For the InHerShoes podcast, EvaLongoria talks to Cut editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples about her CNN series, 'Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico,' in which she learns more about precolonial Mexico, reckons with her history, and finally comes around on mole
I’m very excited for you, and such amazing storytelling always around food. I feel like it’s such a communal conversation always.I want to talk about your film that premiered at Sundance, which is about the rivalry between two boxers, Julio and Oscar. What drew you to this project? What made you decide that this was something that you really wanted to do?I didn’t want to do it.
Definitely on both sides, I’m not Mexican enough and I’m not American enough, and so navigating that is you just have a daily identity crisis until you really reconcile that when people go, “Oh, you’re half Mexican, half American,” and I go, “No, I’m 100% Mexican and 100% American at the same time.” But, I feel like I’ve probably experienced more barriers as a woman. There’s been more sexism in our industry, compound that by being a woman of color.
He’ll tell you, he was like, “I’m the smartest, most uneducated you’ll ever meet.” He’s just like, “I’m not educated, but man am I smart.” I think a lot of people from communities of color will identify with that struggle of like, “No, I don’t got that elite education or I may not have this,” but Richard’s line is… he goes, “I don’t got no degree, but I have a PhD, I’m poor, hungry, and determined.”That’s real, and that’s sometimes better fuel for going after things you want in life.
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