Dreams Came True for Eva Mendes

— -- Night is falling and Eva Mendes relaxes is the bar of the Soho Hotel in New York. She looks tired, and there is a reason. She has been rehearsing the whole day with Keira Knightley, with whom she is working in 'Last Night' the first film directed by screenplayer, Massy Tadjedin. This film makes true the last dream of this daughter of Cubans, who just a few month ago, spoke about her admiration for the British actress and her desire of working with her. One by one, Eva Mendes' dreams have become true: she played the character that Joan Crawford did many years ago, in the remake of 'The Women', where she co-stars with Meg Ryan and Annette Bening; she worked in 'The Spirit' directed by legendary comic book writer Frank Miller, and she also worked under the famous German director, Werner Herzog in 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of New Orleans.' Eva has also launched a bedding collection, Vida, and has traveled through Europe promoting Calvin Klein's lingerie. Although she is not desperate to be the only protagonist of a movie, Mendes knows that the opportunity will arrive sooner or later. Dreams are her thing. And prominently among them is to work with Pedro Almodóvar, one of her favorite directors.

RDS: I feel like you've been showing a lot of good work in film, but it seems that you've never had the opportunity to work in a movie where it's just about your character. Do you feel that way?

Mendes: No. I feel like I'm being given the opportunities that I should be given at this time. I think that little by little I'm proving myself to the industry, that I can act and that all these years of going to school, and I still go to acting class, that I can do it. I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself. So I've been very lucky and I just finished a film with Werner Herzog and although the character in 'We Own The Night' wasn't a well developed character it was still on the road to being more dramatic. That's not all that I want to do though either. I want to venture out into comedy which is really my true passion.