Eva Longoria talks 'kindest human' Tom Cruise, her 'cousin' Meryl Streep, and Eddie Murphy
Eva Longoria covers the latest issue of DuJour Magazine
She's promoting her new show on Apple TV+, Land of Women, which launches in June. She will also be in the fourth season of the hit series Only Murders in the Building
On her co star in Only Murders in the Building, Meryl Streep. Eva revelas that Streep is actually her distant relative. 'We actually call each other cousin,' Longoria laughs. 'We'll say, 'How are you, cousin?' and 'I'm good, cousin.'In the first Zoom table read for Only Murders, Streep introduced Longoria as her cousin.
'She tells the story and everyone's so confused, because I'm the most Latina person in the industry and she's Meryl Streep,' Longoria recalled.
Longoria doesn’t often get starstruck, but that’s how she felt about working with Eddie Murphy. “He’s my Hollywood,” she explains, describing how she was inspired by Murphy’s classic projects from Harlem Nights to Beverly Hills Cop. “He’s my kind of funny. He’s a comedy savant.”
Eva was at Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday party in London in April.
Of all of those experiences, which was the most entertaining?
“It’s a toss-up,” Longoria says, adding that Cruise “is the kindest human being and the best dancer. I’ve seen him dance at many parties.” She didn’t recall him doing the splits at any of those other parties, though. This was special. “I danced for five hours at the party and we didn’t leave till 3 a.m.,” Longoria says. “I woke up sore wondering if I’d worked out [too hard] the day before. No, we just danced a lot.”
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