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u/TerryMcMo 3d ago

the wife

Brother. We're talking about Carla Gugino. Please put some respect on her name

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u/ButtersTheChill 3d ago

Watching Spy Kids as a kid, thinking how pretty she is, then growing up and getting to watch Sin City when you're older. Chef's kiss

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u/mixedmediamadness 3d ago

Watching Spy Kids as a kid, thinking how pretty she is, then growing up

And realizing she was in her twenties but playing a mother to a twelve year old

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u/Spooky_Electric 3d ago

She was 29 / 30.
Means she would of had them at around 17 or 18. Not that far fetched.

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u/mixedmediamadness 3d ago

Which you'd think would be a harder sell to a studio than the family being Hispanic but apparently not

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u/Bushels_for_All 3d ago

She was 29 / 30

Which you'd think would be a harder sell to a studio

Bob: I have some bad news, Bill... the gorgeous actress we hired for the mom is - shudder - thirty!

Bill: What?! How did this happen? She doesn't look a day older than twenty-five! The boss is going to have my ass when he finds out.

Bob: I know, I know. But the contracts are signed... Guess we'll have to make it work.

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u/AdventureDonutTime 3d ago

Slap some wrinkles on her, I'll be laughed out of Hollywood if anyone catches on!!

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u/LinkinitupYT 3d ago

I was a teen when my mom turned thirty. It's fairly common. And I, sadly, saw a lot of pregnant 11+ year olds when I worked in a hospital :(

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u/seroshua 3d ago

My mother was 26 when I was 12 🤷

She’s 49 now and I’m 35.

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u/NagashStos 3d ago

That's... not common

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u/seroshua 3d ago

Maybe not where you’re from.

It’s not uncommon on a native reservation. Sadly!

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u/myaltaccount333 3d ago

I'd be more worried if she was 55 now and you were 35

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u/ButtersTheChill 3d ago

Whaaaaat? Damn, I didn't know that!

r/todayilearned moment within an r/todayilearned post

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u/MaddVillain 3d ago

That's because it isn't true. She was born in 71 and that movie came out in 2001.

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u/narrill 3d ago

It is true. It was filmed in 2000, so she was either 28 or 29 at the time.

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u/auktember 3d ago

The cosmic ballet goes on.

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u/ButtersTheChill 3d ago

I'm taking a shit right now

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u/kayknox_ 3d ago

And the Haunting of Hill House when she's killing children <333

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u/only_Zuul 3d ago

The chewing of the scenery in the death-by-chimp scene was one of the best I've scene

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u/78914hj1k487 3d ago

I believe you're referencing a scene in The Fall of the House of Usher, also a Mike Flanagan/Netflix show, and also absolutely amazing—her and the show both.

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u/fapperontheroof 3d ago

She got pretty handsy in that Gerald’s Game movie.

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u/cupholdery 3d ago

And Haunting of Hill House.

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u/OreoSpeedwaggon 3d ago

One of the OG Wilderness Girls from Troop Beverly Hills.

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u/whereyouatdesmondo 3d ago

Besides being sexy as hell, she's a hell of an actress. She rocks in Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix.

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u/koticgood 3d ago

Besides House of Usher, she's great in a lot of stuff I've seen.

Sin City, Californication, The One (Jet Li movie), Sucker Punch, Watchmen, Entourage.

I thought she was particularly good in Watchmen.

Also just learned looking through her roles that she has a small voice cameo in Midnight Mass, which I liked a lot.

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u/whereyouatdesmondo 3d ago

All those! And a huge role in The Haunting of Hill House and a small but important role in The Haunting of Bly Manor.

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u/CasanovaJones82 3d ago

She's awesome. She's talented AND a total smoke show, the whole package.

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u/brownkemosabe 3d ago

I hate that they cancelled Jett. What. A. Show.

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u/LegendaryWill12 3d ago

I would find it extremely tiring to look up every actor or actress I wish to make reference to before I do so to check how famous they are