When Watchmen showed footage to the fans at San Diego Comic Con, the actors got to see it for the first time. Carla Gugino had a visceral reaction to her image as Silk Spectre on screen.
Carla Gugino is Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre
"We were so blown away," said Gugino. "Everyone sort of had a really kind of oddly emotional reaction to it. Even more so than the image of Dan when he's there and takes off his glasses, everything, and the kiss with the explosion. It's, first of all, so obviously images from the graphic novel but they're just incredible, visceral, primal kind of images. It's not an intellectual experience."
Such scenes only come to life after post production. Other scenes could be felt on the day of shooting. "I did Sin City which was almost exclusively green screen. I was saying, 'Are we going to do a lot of green screen?' I was curious because he created such an amazing world in 300. And he was like, 'No, with this one, it has to be the tactile 1980s grimy New York, human flesh.' So there were a few things but I remember even on the New York streets, I think there was one wall of green screen that will be in the distance."
Carla Gugino as the original Silk Spectre
With The Dark Knight taking comic book movies to a new level, Watchmen looks to continue that trajectory. "I think they'll continue to reinvent themselves just because I think as life moves on, we need to find new ways to stimulate ourselves and our minds and everything."
Watchmen was 20 years in the making and Gugino thinks it took that long to assemble the right team. "I do think it's much easier to make a great movie out of an okay book or an okay piece of source material because you can improve things and you can take the great ideas. But when you have an amazing graphic novel like this, it's so hard and it's a huge challenge obviously to do it right. I think the team that came together for this took 20 years to come together and I think that it is the right group of people, Zack at the helm and who cast actors, who kind of disappear or morph into these characters. It's much less about who's in the movie or who's directing it as much as here we are, let's present this story as sort of realized as we can possibly be and as authentic as we can be."
Watchmen opens to theaters March 6th, 2009.
For the poster, stills and more info on the film, go to the Watchmen
Movie Page.
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