Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino
Carla Guginois an American actress. She is known for her roles as Ingrid Cortez in the Spy Kids trilogy, Sally Jupiter in Watchmen, Dr. Vera Gorski in Sucker Punch, and as the lead characters of the television series Karen Sisco and Threshold. Her feature film work includes starring roles in Son in Law, Sin City, Night at the Museum, Mr. Popper's Penguinsand San Andreas, as well as Kelor in the DC Extended Universe. Gugino has had lead roles in the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth29 August 1971
CitySarasota, FL
CountryUnited States of America
I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
It's interesting how when you walk into a room in LA there's a sense of what you walk in, as is sort of what you can do. So I spent a lot of time choosing different things to hopefully show people that maybe that's not the case.
I think that once somebody sees something, or feels it in the consciousness of society, it starts to allow change for other people.
There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in which everyone naturally comes together. I think you see the best in people in those moments for better or for worse and you find your best self.
I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.
The interesting thing with acting, actually, is that you get to be so many different people that you get to do so much research on so many different things that I've learned so much about brain surgery and about astrophysicist-type of things and traveling to amazing parts of the world.
I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.
I always feel like I want to work with people who raise my game, and I can do the same for them, and we can jump off the cliff together.
What I love about him [Robert Rodriguez] is that he understands that actors are transformational. It's a natural instinct to ask people to do what you've seen them do before. Until you see someone do something new, you don't know what they can.
You just became the most important person on the planet.
What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.
It was cool to play an empowered woman, one of the most important persons on the planet.
It's a really ambitious show and that to me is really exciting, ... It's something that really feels like its own, while paying homage to other things.
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.