Carla Gugino: Being beautiful is a ‘wonderful thing and a liability’ | pbpulse.com

Carla Gugino has played a wide range of women in her career, but never a porn star. Now, thanks to her longtime boyfriend, filmmaker Sebastian Gutierrez (Snakes on A Plane, Gothika), she gets her chance in the dramedy Women in Trouble.

Gugino doesn’t get any sex scenes, but she does appear in lingerie, as do most of the other actresses. Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out from Carla why the female cast members were ready to strip down to the bare essentials.

Maybe his accent helped.

“There is no one besides Sebastian Gutierrez that could get all of us in this movie into our underwear and still have us be OK with it. I think it’s his European sensibility and style, even though he was born in Venezuela. In countries like France, Spain and Italy, women are celebrated for their physical beauty, but they also can be strong and complex. This film is a celebration of the complexity of women. It’s like, do not judge a book by its cover. You may think you know a porn star, but you’re going to get to see a whole other side of her.”

Why she stayed away from the real thing.

“There’s a level of darkness that’s involved in the world of adult filmmaking, and I didn’t think it was going to help me to really delve too much into that. I did talk to some porn actresses and I checked out the book by Jenna Jameson, who sort of turned the whole scenario into a bestseller. I’m just not a big fan of porn movies. I want them to be sexier. And being an actress, I’m always critiquing the production and going, ‘The lighting is terrible. Her make-up is bad.’ I’m not the best audience.”

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