EVA MENDES has no plans to return to acting in the near future, having left the industry almost a decade ago. Mendes announced her retirement after her final appearance in the 2014 drama Lost River.
“I don’t really miss it,” Mendes told Variety, explaining that she quit because she was tired of scrounging for quality roles.
“I got tired fighting for the good roles,” she said. “There just was a point where I thought, ‘I’m going to create my own opportunities and become a producer on things and create my own material.”
“There are more opportunities for Latina actresses now, but when I bowed out 10 years ago I wasn’t being offered things that weren’t specifically Latina,” Mendes added. “It is exciting that things are different now, so who knows what I will do in the future. But right now, I’m keeping it in the home with my kids.”
Currently, she is happy with her new career as the co-owner and brand ambassador for Skura Style, described as an “award-winning lifestyle brand of innovative kitchen cleaning tools”.
Mendes was introduced to Skura sponges during the early days of the pandemic. “Like so many people, I was cleaning like a freak and overly doing it,” Mendes recalled.
“I ordered a bunch of sponges, but Skura stood out to me. The fact that it has the fade to change technology and it’s made out of polyurethane and not cellulose and it doesn’t hold onto bacteria.”
