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Eva Longoria Opens Up About the Uphill Battle She Faces as a Latina Director · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Eva Longoria makes her directorial debut with Flaming Hot, the
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  Speaker 2: true story of the Latino Frido le Janitor who invented
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  Speaker 2: flaming Hot Dorito's. It's shocking to say, but even in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, a film made by a Latina director
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  Speaker 2: is still almost unheard of, and Eva was well aware
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  Speaker 2: of that while making the project. She tells Variety, I
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  Speaker 2: felt the weight of my community and the weights of
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  Speaker 2: every female director. We don't get a lot of bites
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  Speaker 2: at the Apple. When was the last Latina directed studio film.
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  Speaker 2: We can't get a movie every twenty years. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is if this movie fails, people say Latinos stories don't work.
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  Speaker 2: Our female directors really don't cut it. We don't get
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  Speaker 2: a lot of app bats. That's the problem. I get
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  Speaker 2: one chance, so I worked twice as hard, twice as fast,
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  Speaker 2: twice as cheap.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it fueled me. I was determined. Flaming Hot
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  Speaker 3: in theaters today.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.