From there, Nora Dominick requested Carla Gugino how she bought concerned with the undertaking regardless of her younger age — at which level Gugino revealed that she was by no means even on any of the unique casting lists for Ingrid. In accordance with the actress, all of it got here right down to a gathering she had with Robert Rodriguez after the movie’s manufacturing had already started; Gugino refers to a “longer story” earlier than giving Dominick the apparently abbreviated model.
“I used to be sitting with [director and writer] Robert Rodriguez; they’d already been taking pictures for 2 weeks,” Gugino recalled. “He was like, ‘I really feel like I am in search of a mom for my youngsters.’ We had been speaking about it, and I had auditioned for him and he stated, ‘I feel if we do our job proper, nobody will ever query it.’ And it is so humorous such as you stated, no one did,” she stated on to Dominick.
Not solely that, however Gugino revealed that she and her onscreen husband Antonio Banderas knew one another, which helped create plausible chemistry as soon as she was forged: “Antonio Banderas and I had labored collectively on a film known as ‘Miami Rhapsody’ that David Frankel directed, so we additionally had a little bit little bit of a historical past, which was very nice to come back into it that method.”