The former desperate housewife, who has become a champion of female conquests, participates in the Tell It Like a Woman project, seven female stories. “A big step backwards on abortion in the US, it all started when Obama was ambushed in the Senate” Longoria: “The world of cinema is behind on civil rights, sexism and violence, it must do more”
There is no trace of the desperate housewife. It is useless to look for Gabrielle, the character who changed her life, the frivolous extrovert of the group, a lover of luxury (and her gardener).
Eva Longoria, shouting Girl Power, she has become the passionate about women’s rights. You fight against discrimination and prevarication. Overwhelming the fame of the former travel companions of the award-winning TV series Desperate Housewives, has carved out her place in the world: «Being an actress is what I do, it doesn’t tell who I am. I am a mother, member of a community interested in what happens to other women, I come from a family of philanthropists, helping others is part of my DNA I’m not like those actors who say, I don’t have time to get involved in these things “.
And here it is in the collective project Tell it Like a Woman, presented at the Taormina Festival. Eva and the others: seven short films of women about women. Eva Longoria lives her profession as a mission, she says that “TV is doing a better job with directors, we are behind in the cinema, we need to be better represented”. And the first of a series of applause starts.
He abandons the tones of the “rally” and reaches the heart when he talks about the “step backwards” against abortion just launched in the USA. She says that the former President Obama, whom she had supported in the electoral campaign, was ambushed: «The Supreme Court was influenced by Donald Trump. Obama was supposed to be allowed to choose a judge, but his appointment was blocked by the Senate, which meant that Trump had six conservative judges against three. There have been unfulfilled promises. As women we will not stand still, we will continue to fight against that decision and to fight for women’s rights, because they are human rights ”. There have always been misunderstandings about Eva, many in Hollywood believed that she was Italian and she always said yes, it’s true. “In reality everyone thought I was Mexican but I only have my roots there, I was born in Texas in a town called Corpus Christi, at the time I was a model they named me Miss Corpus Christi”. She has the fierce determination of someone who has achieved success late (in her case of her at 30) and wants to keep it tight.
The seven shorts project will be released in US theaters in autumn, the co-producer Andrea Iervolino: «It was a feat, the genesis dates back to 2015».
For Italy, Maria Sole Tognazzi directed Margherita Buy in Unspoken: «It is a true story of domestic violence that happened in America, a woman full of bruises to be able to leave the house hurt her dog, so she went to a veterinary clinic and had the man who beat her arrested». She remembers having been assistant director “for ten years, I struggled to get respect from the crew of men.” Regarding abortion, Maria Sole hopes that there will be no relapses in Italy, «when I turned I and she I was almost excommunicated from the church ».
Here again Eva: «Women must be twice more prepared and capable than men to go on and resist. Here I am an actress for Lagonegro by Lucia Puenzo, on the freedom of a woman to take care of her niece after the death of her sister. Patriarchy is alive and well in the world. We need a feminine vision of things ». The meeting goes all in one direction. Diane Warren (entrusted Sofia Carson with the song Applause), says that “men must recover and heal from centuries of conditioning, but we do not want to exclude them”.
More applause from the audience.
June 29, 2022 (change June 30, 2022 | 12:36)
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