Eva Mendes says she’s more of a ’serious actress’ than Jennifer Lopez

Eva Mendes made a dig at Jennifer Lopez in a recent interview. She tried to play it off like a back handed compliment, but it came off as just weak and petty. Mendes said that she can’t be compared to fellow latin actress/spokesperson Jennifer Lopez because she’s oh-so-serious about her acting career while J.Lo is a brand. She also bragged about how smart her boyfriend is, and implied that she’s smart for dating outside the usual Hollywood STD circle:

On being compared to Jennifer Lopez: “I would like to think I will have a more serious career than J-Lo. We may both be of Latin origin but that’s where the comparisons stop. She manages her career like the head of a big corporation, wheras the only thing I care about is becoming the best actress possible.”

On not dating other actors: “I would never consider going out with another actor because it’s always difficult to have two egocentric people in one relationship, it’s a smaller circle than you realize and everybody has slept with everybody. It’s this sex-recycling machine and I don’t want to be a part of it.”

On her boyfriend George Gargurevich: “He’s very well read and really sexy to me. I love a well-read man - that’s such a turn-on.”

[From ES Magazine via ONTD/Flawed Hollywood]

How is Eva not managing her career like a corporation when she’s posing in multiple half-dressed photospreads and making nip slip perfume ads that end up getting banned - and generating a lot of buzz? If she wants to do sexy topless toe-sucking photoshoots and endorse products for cash more power to her. She’s hot and it’s her perogative, but she shouldn’t say that she’s just a serious actress and doesn’t promote herself like J.Lo because that’s not true at all. If anything she sees Lopez as competition and that’s why she’s pissed off that people are comparing her.

Here’s Eva Mendes’ Secret Obsession Banned ad:

And here she is being a serious actress for Revlon:

Mendes is shown in the header at Elle’s Women in Hollywood event on 10/6/08. Credit: Nikki Nelson/ WENN. She’s also seen leaving a convenience store with a bunch of magazines with her perfume ad on them on 09/29/08. Credit: Fame Pictures

Published 10/10/08 by


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