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 Eva Mendes
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime Eva Mendes is inarguably one of the most strikingly beautiful women in the world. Her face has graced fashion and beauty product lines worldwide for Revlon and Calvin Klein and her body has been graced in the flesh artfully for magazines ranging from Maxim to Flaunt to Italian Vogue to even the notorious anti-fur ads of PETA. But Mendes has managed to buck the potential stereotype of the shallow supermodel actress. She has garnered roles in a diverse array of films ranging from Training Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, Ghost Rider, and We Own The Night. Now Eva’s latest role is in a new film remake of Claire Boothe Luce’s play The Women, which she joins an all-star cast of female talent with notables such as Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, and Jada Pinkett Smith. We first asked the now 34 year old actress how it felt being part of such a female-heavy cast in what has traditionally been a male-dominated industry. “It was kind of surreal,” Eva recalls, “When you see it, it’s surreal, but because our experience was we had so many men on set, they just weren’t in front of the camera. We had a cute assistant director or a really cute camera guy or the teamsters. There’s plenty of cute boys around. there were plenty of men who were taking care of us in different ways and they were definitely around, yeah. There were strict guidelines, though.”I couldn’t survive if it was just all girls.” We asked Mendes to describe for us what to expect in an environment chock-full of female performers. “Catfights,” Eva jokes, “Debi [Mazar] and I got into a brawl on the first day and then, we were good. Yeah, that’s what it took to be really good friends.” However, Eva is quick to note that any potential tension long dissipated when director/screenwriter Diane English got her and the other noted actresses to bond together before filming was to start. “About a month before the movie, Diane English invited us, some of us, to go to her house and rehearse for four days,” Mendes recounts, “And I thought, are you sure? I just wasn’t sure about it. And then, I went and happily, I mean, I really had a great time bonding with these women. It was me, Meg, Annette, Jada, and Debra.” “The thing was it actually cut to me crying in the evening, because it was like camp,” she adds, “It was like a quick bond and I think it was really great for Diane English to do that because whether or not I’m supposed to be the girl friend in the movie, with the glam or not, we still need chemistry. And I think I really made it easy for them to love to hate me, to add that little love/hate thing to me in the movie.” The mostly female environment also did not prevent Eva from feeling slight embarrassment at doing a particularly risqué scene in the film. “I remember the day ... |
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