Eva Mendes admits her and Ryan Gosling’s kids are ‘not impressed’ by her movies
nypost.com“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Wednesday that her and Ryan Gosling’s two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 10, and Amada Lee, 8, have never seen any of her movies.“They don’t care,” Mendes said. “This was about a year ago.
I tried to show them a scene from ‘Hitch’ that I was actually proud of because I’m scared of deep, dark water. I had to do this physical comedy stunt thing in the Hudson [River].
I was so scared. So I faced a fear that day and I did this stunt I was proud of it.”“One time, one of my girls was scared and I’m like, ‘Ooh, opportunity to show off,’ ” Mendes went on. “I played it for them and I was like, ‘This is Mama facing her fear.'”However, Esmeralda and Amada “were not impressed at all” after seeing a snippet of their mom’s 2005 movie with Will Smith.“They were just like, ‘OK, cool, Mama, can we go outside?’ ” Mendes said. “They didn’t care.”After 16 years in the business, Mendes stepped away from acting in 2014 to care for her children and focus on other business ventures.But she did have a voice role in an episode of “Bluey” in 2021 — which caught her daughters’ attention.“Now that impressed them!” Mendes told Fallon, 50, adding that the animated children’s series is her family’s “favorite show.”She also revealed that she “asked” for her role as a yoga instructor in the show.Mendes hasn’t acted in ten years, but Gosling, 43, has continued to be a massive Hollywood star.
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