Eva Mendes Reveals Whether She’d Ever Return to Acting

When it comes to getting back into acting, Eva Mendes never says never.

The Hitch star acknowledged that, despite the fact that it has been precisely ten years since her last film, she may be open to acting again, but she is by no means in a rush to do so.

Eva said, “I don’t know,” to George Stephanopoulos of Good Morning America on September 18. If there are positions that interest you. Ten years ago, at the time I left, it was also… I felt as though I had succeeded, you know?”

The 50-year-old actress clarified that she decided it was the right time to leave the film industry after deciding to quit performing after collaborating on consecutive movies with her boyfriend, Ryan Gosling, with whom she has two children, Esmeralda, 10, and Amada, 8.

After all, the pair collaborated once again on Eva’s final film project, 2014’s Lost River, which Ryan, 43, both wrote and directed. The pair first met on 2012’s The Place Beyond the Pines.

I was like, ‘I just worked with Ryan Gosling, who’s, like, the best,’ she gushed. “It was such a high off my career to work with him and what we created together that I was like, ‘This is a good time to, like, Seinfeld it and just walk out.'”

But as Eva coyly added, “So, who knows?”

Over the years, the actress has shared insight into her absence from the big screen, including calling out the lack of substantive Latina roles available to her.

“I don’t really miss it,” Eva said of acting in a 2022 interview with Variety. “I got tired fighting for the good roles. There just was a point where I thought, ‘I’m going to create my own opportunities and become a producer on things and create my own material,’ but it just didn’t feel worth it to me.”

She added, “There are more opportunities for Latina actresses now, but when I bowed out 10 years ago I wasn’t being offered things that weren’t specifically Latina. It is exciting that things are different now, so who knows what I will do in the future.”

She also wanted to step away from acting to be able to focus on raising her and Ryan’s two daughters.

“I thought, ‘Oh, this is what I’m supposed to do right now,’” Eva explained. “Right now, I’m keeping it in the home with my kids.”

The 2 Fast 2 Furious star stepped back from more than just acting over the past 10 years; fans also noticed that she was posting less on social media. The actress revealed in 2021 that she had done so simply to be more present for her kids.

“I’m posting less because I really want to be present for my family,” Eva said in response to a commenter who posited she’d stopped posting because she’d gotten work done. “My little ones need me and posting takes up too much time. As far as getting work done, I’ll do that whenever I please. But no, that’s not the reason. The reason is I personally cannot juggle family and social media.”

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