Reader response to yesterday’s Private Studio editorial of Carla Gugino, lensed by John Russo for Esquire Mexido January 2011 issue is superb. The soon 40-year-old actress is hardly a toothpick, and readers love her.

Carla Gugino will soon appear in ‘Sucker Punch’ along with Jamie Chung, featured in this month’s Complex Magazine.

Gugino and Chung are joined by Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, and Vanessa Hudgens in an all-female credited cast. John Hamm appears in a lesser role in the story of a young girl who is institutionalized by her wicked stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the facility.

‘Sucker Punch’ was written by Zack Snyder and Steve Shibuya. Snyder directs, as he did in ‘The Watchmen’, which was just too violent for Anne in parts. An exception to her feelings about the movie was loving Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter, a truly powerful woman.

Gugino talked about her new role in ‘Sucker Punch’ and Zack Snyder’s desire to have a fully empowered female cast.

“Zack loves women in the best way, and I think his intention from the very start was that he wanted to do a movie where these women are fully empowered,” Gugino said last week during an interview in Los Angeles, Calif. “He also hired the same amazing Navy SEAL trainers that he got for all of the guys on ‘300,’ and [although] my character sort of had different requirements, the girls were up there training for a full three months. There was no way they weren’t going to be empowered by the time they started shooting.”