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Eva Mendes says she and her partner Ryan Gosling had a mutual, non-verbal agreement that he would work on movies and she would stay at home to look after their two daughters.
Speaking with the Today show in the U.S., Mendes, 50, says it was a “no brainer” to put her Hollywood career on hold while she spent more time with her young children Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7.
“It was almost just like a non-verbal agreement [between Ryan and I] that it was like, ‘OK, he’s going to work and I’m going to work, I’m just going to work here [at home],’” Mendes says. “I still worked, I just didn’t act because acting takes you on locations, it takes you away.”
Mendes—who is now spruiking a new cleaning product brand called Skura—met and fell in love with Gosling on the set of the 2012 film The Place Beyond the Pines, a high-octane tale of a motorcycle stunt rider who turns to robbing banks to provide for his former partner and their newborn.
“I have never experienced anything like that,” Mendes says. “The way [Ryan] works, his commitment to his craft, how he wants to make everything as best it could be, and that means making his co-stars as best as they could be…But unfortunately, or fortunately, there is only one Ryan. So, I pretty much stopped just acting after that.”
Since her role in the Place Beyond The Pines 12 years ago, Mendes has had six acting roles.
The couple’s daughters attended a dress rehearsal of the 2024 Academy Awards ceremony so that they could see there dad perform his now iconic song “I’m Just Ken.”
“It was so fun because [my daughters] came to the dress rehearsal the day before and so they were in the front row,” Gosling told People. “They gave me some tips and some notes, all great notes. They are such a huge part of this for me…it was my girls’ interest in Barbie and disinterest in Ken that got me into this in the first place. It was beautiful to have them there at the end.”
Of the performance, Mendes says, “[Ryan] went and he did his job. He just happens to be really good at his job, and he did it and he came home.”
