Gugino, who starred in theater productions of “The Road to Mecca” in 2011, and “Desire Under the Elms” in 2009, would like to do more theater. While they’re not married, the actress considers herself the stepmother of his 21- and 23-year-old children. More than 30 years later, Gugino is as passionate about acting as she ever was. Her 20-year relationship with Sebastian Gutierrez has never been prone to drama. “I was such a California crunchy granola kid and New York terrified me.” Some instrumental advice from her aunt, former “Let’s Make a Deal” model Carol Merrill, put her on the right course: acting classes and emancipation at age 16 “just so my parents wouldn’t have to come to the set all the time.” Gugino enrolled in the John Robert Powers modeling school in La Jolla and was recruited by Elle Petite in Manhattan. “I lived in Sarasota, then California, then moved back to Florida and then back to California,” she said. That peripatetic gypsy lifestyle was in contrast to her father’s Florida home, which had a pool and tennis court. The following year, she moved with her mother to Paradise, Calif., where they lived in a teepee. “My mom would say, ‘Go play.’”īorn in Sarasota, Fla., Gugino had kidney surgery when she was four years old. A straight-A student, “I was always looking for order,” she said. ![]() In a movie like this, you want to jump off a cliff and embarrass yourself.”īy her own account, Gugino was controlling as a child and young adult. “I love doing big movies and telling a story on a larger scale, but there’s something very special about a process like this and working with someone who’s an auteur,” Gugino said. “Bart creates a very safe place for you to emotionally jump off a cliff. “When you have an alcoholic or addict, everyone is servicing the sick person so all of the family dynamics are built around that dysfunction,” Gugino said, adding that the line that crystalized Jenny is when she quotes her grandmother to a drunken Lee: “I might not know when I’ve had enough, but I always know when I’ve had too much.” Jenny’s instinct to shield Anthony becomes fiercer as Lee’s problems mount. “A boy becomes a man and becomes sexualized. The complication of where the line is drawn is muddy.” “I asked Bart if the scene in the bathroom should have a slight sexual connotation,” Gugino said. For a second, you wonder if the unthinkable will happen. Jenny practically bursts into the bathroom, she dabs Anthony’s forehead, where an object hurled by Lee has left a cut. They’re a team in a way.”Īn awkward moment Gugino decided to heighten is a bathroom scene, where Anthony wraps a towel around his torso after showering. She has an interesting dynamic with her son. “The mother-son relationship is so powerful. “If there’s danger, a mother’s first instinct is to protect the home,” Gugino said. Jenny sacrifices for the family - one night, it’s sushi, and then, it’s revealed that she may have given up a career to keep the family financially sound. ![]() One of the most highly anticipated films at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, the low-budget independent film’s vérité quality is heightened by scenes shot at the famous Sixth Avenue pick-up courts in Greenwich Village and a gymnasium where you can almost feel the sticky bleachers and smell the sweat wafting through the air. Lee is a professor at a city college, Jenny sells expensive clothing at Jeffrey New York, and Anthony has a girlfriend and other friends. On the surface, the Keller family seems fine. I was intrigued by a smart, accomplished woman who’s complicit, and who sometimes is weak and other times is strong.” “I was taken with the script’s authenticity of how these human beings were drawn. ![]() “The people felt very real and resonated with me,” Gugino said. Dad Lee (Michael Shannon) spirals deeper into a dangerous gambling addiction, placing increasingly larger wagers, even on his son’s games.
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