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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Eva Longoria Reflects on Turning 50 & "Desperate Housewives" Fame

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Willie sits down with Eva Longoria to catch up on her many new projects, such as her starring role in the film "Alexander and The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip." Longoria also opens up about how her life changed after “Desperate Housewives” and her new perspective on turning 50 years old.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. Got a great one for you this week with Eva Longoria. First got to know Eva in 2004 when she played Gabrielle Solis on Desperate Housewives,

0:24.0

the show that over the course of eight seasons became kind of a national sensation,

0:28.6

a very steamy show, a spicy show, made her a household name.

0:33.6

Since then, she's had a million acting projects, but also has become a really prominent producer.

0:39.7

She's been a director in Hollywood, philanthropist, activist.

0:43.0

She kind of does it all.

0:44.4

She just turned 50 years old, and that's a topic of conversation between the two of us, because I'm about to turn 50 myself.

0:51.7

So we commiserated over that.

0:54.0

You'll hear a little bit later on.

0:55.5

We mix up a margarita in celebration of her birthday.

0:58.8

She's really talented behind the bar.

1:02.0

And in the kitchen, which brings us to one of her projects right now,

1:05.9

it's called Eva Longoria, Searching for Spain.

1:08.8

It's that CNN series started by Stanley Tucci in Italy. And in her case,

1:14.2

she's going to Spain to the roots, the foundation of her Mexican-American heritage, where her family

1:20.0

was 400 years ago, experiencing the culture and the food and the people, just as she did,

1:25.9

was searching for Mexico, a series a couple of years ago she did on CNN as well.

1:31.3

So she's got that going on.

1:33.4

She's got a new Disney Plus movie called Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad road trip.

1:39.4

It's a road trip movie based on the famous books.

1:42.9

Just so much that she has in the hopper right now and frankly always has in the hopper.

1:49.1

She does TV.

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