Carla Gugino Says Stephen King's GERALD'S GAME Is "One of the Most Fulfilling Things I’ve Done"
Carla Gugino has starred in a ton of film throughout her career, and she's had some pretty incredible roles. According to her, her part in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's Gerald's Game is her most fulfilling role yet.
The story is a suspense thriller in which Gugino plays a woman who is left handcuffed to a bed in an isolated cabin after her husband dies abruptly during sex play. As she is trapped alone and trying to escape, "painful memories from her childhood bedevil her. Her only company is a hungry stray dog and the voices that populate her mind. As night comes, she is unsure whether it is her imagination or if she has another companion: someone watching her from the corner of her dark bedroom."
This is a crazy good story, and it's going to make for a great movie. During an interview with Den of Geek, Gugino talked about her role in the film:
“It was one of the hardest, most challenging shoots I've ever done, which is saying a lot. I've definitely chosen some material that's been really challenging. We shot six weeks in Alabama. I think Mike is absolutely the man for the job.
“It's one of the most fulfilling things I've done. I love this woman… you're dealing with something that has elements of horror, but also is really more of a thriller, in the vain of a Misery. And she is also dealing with this childhood sexual trauma with her father, and those are all tricky tones to find together.”
She went on to praise the script of the film, which was written by director Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard. She went on to talk about some slight changes he made to the story to make the story better for film:
“(Flanagan) has also reworked things to where her personality does split, but it's in a different way than that is in the novel. I think it might end up being more clear for a film.”
The actress then revealed that the movie was shot chronologically, which helped her in the process of the mental disintegration of her character.
“Every step of the way, one of the things (Flanagan) said to me, which directors very rarely say, was, ‘I want you to take ownership over this, this is as much yours as it is mine’…I'm really excited about it.”
The film also stars Bruce Greenwood as Gugino's husband. Gerald's Game will premiere on Netflix, but there's no release date for it yet.