After three decades in Hollywood,Carla Guginohas been in nearly everything—theSpy Kidsmovies, a Bon Jovi video, a BBC adaptation ofThe Buccaneersand the disaster flickSan Andreas, to start. But strangers still stop her on the street to talk about her early turn as poor little rich girl Chica Barnfell in the 1989 cult classicTroop Beverly Hills.
The Florida-born, California-raised actress admits that she did one thing for that particular role that she’s never done again.
“It was the only role that I ever lied about my age to get!” she recalls with a laugh. “It was before IMDb existed, I was 16 and I said I was 14 to get the job. After I got the job and when we were deep into filming, I said to the director [Jeff Kanew] one day, ‘Just so you know, I am actually 16, but I told you I was 14 to get the job.’ He said, ‘Had I known you were 16, I wouldn’t have hired you!’ So my lying was sadly confirmed as the right choice in that moment.”
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“I was thinking about things that have changed in terms of my interests from the beginning of my career to now, and one of the constants has been I’ve never really been interested in being known as a brand or known as a particular character more than another,” she says. “I’ve always gravitated towards the ability to be able to be transformational as an actor.”
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“I love the idea of playing a woman who is to some extent, unreadable, or misperceived, thought to be one thing and my job is not to reveal who she is,” she says.
“I genuinely love his work, and obviously we have a great level of trust with each other,” she says. “It’s nice to be able to do what you love and also see the person you know really well. I don’t take it for granted.”
source: people.com
