Our beloved Eva will be gracing the July issue of W magazine which comes out next Tuesday. USA Today has an excerpt of her interview for the magazine.
Eva Mendes is spilling out of her dress on the cover of the July issue of W, on newsstands June 22.
But it’s no big deal for the actress. She has posed nude for Maxim and stirred up a controversy with her bare nipple in a 2008 TV ad for Calvin Klein perfume.
“I’ve never had a problem with nudity,” she says in the W story, “but I don’t put it out there without a reason. I’m not an exhibitionist. But, honestly, for my art I’ll do anything, almost. I’ll go there.”
When asked whether nudity makes her feel objectified, she says, “I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol. It’s a hard one to walk if you want to be known as a real, credible actor. But I’ve never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident. . . . I’m incredibly calculated when it comes to my career.”
On her dual passions: “I’m a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I’m fiercely independent, and I’m really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind. I do like to belong to a man. I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it’s a dichotomy.” Mendes, 36, met her current love, music producer George Augusto, shortly after high school, and the two now own a midcentury house in the Hollywood Hills.
On her ethnicity: “I don’t consider myself a Latin American actress. I was born and raised here, and I have Cuban parents, but for me, I am the new American girl. It’s not only Drew Barrymore and the blond Mid-western girl. This, [pointing to her face] is also what we look like now.”
Source: USA Today
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