created didn’t have to be that. She’s the straight woman, but very fun and very cool and just—attainable. That’s the kind of part that I’d like to play more. I mean, a vampire hunter? Is that really attainable? I’d just like to play something a little more quirky, interesting, outrageous. And uninhibited.”

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