Eva Longoria | Not Skinny But Not Fat

okay you guys today's exciting oh my God I'm gonna say something so lame we have chingona did I say good I love it Eva Longoria oh my God I love Spanish okay okay what do you mean yeah right now you're living in Mexico yeah I didn't know that I live between Mexico City and L.A oh wow for how long has that been the past five years I mean since my son was born yeah we spent more time in Mexico City the whole covid was we were in Mexico wow yeah what's that like the whole Kobe did I sound old the whole Kobe the whole coven yeah oh it's amazing Mexico City's amazing one of the most beautiful cities in the world uh to such a food destination now and and then you pop over everywhere like Oaxaca is pretty fun Mary does fun um I did searching for Mexico this show about food and yeah so we got to pop so I was in Mexico for like shooting for five months there and it was just so great I love Mexico but yeah I didn't grow up speaking Spanish but now I speak Spanish yeah so you didn't grow up speaking Spanish your parents but are like Mexican Americans too yeah yeah no they spoke Spanish to each other but they didn't teach us Spanish huh interesting yeah are you like do you ask them like were you like why didn't you talk oh I did I get mad at them all the time I know why because you know that time still there's a big push for assimilation for kids and there's a big like by the school system by Society of like don't let them have an accent and don't let them be other don't let them speak any other language and I think uh that's how you know it's an actor in the house is right you know what I'm allergic to perfume oh no I don't wear perfume and I put perfume on today going I'm gonna put nope this is why do you see my eyes I sound stuffy my eyes are watering I'm sorry you know what's so funny I went to college and I did like a marketing major I minored in theater just because I liked it yeah and it was like going from the regular classes with like you know normal people yeah where I did the marketing and whatever intro to mass media and then you go to the acting classes and that's how they sneeze yeah that's the difference between someone who's the performer you know my husband is so embarrassed when I sneeze on the street he's like oh my gosh less attention from people I can't I I held if I do a quiet sneeze I literally a rib will pop out I go I can't I've gotta let it out why would I like make life harder okay so Mexico City I know you did the show yeah all that like food you just wanted to eat your way through Mexico yeah Stanley Tucci called me because he had searching for Italy right yeah and he called me and he's like hey we want to do a spin-off uh what do you think we want to you know we think you're a foodie you're a cook and um I was like you got to do Mexico and so I'm the one that pitched him on the country and uh he was like that's a great idea and then they researched it and they're like yeah I mean it's a jewel of a Cuisine it's one of the only what it is only one of two Cuisines protected by UNESCO as a cultural treasure and that's French cuisine and Mexican the only two Cuisines and what do you think about Mexican food here in America I love it yeah yeah well you know I'm Tex-Mex yeah and so I love text my husband hates Tex-Mex because he's a pure Mexican I'm Mexican-American uh so I love Tex-Mex and I also you know spending 20 years in California there's you know California Mexicans and but no you know it's the most popular uh cuisine in the United States and was it important for you to marry someone Mexican no no that happened by that happened by accident really yeah you know blind date situation yes yes my friend set us up and uh and I was like I'm not I don't I'm not interested in anybody right now and neither was Pepe Pepe was like Hey so we met yeah his name's Pepe yeah well his name is Jose Antonio but Jose in in Mexico the nickname is Pepe oh really we're learning so much today like William and Bill right gotcha okay anybody's name Jose is usually called Pepe really okay yeah um yeah but he um we both met and we were like hey hey that was it and then six months later we re-met and I was like who is that and my friend's like that's the guy I've been trying to get you to date and I was like I've never met this man in my life and he was like yes that's the guy I was like I don't remember so then we yeah that was 10 years ago wow yes but you know my my um well I always say my first husband no my second husband because I've been married this is my third husband clarify um but uh when I was married to Tony he was French so uh my second language is French I learned French and I was way more fluent in French than than Spanish that's wild and you know we we spend our summers in France and I we his whole family's French so I had to learn it and so when I learned Spanish Spanish is my third language and it was much easier like I was like oh okay I got it now wow I can't believe you called since your third I know isn't that crazy but it's only in the United States that like we teach our children like don't speak another language it's like when is monolingualism better than bilingual like when is one better than two yeah it's weird we're the only country that promotes monolingualism do you feel like they promote that here though yes really God if you speak Spanish we've been told so many times I remember actually I think it was an Upstate New York I was somewhere my husband and I were speaking Spanish and somebody literally told us can you stop that yeah and I was like stop I'm sorry stop what and I was I didn't understand I was like oh my God it's crazy oh my God it's fun though because you can like talk [ __ ] about people without them understanding something yeah although a lot of people yeah with Spanish it's hard yeah a lot of my husband thinks that so he'll start saying something about somebody right in front of us in Spanish I'm like honey I think they understand what you're saying I know that's I speak Hebrew so it's easier oh that's not as many people know yeah but I'm always like how funny Would it be yeah or if I'll see like Israeli speaking Hebrew I'm like please talk [ __ ] about me so I can like catch you I'm Gonna Catch You okay so I just tease you coming on today by saying there is a flaming hot guest coming on today because your movie flaming hot which you directed yeah it's your directorial debut yeah I know and what a fun inspiring great movie I loved it so much yeah it's so good it's on Hulu you guys super easy and Disney plus and Disney plus you don't have to even go anywhere no sit in your home yeah watch the movie How do did you become attached to the project well I um I've been directing for 12 years this is my first feature film and I uh I love TV I love directing TV I love the media my television and my agent sent me the script and she's like you know you should take a look at this she's like I don't think you're gonna get it because so many directors were up for the job really you know established directors and everybody loved the story um and so she was but I think I don't know I think you should throw your hat in the ring and I was like okay so I read it and I was like oh my gosh I was blown away by his story because you've you saw the movie so it's not really about the hot Cheeto it's about this man's life right you know and it's really inspirational and moving and motivational and complex and so I read the script and I was like how did I not know this story he's Mexican-American I'm Mexican-American like if I don't know this story that means a lot of people don't know the story and then I became obsessed with like I'm the only one who can tell this story and uh went in and I was The Little Engine That Could in the director meetings because I was like I have to get this um and I won the audition to be a director yeah you got to go pitch your vision and really I didn't know that yeah and then you get a call back you know you go in they go great you make it to the next level you go in great maybe you know how to create that kind of a pitch or does someone No I um no that was my first film pitch no actually it was my second um but but I I I knew enough and I knew enough to surround myself with people smarter than me so I had my agents I had my graphic designer I edited a real I really did this all-encompass pitch about the vision that I knew this movie could be yeah and what it meant and I was like I don't think you guys understand what this would mean for us as a Latino Community but also it's such a universal theme right like anybody like you know you loved it and you're right white girl from New York right um okay yeah right because it's just inspiring it's yeah and it's a universal story of like rags to riches and perseverance and the underdog and and so that's why I I identified with it because I was like I am Richard Montanez I've been told no I've been told ideas don't come from people like you or no no you're a woman maybe you shouldn't do that job or that opportunity um so I really felt like I think a lot of people are gonna relate to his story or his journey that's so crazy that you you you saw the script you wanted to be part of it you auditioned you got it they believed in you and you did it and then I did it and then and you didn't put yourself in it though I just saw that you did and I was like no I didn't miss it where were you I was a secretary when Richard calls the CEO um and all the bosses are pissed off they go who let him let this go I'm not the first woman not the first guy but the second no the woman he goes get him on the phone and I go I don't know who that is and I'm trying to dial the phone number I cannot believe that I missed that how do you it's a blip it's oh it's like two seconds maybe one did you think about maybe being Jude no never really yeah and Richard Montanez originally the real Richard yeah why don't you be Judy you know like because I'm 112. oh my God but also I felt like uh it was my first feature and I really wanted to be behind behind the camera yeah 100 and I love directing and acting at the same same time I actually love directing what I'm in yeah because I'm just more efficient and it's just shorthand I can give myself notes in my head right but with this one I was like no I need 1 000 Focus behind the camera and Annie who plays uh our Judy Annie Gonzalez is brilliant she's so good she's brilliant and she's the heart of the movie and so I was like that's our Judy it was clear she was our Judy did you relate to there are a few scenes with the kids where they're like embarrassed about speaking Spanish yes they get bullied at school yeah for being Mexican did you find like did you relate to those yeah yeah that's happened to me many times when I was in third grade I um had to go to this gifted and talented school that was like across town not in my neighborhood so I had to get bus there and the first day I went on the bus I had a bean taco because we eat Bean tacos for breakfast every day um and everybody in my neighbor but when I got on the bus everybody had a Pop-Tart and I was like what is that oh that's so cool it had sprinkles on it I mean it looks so cool and they're like What's that and I was like it's a bean taco don't you guys eat these and and I remember a little girl on the bus going she's maxing and I was like what's like I had no idea yeah that I was different and then I was like is that a bad thing why is she saying it like that and uh and that's when I kind of realized oh oh so everybody's not Mexican [Laughter] and then I would go to Mexico like we would go all the time to we crossed the border we'd walk over you know because I'm from Texas we'd walk over the border and we'd have lunch we'd come back like it was a normal thing and when we'd come back we'd get in the line that you know was American citizen and they were like you just had to say American citizen they go great this was like they don't check a passport they nothing um and I thought that was a secret password so I thought why is it that long line over there why don't they know the secret password yeah it's American citizen guys just say it and my dad's like no no they're Mexican and I was like I know but we're Mexican my dad's like no we're American and every time I went to Mexico they would go oh the American and I was like no I'm am I not Mexican like I was confused so confused as a as a kid for sure because we were both yeah at the same time and uh and so it wasn't until like college where I really embraced how to navigate The Hyphen right like I'm 100 Mexican 100 American at the same time and I'm the most patriotic person you'll meet I'm a proud American I am like you know red white and blue um but I'm so proud of my Latino roots and my Mexican roots and our culture and our heritage and our traditions and our food and our language I find that you connected with him more as you got older yeah yeah always do you do you find that with you I think that getting older is just yeah better in that you yeah I think you you step back and go oh okay but again it's it's everybody forcing forcing all cultures that come uh to assimilate like you gotta you gotta be this one flavor yeah and that's like no right why why would I know you're very good about saying like Mexican-American yeah she's hyphenated um I want to talk about Richard matanias for a second yes yes um because we loved a true story obviously this is based on a true story but why is the way that it's written is like he claims he invented the hot Cheetos and then Frito-Lay is like we couldn't find it but we support we support him yeah so yeah and then Pepsi came out with like one thousand percent he is he is responsible oh Pepsi came out and said that are the success of flaming hot yeah for the success of flaming are they accrediting him with like well he's not the chemist right obviously and I feel like that's what people are like wait he's not the chemist no he didn't mix maltodextrin with God Knows Why yeah you know what I mean like no and we don't say that in the movie he came up his genius was marketing and going you're ignoring the Hispanic market and we put Chile on chips and we should why don't we try this thing so they already had this spice and development yeah but what they did was give him the opportunity to Market it yeah and so that's what where his genius uh really was was you know I know my community I know they'll love something like this and they were like great um but there's beautiful uh do you see Patty the secretary in the movie um that passes the call through you know it's a big moment in his life because a secretary could have been like no right I'm not passing you're the what I'm sorry you're the janitor yeah I was kind of surprised she passed the phone on too yeah true every time he does a TED talk or a motivational speech he credits Patty the secretary for passing the call to the CEO um because she knew Roger Enrico was like that he loved talking to the front line and Factory workers and so she's like oh he'll love to hear from you so Patty passed the call through so we had a Dallas screening and the real Patty was there and she came up on stage and she said I remember the day he called and pitched this idea to Mr Enrico she was Roger Enrico secretary till he died wow um and so her testimony is beautiful because she's like I remember he was like forceful but humble and he was uneducated but he was smart and he was passionate about what he was saying about his community and she's like I gotta pass this call she remembers the phone call she remembers passing she remembers all of it and she remembers the the journey that Enrico and Montanez Richard um went on in their lives like he she goes he loved he saw himself in Richard because Roger Enrico the CEO of PepsiCo uh was an Italian immigrant right so he identified with with Richard's um you know and his um Moxie I think okay why am I saying all these Hebrew words you know what I was talking in the movie Just because we've become such a greedy like nation and everything's about money yeah the whole time I was like is he getting a cut like what's you know what's he how's he knowing like what is he making from this and it's wild that it wasn't didn't seem to be about that in the movie it wasn't about getting his cut or getting copyright on the credit right or credit it was like he was doing this kind of for the factory to keep he wanted more shifts yeah like he literally was like one foot in front of the other he wanted you know to move up and what really happened which is in the movie um is Roger Rico sent out a video to he always send videos to the company in in one video he said I want I want everybody to think like a CEO this is your company too yeah and and that's when he was like oh okay so that means I can and people are like no not you others you know and he was like well why not me I could think like a CEO um but yeah it's that's why maybe people go you know did this really happen right watch the movie because then you'll go oh okay I got it I got it yeah does he you've spoken to him probably right Richard yeah did he kind of guide you on the on the film too oh yeah he did I mean all of this this is why the film is in is in his perspective it's in his voice yeah he really believes this is what unfolded and happened like he really didn't know what a boardroom looked like and those boardroom scenes where they're all talking like cholos he really was like he thought a boardroom was full of boards like he didn't understand like what are they doing there yeah um and so when we have all these fantasy sequences it's because it's I really wanted to show like his thought process like he was he couldn't read or write when he took the job like he couldn't fill out the application so why would he know how protocols yeah in a big company like that he didn't know there was you know research and development team that develops stuff and takes millions of dollars he just thought like look I made this in my kitchen should we try it I don't know and I mean it was no matter what is set out there he did go from being a planned worker 100 to being an exit top level executive top level executive 42 years that is a wild story and that's why Pepsi is one thousand percent behind him yeah like his body of work at the company has always been celebrated yeah we've always lifted him up we've always been do you like hot Cheetos love Hot Cheetos I've never tried it what I know we don't even have it yet it's too early right now isn't it have you guys tried it like everyone it's Universal I don't know why I haven't tried it do you like spicy I do yeah do you are you really good with spicy yeah so they're not spicy to me they're in Mexico we have extra they're XX flaming Hots which is in a black bag um and you can handle that yeah look at your nails is that on purpose yes but um no I grew up eating figment I don't remember a time where I didn't have flaming Hots um as a matter of fact the first time I ate a bag of normal Cheetos I thought something was wrong with my bag I was like oh I got a bum bag what the hell is this and they were like no those are regular Cheetos I was like there's a regular Cheeto because in the movie the little kid is like kind of the guinea pig yeah do were you a little kid eating spicy food really yes wow because I feel like in America at least till this day my my son is like almost three I was like don't give him spicy and I'm like am I not allowed to yeah like is it bad is it a bad thing or is it just like not good you know what I mean like we're tall kind of like that spicy can be like in Mexican culture like here's a jalapeno like eat it put it in the bottle my dad my mom would put jalapeno sauce on my nail so I wouldn't bite it yes like she was like go ahead bite your nails and she put jalapenos on my nails yeah I can't remember not having spicy stuff and you know what my my pediatrician because my son's five her she's Indian and same thing with like spices and she's like your children should eat what you eat yeah you know what I mean like how is he with like with spicy he's not there yet um and my my Mexican husband's very disappointed and she's trying to give him spice level I mean your stomach must be made of steel I feel like I after the age of 30 I can't handle beans spicy really alcohol all this stuff my stomach's like no I do all those things alcohol beans spicy not cheese that's uh yeah cheese is becoming a shoe yeah lactose has become an issue really you know what's so funny I just shot a show in Spain Mexico Spain the rest of the world has um this lactose milk like lactose free yeah and if you go to if you go to Starbucks if you go to any coffee shop they had that's an option but not here not here here you have to get the the plant-based yeah you got to get almond or soy or I was like no I want I want lactose free milk and they're like no but everywhere else in the world you can say this and they go oh yes yes okay I want to talk about you and how you started acting oh yeah yeah I know were you the little girl that like put on stage no I will say though I will say so I grew up in a family of educators and also like they're both teachers teachers my mom's a teacher my aunt's a professor my aunt everybody like is is education education education also my three sisters look like you like really yes like you mean like they're blonde light-skinned um they were all my three sisters were blonde like blonde we have pictures where there's the three sisters and me yeah and I was the only one that came out with black hair dark skin dark eyes my sisters have these beautiful hazel eyes my mom's weda which is uh the white one they call her theoetta because she's so light-skinned and so I grew up as La Prieta FEA which means the ugly dark one no way yeah oh yeah who called you that my mom no my family has like a Joe no it's like it's in a term of endearment but but like people would walk up to my mom and go your daughters are so beautiful and who's this oh and I would be like I'm one of them so much so that when I did a DNA test I was like I got I hope my parents are my parents why'd you do DNA test because I did that show where they trace your DNA or whatever and to find your roots and all that and it was so fun and the guy kept going you are going to be so surprised I can't wait till we reveal your DNA to you and I was like I'm so sorry am I my am I my parents child like don't tell me that on camera yeah and he was like yes and I was like oh okay okay just yeah oh God I was like I never thought to do a DNA test yeah but um so I wasn't the pretty one like I grew up as not the pretty one so I there was a conscious decision when I was young to be the funny one and I really think that has lent itself to my personality like not just like oh I'm gonna be an actress but like I just don't Value Beauty in my own self very much and I know I'm with L'Oreal I'm a spokesperson which my sisters are still like why'd they pick you still like nothing like family to grow yeah yeah um but I don't that's not a high value um characteristic in our family um except you know so I did do think I didn't grow up with celebrity you know again I'm much older than you and so we didn't have tabloids obviously we didn't have social media or anything like that but like it was like the National Enquirer was the big tabloid so it was like aliens have landed and Robert De Niro had a baby so you're like I don't know what to believe I don't know which is still happening by the way Robert De Niro is still having still having babies yeah still having babies I don't know about aliens I think no or Al Pacino both of them are in the situation currently so you didn't have tabloids so I didn't grow up with celebrity culture some people were like who were Your Role Models I'm like my mom my aunt my sister like what do you mean I never and today if you ask kids or younger people who's your mama they're like you know so and so it's like yeah it's always a celebrity and I was like no um so and I grew up with TV so my mom was a big soap Watcher so we'd watch soap operas you know so that's what when I when I landed in L.A and landed on a soap my mom you landed in L.A so arrived I want to know how you got to like go to La I was in a beauty pageant right yeah and so when I was in Texas La FEA went to a beauty pageant by the way my mom was like I really don't think you should do this my whole family was like why are you entering a vegan dance no no because it was a scholarship pageant mm-hmm and I didn't go in going I'm so beautiful I was in college it was my last year of college and I ran out of money I read my Pell Grant ran out my financial aid ran out my my parents weren't really you know paying for the college and uh um my girlfriend goes you should enter the scholarship pageant and I was like what what is that like a beauty pageant and she's like well yeah you know it's the same but but the prizes were was money for school and I was looking at the prizes and I was like fourth place was like books and I was like okay if I could just get fourth place then I'll get my books covered and then like third place was like books tuition and then you know second place was books tuition boarding and then first place was books tuition boarding and a stipend or whatever um and so I was like okay if I could just get I was trying to Cobble together you know the money to finish my senior year of college and so I entered it and I won um and I got to finish college because of it but because I won that at they're like and you advance to the next bachelor's like oh God no no no no I'm not a not a pageant girl I just wanted this prize and I had to move on to the next pageant but I remember calling my mom and I was like Mom I need a dress or a guy I think it's called a gown didn't even know I didn't know and she was like for what and I was like I'm in this beauty pageant she goes oh honey I don't think that's a good idea I mean do you think that's a good idea because she was like you're not gonna win you're going to be disappointed I'm like I'm not gonna be disappointed I just need to get fourth place and you won the first place and I won the crown oh wow yeah and then you advance in advance until and then so I Advanced to the Miss Corpus Christi pageant which is where I'm from I'm from Corpus and I was like let me just do this and then I won that one and um and in that Prize Package when I was Miss Corpus Christi USA 1998. um yes it's pageant wave um that in that Prize Package was a trip to LA and it was like for acting and modeling and I was like oh my God I just want to go to La like I'd never been out of Texas except to Mexico and so I was like yeah I'll go so I graduated college and I come to La um and it was like this modeling and talent convention that we had to go to and I was like okay and all these managers and agents wanted to sign me because it was like 1998-99 where it was like living la vida loca and JLo and made in Manhattan like oh like it was that Latin explosion right and they're like you're Latina you're gonna kill it here you should stay in La you're gonna do so well and I was like what do what well like what is it what is it and they're like acting modeling whatever um but like being Latins the new thing and I was like okay and this is 19. I was like okay I'll stay and I never went home oh my God I took that trip and I just told my mom yeah I got a manager and uh and five roommates in a one bedroom apartment like that were all at that little convention together from one from Minnesota and a girl from Idaho you know it was like and they were all like drama nerds and we've been studying but there's a whole lot I was like oh god I've never done this is amazing what's going on so rent was like 100 split between five people you know like we were all in this one bedroom apartment in Hollywood because I was like I want to live in Hollywood because when I write home this was when you still wrote letters it'll say Hollywood it'll say Hollywood California on the envelope and so that's why I chose to live in Hollywood you stayed well and then I had my degree and so I was like I can get a job I have a degree right I'm not going to wait tables wait what was your degree in kinesiology but then you went to education school right yeah and then I got my Master's later in Chicanos in Chicano studies during Desperate Housewives I'm telling you I come from a family of Educators they were like and you don't have your Masters like does it even count yeah does it even count do you even exist wait so you stayed and then you started getting like little Parts well then I did extra work because I'd never been on a set yeah and I was like let me let me I mean I should probably be on a set so I I signed up to be an extra and I did an extra extra jobs for like a year and I was just on set going what's that why is the camera there what's that what's that light do and they're like this extra needs to go back to holding can somebody take her back to holding and I was just like you wanted to learn I wanted to learn what's a mark why is this Mike here hello testing one two and they're like oh my god get off the set little girl and then I got one line and then I got two lines and then you know and I just moved my way my way up and did you get passionate about it as you were doing it like damn I kind of like you know what I what I got passionate about was producing and directing like I really was immediately was like who's that person behind the over there why do they seems like they're making all the decisions yeah they're like oh yeah that's those are the producers and I was like what's a producer like well the the bosses like they're the ones I put together and I immediately was like oh I want to be that I knew that really right away and then also like I took so many jobs I had 100 jobs jobs while I was pursuing acting and one of them I worked at a live event company as a PA and running around getting people coffee whatever but then learning right and I was like what's up what are you they're like hey send this budget upstairs and then I would just keep it I would make a copy of it I would study the budget because I wanted to know what does this mean and uh or you know booking Talent right and we had it was a live event come so there we need to book this band I mean and I was like oh okay and you got to call the agent who's it what's an agent like so the agent negotiates the fee no no we offer the fee and then and I was like okay like I just was so curious and I asked a lot of questions and I learned and then I moved up to like an 80 and then I was you know when you got The Young and the Restless your mom I won an Oscar like you would have thought I could have she could have died and gone to heaven because I was on Young and the rest is it like different acting though with the soap it's like more it's hard oh it's harder yeah in what way so hard well you do like 40 pages a day right right but in terms of like the acting which is I feel like more dramatic I well they're all dramas right you know it's not like understated actors yeah it's not like butt on bump there's no like yeah let's make this funny uh you know it's it's a dramatic uh you know forum and um you know there's actors who've been doing it forever and that again my mom was like oh my God you're gonna be on with so-and-so um Doug Davidson my my husband on the show I loved he was on the show I think he's still in the show but he was an amazing actor how did you stop did they kill they fired me they fired you at what point um after my contract I mean three years because the storyline ran out and um come back as like you're a ghost or something I know I know you didn't no I didn't but I um I I loved my time on there and uh learned a lot I mean just the amount of dialogue you have to learn it builds your memory muscle and so when I moved to prime time TV which like we're doing eight pages a day I'm like well I'll breathe sure so when you got Desperate Housewives oh it was yeah I was like oh I could do this at that point how long were you in the industry when you got that well I moved here in 98 and that was 2003 when I got the pilot yeah yeah and then uh 2004 it premiered to the world and that was really like the big that was the big one did you know it was gonna be big like when no I thought it wasn't gonna get picked up when we did the pilot I was like this is so different because it wasn't a drama and it wasn't a comedy they had women over 40 in it like God forbid you had a show with women over 40. I was the only one that wasn't 40. right but Gabby was kind of oh I was playing older because she was still their friend and but I remember it was like I go well I don't think this is gonna last but I I was like counting my money that I got from the pilot to see how long it would last like I was like okay I did this pilot I think I could survive for like another six months maybe a year and you know what like I was just budgeting my little apartment um based on just the pilot because I thought oh this will this won't get picked up it's too it's too different yeah and then again wow yeah so it was it was it was overnight the success of the show not me because I was like I said I had already done stuff and I was already on a prime time show before despacito so it wasn't like I was an overnight success but like the global reach that desperate times has had was overnight still I mean it still plays it still plays it's like one of those shows that just sticks in pop culture in people's yeah in the back of our minds yeah would you ever go back to do a reboot I would love to yeah I would be the first I saw that Jesse Metcalf was just at the premiere yeah which is so funny because I feel like you're married you know with a child but still there was like Eva Longoria and Jesse Metcalf like a sexy couple we were best friends on that show because you know Jesse was playing younger right he was playing a 17 year old but he was 25 and I was 28 playing 40. you know so we were the same age and we were like in the same Hollywood cool group of like let's go so we were we were best friends and again this thing happened to us you know this explosion happened to us and Jesse and I both came from soaps he was on a soap also so we kind of had the same background and um we just held each other's hands through this moment and it was really great him and my husband Ricardo chavita I loved like I had I had great guys on on the show you had a lot of guys I know well that's another reason I was like I don't know if we could reboot it there's nobody else I could sleep with I have slept with everybody on that show I don't think they come to support you at the premiere yeah it's so cute yeah are you still in touch with any of the other women oh yeah yes Felicity and Marsha and I are very close um you know they were they were my Rock on the show they were they took me under their wing you know they had successes they you know Marsha had Melrose Place before yeah he had you know she was an actor so she had amazing success and so for me I was like I'm just happy to be here um and they those two like I I was so lucky to like be in their presence and and be in their warmth like they're amazing like it was a fun show to film you had good chemistry yeah it was yeah the chemistry we we tapped into something that was you couldn't describe like we were just all on the same frequency and and I loved it it was a decade of our life yeah it's a long time where did you film Universal Studios in L.A oh that's fun yeah you weren't like stuck in Atlanta or something no no Los Angeles yeah that's fun I know and rare I know um your son Santiago yeah cutest thing ever thank you five turning five five in a minute now June 18 19. okay so not a Gemini it is a Gemini it is a Gemini still yes oh okay okay but for guys I get it but for guys I get it I know for guys from astrology people yeah it's a thing I mean my son's a Leo so it's like we're in it okay we're in the thick of it I'm glad I'm also glad he's not a Taurus I don't know why really he's like oh God I don't know I feel like that would have been problematic too they're all they all have but Geminis I mean listen we love them we love him so he's the cutest thing ever he's turning five and you I read that you said that before you met your current husband who has children you weren't That Into You were like not thinking about it yeah and his kids kind of sparked that in you um no Pepe sparked it in me like just he is I always think children are a product of love right they're just a beautiful blessing I really think that and so people are like do you want to have kids you want kids I was like I mean if I if it happens I don't feel like I was never the person who's gonna do it by myself like I'm gonna go do it myself I I was like no I think I think I'm okay and I was 40 you know when I met Pepe so when when were you pregnant 43 and how was that did you were you good really good really great yeah they have those jeans it was good look at you yeah I can't deal with it it's honestly annoying it was great but yeah so then Pepe was like and I loved his children I mean I love his children um um but yeah I was just like I think this we should do this and we're like yeah let's let's do this um and now I can't I mean I just I don't even remember life before I know what do we do on weekends I don't know and I was like how much time did I read books I think I used to read books that's that's what I think about sometimes I'm like what what did I do with all these three times what are you so busy about like I remember being busy yeah but I also think like people go wow how do you handle it all your career and motherhood I was like well I built my career when I did not have a child yes and that's easy you know what I mean because it's all about you it's all about you it's all about you how is it navigating your career now now because you know I get to choose what I want to do it's so much easier to make decisions about my career because if it's going to pull time away from Santi and my family then I'm just not going to do it yeah you know I mean things that you're really I gotta go to Bulgaria no like you know what I mean like Atlanta no I'm not you know we so I'm really I'm really lucky that I get to I have that filter now where it's like easier to say no to things um because of what you're doing uh nobody did see Dora the Explorer and he was like wait you're Dora's mom and I was like um yeah but just sometimes you know and he was like what do you mean sometimes so that was the first time he saw me on screen yeah uh but he's been on every set I've directed and he's since he was in my belly to breastfeeding to he says action on flaming hot uh you know he's so he gets that actually he's are you teaching him both Spanish and English yeah doing the bilingual thing yeah are you like making it a point to like at home we speak English no we just speak Spanish you just speak Spanish because he'll pick up the everybody speaks English yeah yeah and he's perfectly bilingual he's way better Spanish speaker than me he corrects me all the time all the time and he gets frustrated like he's like Mom oh my God that's not like he was playing with a knife the other day and I said uh I was telling him no it's dangerous I said uh-huh but I was trying to say no no the knife is sharp okay no no you know um we sharp that's what I said and he goes filoso Mama filoso but like that like like with the head attitude attitude and I was like oh is that the word for Sharp I never know the word for Sharp he corrects me all the time like um what's uh I don't know some bugs like he knows all the bugs in Spanish he knows well he goes to to school there well yeah like he has he has everything is everything and he's immersed in Spanish yeah our my whole family you know takes the whole village around him speaks Spanish and wow when we live in Mexico City it's like pure Spanish a woman we're in La it's Spanish in the household but and then you know everybody else everywhere else yeah um I have to ask you about your friendship with Victoria Beckham okay because when I first saw it I was like okay friendship goals I feel like you guys just kind of booped it on Instagram some like pose together and I was like we don't know about this yeah how did you meet um we met because my ex-husband knew David because of the Sports World and so that's why I met David and Victoria and then um they moved when David played for the LA Galaxy to Los Angeles back in the 2000s yeah and um and that was it we were like peas in a pod we just were like uh and she's you know the same kind of funny we both like she's just so funny I feel like people know about you but people don't know that about her gosh she is so funny and uh by one of the funniest people I know I mean she's so funny and she's the most loyal caring kind human beings like she she is there wow um yeah she's just a good human being I know people are amazed at like two celebs but like no she's a really she's like a good she's celebs they're friends like it's like we don't I don't look at it like that like if she would be my friend if we both were just like neighbors yeah um and uh he uh she's just a great mom and a great businesswoman and a great like everything you're like yes I want to be more of that yeah yeah you surround yourself with people that you like respect and yeah so I wanted to shout out your tequila oh my God you're looking at it you're like um 11 in the morning people yeah it's a repo baby sure was genius yes who knows I know I know I know who knows that's why I'm trying not to be too hard on the on the nippo babies because I'm like my son might be a nipple but no my son will earn his way for sure um a few quick questions before you go yes coffee order uh from Starbucks or in general yeah I have a four shot latte but small like a small cup with four shots basically I want espresso with a little bit of milk and we know you drink plant-based milk no dislactose well when you're here I I just do low fat oh okay oh I know because I can't you don't like the other one I don't like the other one they don't cream it enough they don't cream it up and they have a taste I don't think favorite snack flaming hot Cheetos any shows you're watching right now well I just finished the last of us which oh that was so good because I'm in love with Pedro Pascal I mean yeah that's my celebrity crush he is yes he's so well my all-time celebrity crush will always be Ricky Martin did you meet him yeah he's one of my best friends oh stop but I met him when I was 14. I literally stood in line for menudo uh autograph and in my home why isn't he making music Tony is on tour okay yeah scratch that in post [Laughter] in America everywhere everywhere everywhere he's on tour right now like he was just in Argentina or Peru or something oh that's so cool so you're good friends with him very good for it we're like we're we're very good that's my other really dear friend um but I still love him as I would love to marry him [Laughter] directed yes thank you yeah yeah it's the documentary uh about the 25th anniversary of Julio Cesar Chavez fighting Oscar De La Hoya and how it really divided the Mexican household because Oscar was Mexican-American and the new guy and Julio Cesar Chavez was the champion and the Mexican still National Treasure yeah uh and so it's a really interesting dock that that explores who gets to say you're Mexican enough and it was through this fight and it was really it's really powerful it's on the Zone well you're really connecting to your to your roots this is the stories I know I know I'm not meaning to like I'm only gonna do Latinos I just think we have a lot of stories to tell and well Oscar De La Hoya yeah do you guys Connect into pop culture for a minute okay was married to Shannon Shannon Moakler yes I don't think they got married but they have a baby they have a child a baby a Tiana who Travis Barker is her stepdad stepdad she's really part of the fam I mean he's like her second dad so that's really cool I saw you're on Tick Tock now I'm on the Dick talk I am I'm not on the tick tock you know I was like a younger and hipper than me I can't handle it it's a lot yeah it's a lot and it's very uh I get it I get it like it but it's so fast um it it it's too frenetic for me yeah I mean I want to look at those things you don't want to see you're like I didn't know I gotta figure out my algorithm because I feel like I'm getting myself [ __ ] lately mine was showing me girls putting on concealer and I was like they don't get that I don't want to see that yeah but you are on Tick Tock other exciting stuff coming up um what else do I have Jamie oh okay yes uh but I don't we don't have an air day for that but I have a show on Apple that I uh shot it's the first time I'll be back on TV in a while oh my God that's exciting I know very excited Apple's so bougie um I was so excited um and I just shot a movie um for Disney plus which was Alexander and the horrible terrible no good really bad day that's a sequel to to that and that was really fun we just wrapped Jesse Garcia and I Jessie Garcia is the star of flaming hot but now that we went to go do this movie oh that's cool I know it's so great he's uh how good is the star of flaming hot so good he's amazing everybody go watch it yes such a fun like I said um inspiring movie that's like a whole family movie yes I also told my husband I was like he doesn't watch TV with me a lot unless it's like murder or something yeah so and I told him I was like this is the story and I feel like it's just so enticing to everybody I was like you know the Flaming Hot Cheetos so it's about the guy he was in the and I just feel like it it's one of those things it's so easy to get people on board to watch it yeah it was a number one streamed movie in the history yeah I always look at Rotten Tomatoes I have a problem Oh wait do you look at Rotten Tomatoes I don't really I just they send me the score so it's doing really well yeah but also audience which is more important way more way more important really yes we are we I I I always go I can't believe it I can't believe it we made a beautiful film yeah you know 88 my followers know how I am about Rotten Tomatoes so yeah um I I'm like oh I'm the surprise stew because there was a study uh about Rotten Tomatoes about like they didn't have enough women and and diverse critics and so sometimes that can skew a movie you know if you have a rom-con they go boo I didn't get it well it wasn't made for you yeah yeah right I mean no but honestly as much as I like rotten tomatoes I'm usually at like a 40 CR like if if the critics give it a 40 I'm I'm in I'm I'm in I'm like this is good for me uh if it's 100 I'm like I'm scared okay Eva Longoria thank you so much for coming on thank you for having a fun like pleasure for me oh so thank you for making this movie thank you and uh for coming on my show thanks for having me yay yes oh my God that went by too fast I know I know

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