When you’re reading a script, it doesn’t really matter who wrote. I’m always amazed when I open one of his scripts. GUGINO: Well, I was an admirer of him, as a writer, before we were ever together, so it was a very conscious decision to choose to work together. What do you enjoy about working and collaborating with him, and playing these women that he creates and writes for you? Q: You’ve worked with Sebastian Gutierrez on a few different projects, for a number of years now. So, it was genuinely challenging and scary. She doesn’t spend any time thinking about that, but I’m in characters that are much more living in their emotional life. Realizing that Jett keeps her own counsel, and she doesn’t care what other people think about her. There are these characters that you’re so compelled by, even if you don’t know whether you like them yet. I started watching Lee Marvin in Point Blank, and looked at Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales and Toshirô Mifune. Very rarely, have I been asked to just exist in something, in that way. Jett’s just onto the next.” And as he was giving me this direction, I realized that all of my strong suits that I had been asked to do were not what was required for this, and in fact, it was the absolute opposite. No, you’re caring too much about that other person. But as Sebastian was directing me, he kept saying, “I’m seeing too much empathy. You’re told so often, “Well, the audience has to fall in love with you,” while the male characters are allowed to just exist. But the thing that was so challenging was that, in the 30-plus years that I’ve been acting, as an actress, you’re often asked, or at least I’ve been, to bring a depth of emotion and a humanity to make a character relatable and to make somebody fall in love you. I thought it would be challenging because I was also going to be producing, but that was actually not an issue, at all, other than maybe a lack of sleep.
GUGINO: Well, I’ll tell you, this role was incredibly challenging for me, and in ways that I hadn’t expected. What were the things about Jett that scared you, and how did you feel most challenged by her?
Q: A lot of actors often talk about wanting to find roles that challenge and scare them.
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