Eva Longoria Drops Her Skin Care Routine
glamour.comto share her latest passion project, her whole face lights up and I can't help but lean closer to my screen. “The story found me,” she tells Glamour. “My agent sent me the script, and I was like, ‘I need to tell this story.’”The script in question became Longoria's directorial debut , which chronicles Richard Montañez's path from janitor at Frito Lay to the man who made Flamin' Hot Cheetos a global phenomenon. “He's Mexican American,” she says. “And you know, he looks like me, he looks like my dad, he sounds like my family.
It was a community I knew well.” Longoria has always been vocal about her role as a Latina multi-hyphenate in Hollywood. (At the peak of her Desperate Housewives fame, she on the subversive thrill of being a Latina on television who employed a white gardener.)“I've been told no,” she says. “I've been told, 'You shouldn't do that.
No, women don't do those jobs. Ideas don't come from people like you.'” In those rejections, she recognized the same obstacles Montañez faces throughout his narrative. “He's there to say, ‘But why not?’” she says. “He really questioned this archaic system and protocol, and changed it.”Longoria has worn many hats throughout her career of questioning archaic systems: actor, producer, director, founding member of Time’s Up, activist, philanthropist—the list goes on.
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