‘Desperate Housewives’ star Eva Longoria calls out Hollywood for not being ‘liberal, progressive industry’

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told Grazia. “What we do [in the industry] matters, it can change culture and, when you change culture, you can change policy, perception.

You can change a lot of things with storytelling.” Longoria will soon be back in front of the camera with the six-part series “Land of Women” from her new Hyphenate Media Group. “I like producing with purpose,” she told the outlet. “I want to tell stories for my Latine community.

We have a lot of heroes, things to say, an amazing talent pool of storytellers. It’s refreshing and innovative — in an industry that keeps going to the same writers and creators for the same stories — to have a different perspective and point of view, because it changes everything, makes it more interesting, more relevant.” Of the show, Longoria said she told creator Roman Campos, “I wanted to work in Spain and asked him to write me a show set in wine country.

I told him a wish list of what I was looking for in a show and he came up with ‘Land Of Women.’ Apple bought it straight away and we went into production.” Fox News Digital reached out to Longoria’s representatives for further comment.The actress, who is an advocate for women and Latinos, made the same point while promoting “Flamin’ Hot” at Cannes in 2023. “I felt the weight of my community, I felt the weight of every female director because we don’t get a lot of bites at the apple,” she told reporters at the time.“We can’t get a movie every 20 years,” she said. “So the problem is if this movie fails, people go, ‘Oh, Latino stories don’t work.’ ‘Oh, female directors really don’t cut it.’”She added, “We don’t get a lot of at-bats.