Actress Carla Gugino says that while there are great positive women characters but female villains still have a long way to go. By Team Viva
From her first appearance in a TV series Spin City in 1996 to playing the eccentric mother in The Haunting of the Hill House to some terrific work in Gerald’s Game, actress Carla Gugino has come a long way and with Jett, she says that she has found a character only she could have played best.
Jett is a fun show but a little different. It’s a character that she hasn’t played yet. What made her say yes to it? Carla says, “It’s something that Sebastian Gutierrez (director and husband) and I have been working on for a long time. He wrote such an amazing role for me. He said, ‘I want you to play Daisy Jett Kowalski’. The name itself is a great thing to begin with. You always got to start with a good name. Though television is a wonderful place for female characters right now, there is still some way to go with a female villain. We have a lot of male references for that but not so much women. So yes. She is cool. She keeps her own council and lives the life the way she wants to. She is a super fierce character.”
So is there anything that she did different to prepare for the role? “A lot of things,” she says. But one thing, “As I am an Italian; I am in a habit of using my hands a lot while talking. My face is very expressive. Think of Lee Marvin, basically she reveals very little and that was much harder for me than I’d have thought,” she tells us.
Sebastian wrote all nine scripts about four years ago. Carla shares that they wanted to put it the right way but were not sure if they’ll be able to do it or not.
There are many people out there, may not be in Hollywood, but working with their partner in every field. So how difficult or easy is it to have someone by your side professionally as well as in personal life? She tells us, “I don’t know. I didn’t take any magic bullet. What is great is that we are good at different things and therefore it makes it a good balance. If we were both actors that might’ve been different. But for some reason, it’s just a very natural thing and we really love and enjoy it. We trust each other so much and I think it’s great as well as important in terms of creativity.”
The actress listens to different playlist with each character. What songs might be on her list for Jett, which also recently premiered on Star World? She tells us some, “I can give you a couple. Walk a Mile by Holly Golightly, Easy Money by Karen Anne.”
Carla’s Haunting of Hill House is the scariest of all. She tells us that she know so many people who already knew what’s going to happen in the series still they preferred to watch it during the day time. So is the series coming back with new and scarier episodes? She says, “Yes. It is an anthology so it will be a different story. But you will see some actors returning.
