You know Carla Gugino, the most iconic MILF in existence — Ingrid Cortez from the Spy Kids series.
For Spy Kids' 20th anniversary, the actor opened up to Variety about playing a motherly figure at just 28 years old.
"What’s particularly strange about the Spy Kids of it all is I was so young when I did it," Gugino told the magazine. "I was at least 10 years too young for the role because I was supposed to have been a spy for 10 years, then had two children who were now 10 and 12. I was 28 years old."
"But [director Robert Rodriguez] kind of said, ‘My mom had 10 kids and if we play this right, no one will ever question it,'" she continued. "I think it only hurt me a little because people did think I was older than I was for a period of time."
And I wasn't the only one who was stunned by this revelation.
…28??? I still relate more to the preteen kids in the movie 😭 https://t.co/C4zkpf34CJ
Honestly, I believe it...
she originally auditioned for the role of one of the kids but was told she was too young https://t.co/Km6bfNbVS0
Is Hollywood...okay?
Reminder Jenifer Lewis was 39 playing the mother of a 33 year old Whitney Houston in The Preacher’s Wife. https://t.co/VzeX5KXAwr
FYI, the Gossip Girl reboot features Thomas Doherty — who is 26 — playing a student, and Tavi Gevinson — who is 25 — playing a teacher.
I, too, would like to retire at the near-deathbed age of 28.
28 is an excellent retirement age. https://t.co/jcazRH1lJi
A very important question was posited here.
Ok ok ok ok ok ok I have HOW many years till I enter my MILF stage’#?!!!! https://t.co/5ZFG3yl4Jb
This pretty much sums it up.
i'm 28 so in hollywood can play a high school student now but in two years i can only play a very tired mom of a 12-year-old
However, Carla said she would "never have given up that experience." "It was such an extraordinary time. It was just this little tiny movie we made alone in Austin and it became a phenomenon that continues," she shared.
