“He yelled at me.” Eva Longoria recounts her first failure as a director

He is widely known for his role as Gabriel Solis in the series Desperate Housewives Eva Longoria is also a successful screenwriter, producer and director for eight years and almost twenty years as L’Oréal’s muse. He gave an interview on the occasion of the 77th event of the Cannes Film Festival held from May 14 to 25. Madame Figaro. An exchange during which the American star returned to one of his failures.

“I directed for the first time with Mark Cherry, creator and director Desperate Housewives. I couldn’t get a plan,” he says. “When we went to edit, he yelled at me saying it was unacceptable and that I really should have shot this shot.” What if the magazine recognizes the woman of the year 2024? USA Today Of course, he would prefer to avoid this unpleasant situation, but he knew how to learn the necessary lessons from it. “The only way to learn is to make mistakes. I don’t think we learn anything from success,” he thinks.

The only way to learn is to make mistakes

Eva Longoria

View that director Flamin’ Hot already defended a few months ago in a previous interview Madame Figaro. “If you look at my life and think: “Oh my god, he never misses a thing!” think again. I fail all the time. Failure allows us to correct or correct our trajectory. So I think it’s important to make a few missteps along the way,” he explained at the time.