Carla Gugino stays in touch with Alan Cumming and other “spy children” costs (exclusive)

• Actress Carla Gugino tells people she still keeps in touch with some of her Spy children costs, including “dear friend” Alan Cumming
• “It was such a beautiful experience for all of us, so it’s crazy that it’s been so long,” says Gugino about the franchise, who debuted in 2001
• Gugino also reflects on how the film series has “taken on his own life”

Twenty -four years after the premiere of the hit film series Spy childrenThe Carla Gugino Reminds of the many friendships she did through the experience.

At the New York City premiere of its latest film The friend On March 24, Gugino told people that she still keeps in touch with some of her Spy children costumes.

“Antonio (flags)The Alan Cummingwho is a dear, dear friend, Tony Shalhoub“Says Gugino.” It is such an amazing group of actors. I was also only in Austin, Texas, for some movie prizes and I saw (Spy children director) Robert RodriguezAnd he’s just a total gem. ”

In the movies, Gugino Secret Spy Mother plays Ingrid Cortez along with Banderas as her husband Gregorio Cortez and Darylsabara and Alexa Penavega Like her child June and Carmen.

“It was such a beautiful experience for all of us, so it’s crazy that it’s been so long,” Gugino says Spy children Franchise, which debuted in 2001, and was followed by two sequels in 2002 and 2003. Two additional films were released in 2011 and 2023, with mostly new role members.

Gugino recalled how she apparently was a dissatisfaction with the role of Ingrid when filming began. “I was 27 years old when I did that role so I was just too young to play the role because I would have been a spy for ten years and then I had two children, who were like 9 and 11,” she explains. “Robert looked at me and where, ‘you do your job and no one will notice.’ ”

Addressing Spy children“Impact, Gugino tells people that she knows the series” continues generationally “, and that it is” one of the timeless movies that I really appreciate – it has taken its own life. ”

Gugino’s latest project The friend sees her in a supportive role alongside Naomi Watts In a story of friendship and sorrow that Watts character assumes one 150 LB. Great Dane After the death of its owners, played by Bill Murray.

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Gugino tells people that she has known Watts, 56, for a long time but never had a chance to work with her before.

“She actually called me and said,“ Hi, do you want to come and play for a week on this movie? “” The actress remembers. “I came in and only came in for a few days to film, so it was just really nice to have the story we have together.”

As the film develops, Gugino and Watt’s characters, who had lost contact with each other, come together according to Murray’s character. “This is this moment after his death where they are actually reuniting and finding their friendship again,” Gugino notes. “I thought it was really beautifully done.”

Gugino also shared what it was like to work with the film’s four -legged star, bing.

“Bing is bigger than any of us, and just a fantastic dog and such a total professional, so it was a fantastic experience around,” she says.