Carla Gugino News

Not too familiar with birthday girl Carla Gugino? You will be soon.

The actress, who starred on HBO's Entourage as the only agent not named Ari Gold that Vince Chase has ever known, has a pair of huge movies coming out.

First, she stars alongside Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Righteous Kill. Then, in March 2009, look for Gugino as Sally Jupiter in Watchmen.

Here are a pair of other movies/role on Carla Gugino's resume:

• Night at the Museum: Rebecca
• Sin City: Lucille

How many comic book movies are bold enough to show a rape scene?

None, so far. But that will change when Watchment comes out in the spring of 2009. The film will keep a violent scene of sexual assault from the comic intact, co-star Carla Gugino - who played Sally Jupiter in the film - told MTV News.

“It was really brutal. It was brutal to shoot,” Gugino said of the scene, in which The Comedian (played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan) attacks an young Sally, who only manages to avoid getting raped by the timely intervention of fellow mask Hooded Justice.

Sally Jupiter is confroned by The Comedian in Watchmen.

“That was one of the things [director] Zack [Snyder] said to me from the start: ‘I really want this to be incredibly brutal. It’s not a turn-on kind of story. It’s bad," Gugina said. "It’s important that we did that. I think hopefully it will be really powerful.”

As Watchmen prides itself on, this is certainly another example of it being anything but an ordinary comic book movie.

Carla Gugino recently talked with MTV about her role in Zack Snyder's highly-anticipated Watchmen movie:

"It was really one of the craziest, most fun roles I've ever gotten to play," the actress said. "I start at 25 years old in the 1940s, and I age to 67 years old with full prosthetics in the 1980s. [Sally] is a larger-than-life character. She's a costumed crime fighter, but her idea of a costume is very Bettie Page-meets-[Alberto] Vargas.

The movie doesn't come out until March 2009. But read more of Gugino's take on it now.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Carla Gugino has been cast as the female lead in Righteous Kill, the movie every Al Pacino and Robert De Niro fan absolutely cannot wait for.

The article says Guino will play "a crime-scene investigator with a dark personal life who enters into a relationship with De Niro's character."

Righteous Kill is written by Russell Gewirtz, and you can take a look at an early teaser poster here. The cast already includes De Niro, Pacino and 50 Cent, pictured in a scene together below. The film is scheduled for a 2008 release.