While it’s been 10 years since Eva Mendes appeared on the big screen, she’s still keeping a door open for a potential return to acting.
The actress recently stopped by Good Morning America to chat about her debut children’s book, Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries, when she was asked if she would ever come back to Hollywood.
“I don’t know. If there’s interesting roles. I left at a time where, 10 years ago, I kind of felt like I did it, ya know, I just worked with Ryan Gosling. He’s like the best,” she said with a laugh. “It was such a high off my career to work with him and what we created together that I was like, this is a good time to Seinfeld it and just walk out. So, who knows?” (Seinfeld ended abruptly after season nine, despite being popular, as co-creator and star Jerry Seinfeld felt it was the right time to end the series).
Mendes appeared in dozens of other projects, including 2 Fast 2 Furious and The Other Guys, before starring opposite Gosling, her now husband, in 2012’s The Place Beyond the Pines. She later took a step back from acting to focus on raising their two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 9, and Amada Lee, 7, as well as other career endeavors.
“It was like a no-brainer,” she previously told the Today show in March. “I’m so lucky, and I was like, if I could have this time with my children — and I still work, I just didn’t act, because acting takes you on location. It takes you away. It was almost just like a non-verbal agreement that it was like, ‘OK, he’s [Gosling] going to work and I’m going to work. I’m just going to work here.’”
While the couple have kept their relationship private over the years, they have continued to find subtle ways to show their support for each other, such as Mendes’ sweet Instagram post following Gosling’s dazzling “I’m Just Ken” Oscars performance earlier this year.
