Spy Kids’ Alexa PenaVega, Daryl Sabara Share Character Futures

“I’ve sat down with my 5-year-old and we’ve watched the first three movies and it’s fun to watch him watch it as like, a movie goer,” Sabara shared. “For me, I’m just watching memories on a screen. Like, I’m not watching a movie I’m just watching playback.”

While Sabara’s son Riley hasn’t quite connected the dots that he’s watching his dad on the silver screen, PenaVega shared that her and husband Carlos PenaVega’s 9-year-old son Ocean has recently embraced her fame. 

“I remember showing it to him years back and he was not interested at all,” PenaVega—also mom to Kingston, 6, and Rio, 4 with her husband of 12 years—recalled. “He was a big Sharkboy and Lava Girl fan. I was like, ‘What the heck dude!’ It was total betrayal.”

But years later, PenaVega shared that her 9-year-old thinks the movies are “so cool.”

“I never really thought he thought anything of it,” she admitted. “I just thought like I just thought he was like, ‘Oh, this is cool.’ Until we were all on an airplane and I watch him grab the shirt of the guy next to him and he goes ‘Hey mister,’ and the guy goes ‘Yeah? I’m listening.’ And he goes, ‘you see my mom back there? She’s in Spy Kids. And that’s my dad, he’s in Big Time Rush. I’m like, ‘What are you doing!’”

For a look back at all the Spy Kids characters and where they are now, keep reading…