Eva Mendes has hinted that she will only return to acting if it is with husband Ryan Gosling

Eva Mendes has hinted that she will only return to acting if it is with husband Ryan Gosling

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Eva Mendes has reflected on her decision to step away from acting, and hinted that she would only want to return to the screen if she was alongside husband Ryan Gosling.

Mendes and Gosling first met when they played a married couple in director Derek Cianfrance’s 2012 crime drama The Place Beyond the Pines. They appeared together again in the 2014 fantasy thriller Lost River, which Gosling wrote and directed.

Mendes has not starred in a film since, although she did voice work on the children’s series Bluey.

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Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling took a rare public outing together this summer at the 2024 Paris Olympics (NBC)

In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Mendes said: “I never liked acting. I don’t mean this in a self-deprecating way, but I wasn’t a great actress. I’ve had my moments when I’ve worked with really great people.

She added that her two films with Gosling are the work she is proud of, explaining: “He brought out something in me that was not possible to achieve before.”

Mendes went on to say that she felt like she was often typecast throughout her 16-year acting career, and would likely return to acting only if Gosling was involved. “This is the only thing I like to do,” she said.

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Ryan Gosling (and baby) with Eva Mendes in The Place Beyond the Pines (AP Photo/Focus Features)

Last month, Mendes told Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos that she was undecided about returning on camera. “I don’t know,” she said. “If there were – you know – if there were interesting roles.”

Since stepping away from acting, Mendes has written a children’s picture book called Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries, which aims to destigmatize the anxiety that children suffer from.

“It’s a buddy story about this little girl and her mind,” the Hitch actor said. “And Desi has these never-ending fears — I do too — and she’s trying to work with her mind to make sure that he’s not bullying her by sending all these negative thoughts to her way and that she’s like her BFF. And that’s how it comes down to this relationship.”

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Ryan Gosling wore a T-shirt promoting Eva Mendes’ children’s book during a press tour (YouTube/This Morning)

“I want to open up dialogue and advance the conversation,” Mendez added.

Mendes also previously said she felt “very lucky” to spend more time focusing on her daughters, Esmeralda, 10, and Amada, 8, whom she shares with Gosling.

“It was like a no-brainer. I’m so lucky, and I was thinking if I could spend that time with my kids. Because acting takes you to the set, it keeps you away,” she said.

“It was almost like a non-verbal agreement, where it was: OK, he’ll work and I’ll work.” “I’ll just work here,” she explained. “He went and did his job. He just happened to be really good at his job. So he did it and came home.”

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