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Eva Mendes BiographyEva Mendes was born in Houston, Texas but raised in Miami and Los Angeles. Eva Mendes' first taste of acting came when she appeared in a feature film to earn some money between university semesters, but opportunity struck when an agent noticed her picture in her photographer neighbor's home. Soon appearing in an Aero smith video and making her film debut in Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror, Eva worked her way through the gamut of aspiring actors to appear in such high-profile films as Urban Legends: Final Cut and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. In 2003, Mendes' career took off, with the actress taking on large roles in an ecclectic quartet of high-profile films. In 2 Fast 2 Furious she played a customs agent working with Paul Walker to bring down a Miami drug cartel. Out of Time found her reteaming with Training Day costar Denzel Washington. 2004 saw no signs of Mendes slowing down, with the Cuban-American beauty starring as the ex-girlfriend of Luke Wilson in The Wendell Baker Story, a film Wilson cowrote with brother Owen Wilson and codirected with sibling Andrew Wilson. 2005 saw Eva as Will Smith's love attention, reporter Sara, in Andy Tennant's romance-comedy Hitch. Eva will be seen in upcoming films Trust the Man (Directed by Bart Freundlich), and Mark Steven Johnson's thriller Ghost Rider (starring Nicolas Cage).Eva in 'Hitch' Controversy25 February 2005 Will Smith has told reporters in Birmingham, England that the decision to cast a Cuban-American actress, Eva Mendes, as his romantic interest in Hitch was based on "an accepted myth." According to Smith, the prevalent assumption in Hollywood is that if both the male and female leads in a romantic comedy are black, "people around the world don't want to see it. The compromise, in the case of Hitch, he said, was to select a Latina actress for the role. |
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"It's fun to be a woman. It's fun to flirt and wear makeup and have boobs." "The celebrity world can be so ugly. Everyone seems to have slept with everyone else and it's some sort of strange weird cycle. I don't want to get into that." 