

She is friends with her colleague Elizabeth Berkley, admires the work of Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai.
CARLA GUGINO MOVIE
It was just this little tiny movie we made alone in Austin and it became a phenomenon that continues. Carla Gugino adores dark chocolate and massages, she is engaged in yoga, takes vitamins and antioxidants, which help her easily overcome traveling and the change of time zones. If their characters were these ages in the actual film, Gregorio would have been 28 and Ingrid would have been 16 when they had their first child, Carmen.Ĭarla continued: "But Robert [Rodriguez, the director' kind of said, ‘My mom had ten kids and if we play this right, no one will ever question it.’ I think it only hurt me a little because people did think I was older than I was for a period of time."Ĭarla went on to say: "But I would never have given up that experience.

She portrayed Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre in Watchmen and voiced Kelor in the DC Extended Universe.

In comparison, Antonio Banderas was 40 years old when he played the father, Gregorio Cortez, in the first movie, so there was a 12 year age gap between them. Carla Gugino (born August 29, 1971) is an American actress. I was at least ten years too young for the role because I was supposed to have been a spy for ten years, then had two children who were now 10 and 12. Speaking to Variety about the role in honour of the 20th anniversary, Carla explained: "What’s particularly strange about the Spy Kids of it all is I was so young when I did it. MIRAMAX / TORRES, RICO, MIRAMAX / TORRES, RICO We are supposed to be actors, aren't we?" She laughs out loud, but you can see she's not all that amused.Carla Gugino says she was "10 years too young" to play the mum in Spy Kids. It was like, 'Wait, she was a mom in Spy Kids, but a lesbian parole officer in Sin City?' It's a bizarre conundrum for people that I don't always get. "I didn't realize the effect it would have until people were becoming confused. For her star turn in the Elektra Luxx series, for example, the career brunette wears a long blond wig. It's this kind of thinking that has been Gugino's blessing and curse: Having carved out a rare niche for herself as a working character actress, she's largely disappeared into her roles, some of which were not very big to begin with. Related: The Hottest Naked Women and Nude Ladies of Esquire "The idea was that if we have a very solid piece of writing and a very small crew, and people who are all at the top of their games, we could make cool movies that you can't make in Hollywood right now." "What's cool is that all these films really started as an experiment," Gugino will later say. Later today she will go back to filming their latest, Hotel Noir, with Danny DeVito, Rosario Dawson, Malin Akerman, and Kevin Connolly. But she remained a straight-A student throughout high. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. Gugino moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. She is of Italian (father) and English-Irish (mother) ancestry. She shares the place with her longtime boyfriend, as she prefers to call him, Sebastian Gutierrez, who directed Gugino and a recurring ensemble of their beautiful and talented friends in the Elektra Luxx films, and also more recently in the full-length Web movie Girl Walks into a Bar. Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist. By sixteen she was legally emancipated, working steadily in Hollywood.Īnd now she's leading the way across the grass on gold wedges to a table in the yard of a rambling house behind a high fence that seems more fanciful than real, like the set for an adult fairy tale, art-directed by Diego Rivera. Her aunt is the iconic spokesmodel Carol Merrill from Let's Make a Deal at her urging Gugino moved to Malibu one summer and tried an acting class. While attending La Jolla High School, she was recruited into the corps of Elite Petite models.

Eventually, mom remarried and settled in San Diego. Forty years old, Gugino is the daughter of an Italian orthodontist and a self-styled bohemian who fled the bonds of marriage to live for some time with her young daughter in a tepee by a river.
