Carla Gugino has always been incredibly hot from Spin City to Sin City. So it's no surprise that she's been cast as the original Silk Spectre, a vivacious 1940s-era crimefighter in a skimpy suit for Zack Snyder's hotly anticipated adaptation of the legendary graphic novel Watchmen. MTV recently got some details about her time on the set and the film itself.
“It was really one of the craziest, most fun roles I’ve ever gotten to play,” marveled the “Sin City” star, cast as the burlesque dancer who proves to be the most PR-savvy of the complex superheroes. “I start at 25 years old in the 1940s, and I age to 67 years old with full prosthetics in the 1980s. [Sally] is a larger-than-life character. She’s a costumed crime fighter, but her idea of a costume is very Bettie Page-meets-[Alberto] Vargas.”
“The rape scene is pretty crazy that Jeffrey Dean Morgan and I have,” Gugino insisted. “Not that I would say that’s the one I really want you guys to see. … The title sequence of this movie is going to be extraordinary. We spent many weeks over the time of the shoot shooting it. That’s going to be a very, very special thing that wasn’t scripted, that will be really empowering.”
“It incorporates real history and the fictitious world of Watchmen, and so it’s very cool,” Gugino explained. “We meet Nixon and all sorts of people.”
And once those credits conclude, Gugino gets to squeeze into a famously skimpy costume and re-create the character’s superhero heyday. “I kick a small amount of ass. I don’t kick as much ass as some people do in the movie, however,” she sighed. “But I get to play an old lady, which was just, for me, the most fascinating thing. To start as this young crime fighter and end up an alcoholic woman in her late 60s was for me enough of a challenge; let’s put it that way.”
Not too long ago, her co-star Jeffrey Dean Morgan sat down with me to talk Watchmen shop as well, including his take on this disturbing rape scene.
The character I'm playing is, again, a far cry from anything I've ever done before. It's kind of a tough character for me. It's just a hard role to play. Shooting some of the scenes and some of the things he does... I go home at night and it really makes me think. It's hard sometimes to do. I understand it's all acting and stuff, but there's a rape sequence in there, for instance. That was a brutal two days of filming. Just internalizing it all, and I'd sit and watch playback and just go “My god, what am I doing?” And my fan base of all those Grey's Anatomy fans are going to lose their shit when they see this. “What happened to Denny, man?!” It's a hell of an experience.
And here's the first look at some photos from the Watchmen set as well, from a month or so back.
