Eva Longoria Calls Out Hollywood
Eva Longoria: "A white male can direct a $200 million film, fail and get another one. That’s the problem. I get one at-bat, one chance, work twice as hard, twice as fast, twice as cheap." https://t.co/2Ok8qvGKYT
- Variety (@Variety) May 23, 2023
Longoria is making her feature directorial debut with “Flamin’ Hot,”
As a female director, a first-time director and a Latina director, Longoria felt the weight of her community and the weight of every female director when production started on “Flamin’ Hot.”
Longoria noted that Hollywood does not play fair when it comes to films directed by women flopping versus male directors. There can be no margin of error for a director like Longoria, as one flop could cost her another directorial gig.
“We don’t get a lot of bites at the apple. My movie wasn’t low budget by any means - it wasn’t $100 million, but it wasn’t $2 million. When was the last Latina-directed studio film? It was like 20 years ago. We can’t get a movie every 20 years. The problem is if this movie fails, people go, ‘Oh Latino stories don’t work…female directors really don’t cut it.’ We don’t get a lot of at-bats. A white male can direct a $200 million film, fail and get another one. That’s the problem. I get one at-bat, one chance, work twice as hard, twice as fast, twice as cheap. You really carry the generational traumas with you into the making of the film,”
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