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Carlos and Alexa PenaVega Reveal New Year's Resolutions
Oh, burn.
While Spy Kids remains a beloved portion of galore people's childhoods, the movie has not recovered fans successful prima Alexa PenaVega's children. In fact, they privation the actress, who played Carmen Cortez successful the movie series, had starred successful a antithetic kids' action movie—The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl.
"Everybody thinks I was Lavagirl. I was not Lavagirl, but my kids only watch Sharkboy and Lavagirl," the histrion told E! News astatine the Hallmark Channel's Countdown to Christmas Celebration astatine Radio City Music Hall successful New York City Oct. 20. "They don't similar Spy Kids."
Her husband, Carlos PenaVega—with whom she shares sons Ocean, 5, and Kingston, 3, and girl Rio, 17 months—added, "And we're like, 'But that's not Mommy."
Alexa said, "Kingston keeps telling maine that I should person been Lavagirl," adding, "I emotion Taylor, truthful I virtually substance her that each the time."
(Taylor Dooley plays the pistillate pb successful the 2005 film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, directed by Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez.)
But that doesn't halt her children from expressing their casting opinions. "Kingston keeps telling maine that I should person been Lavagirl," Alexa shared. "I emotion Taylor, truthful I virtually substance her that each the time. I'm like, 'Girl, my kids similar you amended than they similar me, and I don't cognize what to bash astir it!'"
Alexa starred alongside Daryl Sabara—who played her character's younger brother, Juni—in each four Spy Kids movies, betwixt 2001 and 2011.
And since leaving their spy days down them, Alexa and Daryl, who is married to singer Meghan Trainor and shares a lad with her, have remained close. In fact, the histrion shared it hadn't been agelong since the movie siblings past reunited astatine all.
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"We saw my member today, Daryl," Alexa told E! News. "We were with him, and present helium has a baby. So possibly his babe volition similar Spy Kids."
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