Carla Gugino on Every Day, Sucker Punch and Fond Memories of ALF

As we discussed, you've been involved in a lot of films and television shows. What are you most recognized for?

Well, it's interesting because I look so different in so many different things I've done. And I color my hair a lot of different colors so I usually am pretty safe in that regard. And over time it's different things, but when I was doing Spin City, that was something. And then Karen Sisco and various movies. I would say, overall, probably in the last couple of years, Entourage would probably be the thing. If I was to have to pick one thing, I would say that is the thing that people say, "Oh my God, you're the agent on Entourage!"

They never say Amanda Daniels?

No, people in Los Angeles or New York say Amanda Daniels. I mean, come on. But not in the rest of the world.

What can we look forward to with your role in Sucker Punch?

Well, it's significant. It's a role that I really love but it's a really hard one to... She's a really interesting character.

It seems there's been a trend with this type of film: It gets a certain segment of the population excited, but they haven't been doing that well at the box-office. Kick-Ass is a good example. How can Sucker Punch break that trend?

Well, I think what's cool about this is, first of all, a completely original idea. So there's something really exciting about the fact that it feels like it's from a comic book but it actually isn't. There's not really a reference point for it in a really cool way. First of all, the female aspect of it, which is that it's got all of these sorts of kick-ass and beautiful and smart women in it, is unique. And, secondly, for example, with Watchmen, that was an interesting conundrum because who knew the graphic novel loved the movie because it could not have been more [faithful] to it. But people who didn't know it were expecting Superman or Batman and then were like, "What is this movie?"

I can't even give you a good answer on what will make this one different other than it's going to be a really interesting movie and I don't think there's going to have been anything like it. And I don't think that it will even feel comparable to other comic book movies. So hopefully it will just feel like it's just a really cool movie on its own that people will want to go see. But I know what you mean. That's where my expertise stops in the marketing of things.

It's interesting what you said about Watchmen. I agree about those two segments, but there also seems to be a segment that did like the comic but also wanted the story to be updated to something more contemporary than the Cold War. Looking back now, could that have even worked?

Yeah, I think that there wasn't even sort of a question because it was so organically set in the '80s, in that time, where I think you would have been lost. "What if Nixon had a fourth term?" There were so many things that seemed -- and I know that they considered it -- if you were to update it, it would just sort of lose the mindset from which that came. And! I think it was also kind of... For me it was interesting, because I actually felt like, "Oh my God, not that much has changed." Yes, we may not be thinking of nuclear war in the same way, but we still have weapons of mass destruction. We still have a lot of these same issues. So I actually found it more like, "Oh, look what we are doing, it's so much of the same stuff."

I apologize in advance, and I know it was a long time ago, but I have to ask you: was being on the set of ALF as bad as I've heard?

[Laughs] I had a great time on ALF!

I sense sarcasm.

I was being sarcastic, but the truth of the matter is, and I hate to say [in an Brooklyn accent] that was so long ago, I barely rememba' [Laughs]. All I know is that I was so happy to have that job as a guest star on ALF -- along with my guest starring on Webster. And it was literally one of -- I can honestly say -- one of my second or third jobs. And I think I would have loved anything. I don't think I would be a good person to speak about the set environment at that point. [Laughs]

I always hear those rumors, and you're the first person I've ever interviewed who had ever been on ALF.

And I feel like I'm disappointing you! I know, I've heard that, too.

Well, we can all go back to thinking it was a harmonious set.

Exactly -- just think lovely things about the set of ALF. I think that would have made your life better.

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