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Speaker 2: So earlier today I spoke with Eva Longoria, who is
Speaker 2: not only an award winning actor, producer, and director, but
Speaker 2: she is also an activist committed to lifting up the
Speaker 2: Latino community and women in Hollywood. Eva Longoria, Welcome to
Speaker 2: the Daily Social Distancing show.
Speaker 3: How are you? I'm so happy to speak with you.
Speaker 3: I see you every day, but it's really nice to
Speaker 3: be able to speak with you. Well.
Speaker 2: You can speak to the TV screen all you want.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody still speak, and you can just
Speaker 2: say things to me and then we're speaking to each other.
Speaker 3: Many times I've yelled at you the TV.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show. Let's jump straight into it. I
Speaker 2: mean you you made news this week being part of
Speaker 2: history hosting the first virtual Democratic National Convention. Everyone from
Speaker 2: random people on Twitter to Senator Marco Rubio, you know,
Speaker 2: random people tweeted out what is Eva Longoria doing here?
Speaker 2: She has no idea how to connect with everyday, real
Speaker 2: life Americans. How do you respond to that? Are you
Speaker 2: not a real life American? What does that even mean
Speaker 2: to you?
Speaker 3: All Right? I know, you know I've gotten this my
Speaker 3: entire life because I've been a political activist for twenty
Speaker 3: five years. I mean most of my adult life, I've
Speaker 3: been involved in my civic duty, which I think everybody should.
Speaker 3: It's like if you told a dentist, oh, shut up
Speaker 3: and do teeth, Like, wait, no, you can't have an
Speaker 3: opinion because you're a dentist, or an actor or a
Speaker 3: farm worker. I totally understand my position of privilege today
Speaker 3: and the work that I've done to get to where
Speaker 3: I'm at. But I was on student loans. I had
Speaker 3: pel grants to get to college. I worked at Wendy's
Speaker 3: most of my young life to pay for college. I
Speaker 3: had student debt. I mean, it was not until my
Speaker 3: mid thirties that I figured life out and I approached
Speaker 3: hosting the first night of the DNC as a ninth
Speaker 3: generation Texans, as the daughter of a veteran, as the
Speaker 3: daughter of a teacher, and as a wife and as
Speaker 3: a mom, and as an American and a patriot. And
Speaker 3: sometimes I hate that one party is hijack the word
Speaker 3: patriot because it actually belongs to everybody. Anybody who loves
Speaker 3: this country is a patriot. That's who I was on
Speaker 3: Monday Night.
Speaker 2: Some people would argue that you were the perfect face
Speaker 2: to kick off the DNC with because Joe Biden hasn't
Speaker 2: been his strongest with Latino voters. You know, I think
Speaker 2: it was Julian Castro who said that Joe Biden and
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party have to do a better job of
Speaker 2: reaching out to Latino voters and showing them that they
Speaker 2: have their best interests at hearts. Where do you think
Speaker 2: the Democratic Party could do a better job of reaching
Speaker 2: out to the Latino community at large?
Speaker 3: Wow? You know it's people assume Latinos are a monolithic
Speaker 3: group and we're not. We're very faction just generational generationally.
Speaker 3: And I think that there's an assumption that we vote
Speaker 3: democratically and both parties shouldn't take the Latino vote for granted.
Speaker 3: I think that both parties need to do a better
Speaker 3: job at really understanding Latino issues are American issues. The
Speaker 3: number one issue Latinos care about is the economy. Number
Speaker 3: one issue Americans care about the economy. You know, people
Speaker 3: make the assumption, you know, we only care about immigration,
Speaker 3: or we only care about citizenship, and that's part of it,
Speaker 3: and that's definitely an important issue, but it's we share
Speaker 3: the same values as all Americans. We want to have
Speaker 3: economic mobility. We want to have the opportunity and the
Speaker 3: infrastructure of opportunity in our communities to move ahead and
Speaker 3: have progress, generational progress in our families.
Speaker 2: With that in mind, I have to ask you about
Speaker 2: Moment told Latino. What is it all about.
Speaker 3: Yes, Momental Latino is it translates to the Latin Moment,
Speaker 3: but it is a coalition of activists and leaders and
Speaker 3: business people and it's about lifting up our voices within
Speaker 3: the Latino community right now because we are one of
Speaker 3: the most effective communities due to COVID. And again, you know,
Speaker 3: COVID didn't cause these problems, but they've exasperated a lot.
Speaker 3: And so you know, despite being eighteen percent of the population,
Speaker 3: Latinos make up thirty five percent of essential workers. That's
Speaker 3: healthcare workers, farm workers, drivers, delivery people, grocery store stalkers.
Speaker 3: You know, there's we over index on essential workers. Farm
Speaker 3: Workers have have kept the American food supply going going
Speaker 3: all the time. And we didn't need a pandemic to
Speaker 3: say farm workers were essential. They've always been essential. Farm
Speaker 3: Workers have always been essential to this country and the
Speaker 3: food supply of this country. Now they're forced to go
Speaker 3: to work without ppe, without hand sanitizer with very enclosed
Speaker 3: living conditions. Despite all of this, we keep going to
Speaker 3: work and I think it's just important that Momento Latino
Speaker 3: pushes for change and is around after this pandemic.
Speaker 2: Eva Longoria is not just an activist. Eva Longoria is
Speaker 2: also a producer, a very successful director, somebody who has
Speaker 2: taken the reins of not just her career but a
Speaker 2: part of the industry that she works in. One of
Speaker 2: the pieces you created that that created a lot of
Speaker 2: buzz recently has been the new ad campaign where you
Speaker 2: shot an ad from Home. I think it's a Loureal
Speaker 2: ad and it's really it's really intimate because you show
Speaker 2: your gray roots and you talk about coloring and tell
Speaker 2: me how that came to be and tell me why
Speaker 2: you felt the need to share this part of your
Speaker 2: journey with people.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, well I'm an open book. You know, people
Speaker 3: know everything about me. But I during the pandemic, I
Speaker 3: was like, I'm gonna let my grays grow. I have
Speaker 3: a full head of gray hair. I've had full head
Speaker 3: of gray hair since I was eighteen. It's like heretica,
Speaker 3: thanks Mom, And so I was like, I'm gonna I
Speaker 3: think it'd be really cool to go gray. And then
Speaker 3: about two months in, I go, yeah, this is not cool.
Speaker 3: It's not not as fun as I thought. This sucks.
Speaker 3: I'm really gray. And then Larel called and they said,
Speaker 3: would you be brave enough to color your hair on camera?
Speaker 3: And I was like yes, because I do box color
Speaker 3: all the time. I grew up doing box color. And
Speaker 3: I was like yeah, and I did it. And I
Speaker 3: think there was an appreciation for the accessibility to not
Speaker 3: only my life, but thissibility to look. We're all human
Speaker 3: and aging and grays exist, and they exist on Eva
Speaker 3: Longoria's head as well.
Speaker 2: It feels like you're not afraid to expose yourself to
Speaker 2: the public, and I mean that comes with affection and
Speaker 2: scrutiny and criticism at the same time. I mean one
Speaker 2: of the journeys I know a lot of people loved
Speaker 2: about you was were sharing your journey as a new mom.
Speaker 4: Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you in the camp of people who have found
Speaker 2: this moment in time to come with the silver lining
Speaker 2: of getting to spend more time with your young child
Speaker 2: at home. You know, for many parents as the age gap,
Speaker 2: it depends on where your kid's age is, and that
Speaker 2: determines how you feel about being stuck in the house
Speaker 2: with them. Are you having the time of your life
Speaker 2: right now? Getting to spend every.
Speaker 3: Time of my life time of my life because he
Speaker 3: is in that age, he's not in school, and he's
Speaker 3: not a baby, so he's not like just a lump
Speaker 3: of nothing. He's like so active and funny and walking
Speaker 3: and he loves mommy right now. But you know, I
Speaker 3: had so much planned this year. I was directing two features,
Speaker 3: and I was, you know, filming a new TV show,
Speaker 3: And the fact that it all stopped, like it just stopped,
Speaker 3: was a welcome pause because I haven't had a break
Speaker 3: in twenty five years. And so for me, I do
Speaker 3: approach it with the silver lining of instead of like
Speaker 3: I got to get home and bathe Santi, I gotta
Speaker 3: get home and feed him, I got it was like
Speaker 3: I get to bathe them, I get to put them
Speaker 3: to bed, I get to wake up with them. And
Speaker 3: so changing the vocabulary that you use in life is powerful.
Speaker 2: Hopefully next time I will see you in person like
Speaker 2: I normally get to see you. But until then, please
Speaker 2: keep shouting at me through the screen and I'll just
Speaker 2: imagine I can hear your voice.
Speaker 3: Okay, good and hear my laughter because you may be laughing.
Speaker 2: I will do. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Eva, my guest tonight, is an Emmy nominated co host
Speaker 4: of the View. She's also a CNN political commentator and
Speaker 4: one of the most badass latina's walking this planet. Please
Speaker 4: welcome Anna Navarro. Can look at that, a Latina guess
Speaker 4: and a Latino host to.
Speaker 5: The people that.
Speaker 4: So people at home, you're not watching OI be shown.
Speaker 4: It's okay, it's still a daily show.
Speaker 5: Listen.
Speaker 6: Part of me wants you're not to emphasize it because
Speaker 6: I'm afraid immigration might show up at any moment.
Speaker 3: Ain't get me.
Speaker 6: And then again, and then I remember Donald Trump's no
Speaker 6: longer president.
Speaker 4: We ain't getting deported, right. I love it. You start
Speaker 4: right out it, you go out it, right out of
Speaker 4: the gate. I love that about you.
Speaker 6: Listen, it's only taken ten hosts for them to have
Speaker 6: a Latino host who's colting.
Speaker 5: I wasn't calting.
Speaker 6: I'm really happy that you're here, and I always I'm
Speaker 6: always grateful to you because you do. You are so consistent.
Speaker 6: You've been consistent in your entire life and elevating voices.
Speaker 4: I have to have elevated.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Listen, it's taken ten.
Speaker 4: Let's not pock it up. Yeah yeah, I'm not going
Speaker 4: to pack this up. There's no way we can look
Speaker 4: with this great audience that we got here.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean they love it when you toss it to them.
Speaker 4: They just work to themselves on Canada anyway. You know,
Speaker 4: Republicans are so good at coming after Latinos. I mean
Speaker 4: they go to our WhatsApp, they go to our Spanish stations.
Speaker 4: They're throwing the trigger words like socialism and authoritarianism. Why
Speaker 4: are the Democrats falling behind? Why we Why are the
Speaker 4: Democrats not coming after us?
Speaker 3: Listen.
Speaker 4: I think first of all, they take it for granted, right.
Speaker 6: I think a lot of people thought, you know, they're
Speaker 6: not going to vote for Donald Trump, babe.
Speaker 5: I mean that's the.
Speaker 6: Alternative, right, They're going to vote for the Democrats. And
Speaker 6: that's not the way to do it. Also, people need
Speaker 6: to understand, and I don't know how long we have
Speaker 6: to say this, you can't show up six weeks before
Speaker 6: an election and then you have to show up. And
Speaker 6: this is the same for African Americans, for Latinos, for
Speaker 6: any group put into the group, show up at the
Speaker 6: right minute and expect to daing them and they have
Speaker 6: to fight hard against this socialism, communism type of label.
Speaker 6: I remember Joe Biden getting asked at a town hall,
Speaker 6: you see town hall. I remember him getting asked, you know,
Speaker 6: your opponent Donald Trump says that you're a socialist? Are
Speaker 6: you a socialist? And he laughed, he laughed, and he said,
Speaker 6: do I look like a socialist? Now I get where
Speaker 6: he's coming here.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 6: If somebody said to me, Anna, you know, are you
Speaker 6: a Martian? I would laugh too, right, But we need
Speaker 6: more than laughter. We need him to come back with it.
Speaker 6: We need him to fight back, you know what. We
Speaker 6: need him to say, We need him to say. Let
Speaker 6: me tell you what socialists do. They attack the free press,
Speaker 6: they attack political opponents, They attack private businesses. Guess who's
Speaker 6: doing that in America today?
Speaker 4: Right right? Right? See, gee, you know what's happening. You
Speaker 4: know what's happening, you know what time it is. That's
Speaker 4: why I love talking to you, because you know what
Speaker 4: is going on. Also, how we get divided sometimes Latino
Speaker 4: people get divided. Is it us doing it? Is it
Speaker 4: them doing it to us? I mean Nicaragan's Cubans, Colombians
Speaker 4: Puerto Ricans. Aren't we stronger together and better together?
Speaker 6: It's like, don't we know how to do math?
Speaker 4: Listen by themselves.
Speaker 6: Cubans are three and a half percent, right, Mexican Americans
Speaker 6: are eleven percent.
Speaker 5: Together, we're twenty percent.
Speaker 6: And guess what if we build alliances with other groups
Speaker 6: like African Americans, we are unstoppable.
Speaker 4: Black and brown together, man, black and brown together, we're
Speaker 4: so strong together. Why aren't we getting together? The Black
Speaker 4: cauc is, a Latino cauc is in DC.
Speaker 6: We also need the gay caucus because we need to accessorize.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, but we You know, what we need to
Speaker 6: understand as different communities is that we can't fall victim.
Speaker 6: We can't fall prey to Let's compete for the same
Speaker 6: small piece of pie. No damn it, give me a
Speaker 6: bigger piece of pie so that.
Speaker 4: We can eat.
Speaker 6: And we need to understand that we rise upwards together.
Speaker 6: It's too easy to pit us against each other, too easy,
Speaker 6: and we have to And not only did we have
Speaker 6: a problem, because not only the problem is that we
Speaker 6: get focused on, Uh, did they cross the border.
Speaker 4: Or did the border cross us?
Speaker 6: Were they political refugees or are they economic refugees? Were
Speaker 6: they rich before the revolution in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaraua
Speaker 6: or did they come here because they were poor?
Speaker 4: Who carest much?
Speaker 6: I know, John, The people who hate you, the people
Speaker 6: who hate me, don't care, Papa. They don't care how
Speaker 6: much of your DNA came from Spain or how much
Speaker 6: of it came from Indigenous America. They care that you're
Speaker 6: a Latino and they want to otherize us. So as
Speaker 6: soon as and the quicker we realize that and that
Speaker 6: we have to band together and fight against discrimination bigotry together,
Speaker 6: the more powerful we will be and not fall princes.
Speaker 4: Maybe that's why I love you, because you bring the truth.
Speaker 5: She brings it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, together, we're gonna do it, David, connected and money
Speaker 4: that sisterhood and unity. Together, we're gonna do it.
Speaker 6: And congratulations on your new show.
Speaker 5: Thank you do that.
Speaker 4: You focus on the different groups and you.
Speaker 5: Say we all yeah, we all all.
Speaker 4: Better together, stronger together. Actually, thank you Annaviaru for the best. Congraculate, amazing, amazing.
Speaker 4: Be sure check out the view weekdays on ABC. My
Speaker 4: guest tonight is an activist, author, an actor. You may
Speaker 4: know from Oranges and New Black Doom Patrol and encanto.
Speaker 4: Please welcome Diane get rid of please all right, calm down,
Speaker 4: calm down, relax y'all, relax, Hi, they're excited, they're hey, Diane.
Speaker 4: Do people believe you when you tell them that you
Speaker 4: do the voice for incanto? Because when I tell kids,
Speaker 4: nobody believes me.
Speaker 5: I have to sing the entire song.
Speaker 4: The whole song, the whole song. But then they believe you.
Speaker 5: Then they believe me. Yeah, the kids.
Speaker 7: Sorry, And I have to like do like a few
Speaker 7: lines to like flowers and then.
Speaker 4: Like I've been stuck, and then they get it. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: now I believe you. Yeah, I wasn't short, but now
Speaker 4: I got it. Yeah. No, they don't get it even
Speaker 4: when I do the voice, you know, like I don't
Speaker 4: know who I am. They don't get it because his
Speaker 4: face scares them.
Speaker 5: No, no, you got you gotta sing this. You gotta
Speaker 5: do the wrap part.
Speaker 4: Oh I forget that. That's not happening. Yeah, that's got
Speaker 4: in the pocket.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's a hard one.
Speaker 4: Now let me switch it over to something else. Your
Speaker 4: child of immigrants and every immigrant, Yes, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: I go okay, what do you want people to know
Speaker 4: about your experience growing up?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Well, when I was fourteen, my parents were separated from me.
Speaker 7: I am a child of a separated family due to deportation,
Speaker 7: and it, I mean.
Speaker 5: It ruined a lot, a lot of it ruined me.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, because you were fourteen years old. You
Speaker 4: were fourteen years old, yeah yeah yeah. And the police,
Speaker 4: the immigration I in s Ice, came and took away
Speaker 4: your parents.
Speaker 5: And that's right. And I had to grow up on
Speaker 5: my own, and.
Speaker 7: I had to make very very difficult decisions on my
Speaker 7: own throughout my entire life.
Speaker 4: You imagine a kid just left alone at fourteen to
Speaker 4: raise themselves.
Speaker 5: So crazy, not right, not okay, not okay.
Speaker 7: And I mean I've gone through a lot of therapy
Speaker 7: and I'm still going through therapy, and I'm you.
Speaker 5: Know, I thank you.
Speaker 7: I've really on my community to support me in this,
Speaker 7: and I have been very candid. I wrote a book
Speaker 7: in twenty sixteen about my experience and.
Speaker 5: Because thank you.
Speaker 7: My family and I were separated like for twenty years.
Speaker 7: I mean I've been able to go back, but they
Speaker 7: haven't been able to come here. And so you know,
Speaker 7: pandemic happened, and I was like, what am I going
Speaker 7: to do here? Like die in La by myself. So
Speaker 7: I bought a farm in the mountains of Columbia and
Speaker 7: I'm now I'm living there. My dad sadly passed away
Speaker 7: a year ago, but thank you so much, but my
Speaker 7: mom is there. I'm close to my family and no
Speaker 7: one's ever going to separate us.
Speaker 3: Every day.
Speaker 4: Now, I also hear that you're the leading actor who
Speaker 4: recently enjoyed No join a whole bunch of leading actors
Speaker 4: in the visionary line to the National Hispanic Media Coalition.
Speaker 4: I had to read that.
Speaker 5: Because that's not the leading actor.
Speaker 4: You're not the leading actor.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not the leading actor. I'm one of the actors.
Speaker 5: Oh one of them? Yes?
Speaker 4: And then and what is the mission statement of the coalition?
Speaker 5: Look, and I'll give you numbers.
Speaker 7: I'm not a math girlly, but I'll give you some numbers.
Speaker 7: In twenty twenty two, only three women of color directed
Speaker 7: a top one hundred film in the span of sixteen years. Okay,
Speaker 7: twenty one female directors. Women of color directors directed twenty
Speaker 7: one films out of.
Speaker 5: Sixteen hundred films.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: I'm not a math girly.
Speaker 4: Like I said, people of color are at least forty
Speaker 4: percent of the population, if not a lot more, because
Speaker 4: white people are only fifty nine percent of the population.
Speaker 7: Right, right, So I mean that's getting into more numbers
Speaker 7: than I rehearsed.
Speaker 4: But I'm a math boy, you are a math Well, all.
Speaker 5: I know is that that's cultural apartheipe.
Speaker 7: Yes, right, And I know that's the term that you
Speaker 7: use a lot, And I follow you and I follow
Speaker 7: your work.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Johnny Luz for doing yeah and
Speaker 5: inquiring me to do the work that I'm doing alongside you.
Speaker 4: Well, we need allies, and we need people like you.
Speaker 4: We need soldiers out there, thank you.
Speaker 7: We want representation, we want we want we want the
Speaker 7: right kind of representation. We're tired of the only things
Speaker 7: getting made about us drug lords, criminals, cops.
Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Right what we we?
Speaker 7: We want to be represented as we are, real, beautiful, curious.
Speaker 7: Uh you know, existential crises.
Speaker 8: Happen, and yes, maybe and yes maybe even mediocre and
Speaker 8: in some days sometimes right and if something.
Speaker 4: White people get to be mediocre all the time. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm jealous because white people get to fail upwards. Just
Speaker 4: peruse just I can barely succeed upwards.
Speaker 7: Agreed, Likewise, just perus through the cannon, the cannon of
Speaker 7: like mediocre films of functional white.
Speaker 5: Worlies, Jack and Jail.
Speaker 4: The cannon is riches.
Speaker 5: We deserve to be allowed.
Speaker 4: To fail on camera people and big movies. We make crap.
Speaker 4: Don't want to make crap on television, on streaming.
Speaker 5: I want to be like white people. I want to
Speaker 5: make wooly mammoth meatball crass.
Speaker 4: I get paid, I get paid for everybody paid for test.
Speaker 4: To do that, we have to work really well in
Speaker 4: sushi kitchens pezzias. We gotta cook all the food of
Speaker 4: this goddamn country.
Speaker 7: Just like we deserve to be excellent, we deserve to
Speaker 7: make crap as well and everything in between.
Speaker 5: You beg you so much.
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