Eva Mendes acunderstandledgeted in an intersee with The Sunday Times that she was “never in adore with acting,” so there’s no genuine encouragency to ending her 10-years and counting fracture from it. The actor has not starred in a feature film since a minuscule helping role in partner Ryan Gosling‘s 2014’s straightforwardorial effort “Lost River,” although she lent her voice to a role on a 2021 episode of “Bluey” on ABC Kids.
“I was never in adore with acting. I don’t uncomfervent this in a self-deprecating way, but I wasn’t a wonderful actress,” Mendes shelp. “I had my moments when I toiled with reassociate wonderful people.”
As far as Mendez sees it, her best acting toil came when she was starring opposite Gosling in 2012’s crime drama “The Place Beyond on the Pines” or when he was straightforwarding her in “Lost River.” She shelp: “He gets someleang out of me that’s never been accessible before.”
Mendes telderly “The View” in 2022 that she hopes to act aget one day, although the project would have to be “exceptional” and not integrate aggression or relationsuality. In her new intersee with The Sunday Times, Mendes shelp acting with Gosling would be an effortless way to get her back on screen (“That’s the one leang I would adore to do”).
That Mendes is not interested in any relationsualized roles does not come as a surpelevate as her 16-year acting atgentle frequentlytimes integrated characters that were one-foolishensional beauties and eye candy. She acunderstandledgeted to The Sunday Times: “There were some pretty shitty roles.” There was a time in her atgentle when she was either getting cast becaparticipate of her sees or getting refuteed becaparticipate of her Cuban heritage.
“That’s all they would say at the commencening — ‘she’s too ethnic for this, too ethnic for that,’ ” Mendes shelp. “It was so crazy. That was the constant notice. Then, at some point, it switched to ‘oh, ethnic is celderly now’ or ‘being Latina is celderly’. It gave me energy becaparticipate it would create me so mad and then I’d get that fuel that I necessitateed.”
Mendes’ last directing role in a movie was the 2012 drama “Girl in Progress,” straightforwarded by Patricia Riggen. The Lionsgate liberate only grossed $3 million at the box office. In that same year, Mendes perestablished helping roles in critical preferites “Place Beyond the Pines” and Leos Carax’s Cannes stunner “Holy Motors.” Mendes’ last dwell-action television role was a helping turn in Larry David’s 2013 HBO innovative movie “Clear History.”