Ask a dozen film critics to each make a list of the most underappreciated actresses working in Hollywood today, and the name "Carla Gugino" is likely to appear more than once -- but her turn as the Silk Spectre in Zack Snyder's Watchmen just might help her grab that elusive spotlight.

Gugino tells MTV Movies that what the role might occasionally lack in wardrobe, it more than makes up for in range:

"I start at 25 years old in the 1940s, and I age to 67 years old with full prosthetics in the 1980s...I kick a small amount of ass. I don't kick as much ass as some people do in the movie, however. But I get to play an old lady, which was just, for me, the most fascinating thing. To start as this young crime fighter and end up an alcoholic woman in her late 60s was for me enough of a challenge; let's put it that way."

Gugino also let a few details slip about Watchmen's opening credits sequence, which she describes as "extraordinary" and "a very, very special thing that wasn't scripted, that will be really empowering." From the article:

In those opening credits, Snyder is mixing CGI and real-life footage to establish the close-but-not-quite reality of a "Watchmen" world that mirrors our own. "It incorporates real history and the fictitious world of Watchmen, and so it's very cool," Gugino explained. "We meet Nixon and all sorts of people."

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Source: MTV Movies