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Eva Mendes Blames That Silly Rehab Stay On Very Serious Bout Of Method Acting
Posted by Molly Friedman at 8:20 AM on May 23, 2008
What better way to annul your time spent in rehab than by pulling the old "It was just research!" card? That's what Eva Mendes is allegedly claiming, pegging her January stay at Le Cirque in Utah to an upcoming role in Queen Of The South where she'll play a female drug lord or, as some have termed the character, "the female Scarface." At the time, so-called insiders came forward saying Mendes was everything from a "closet drinker" to a prescription drug addict. Though it's a nice thought that Mendes' month-long stay alongside real-live drunk Kirsten Dunst was just a hush-hush effort to really feel like a druggie, we took a look at the timeline coupled with Mendes' past, and find the excuse weak at best:
For one thing, Mendes has already appeared in her fair share of drug movies. There was last year's We Own The Night, where she played the coke-dabbling girlfriend to Joaquin Phoenix's drug dealer with a heart of gold. And 2003's Once Upon A Time In Mexico centred around the Mexican president declaring war on a drug cartel, while that same year she played drug money-lover Denzel Washington's ex-wife in Out Of Time. As for her potentially career-boosting role in Queen, her casting was announced only two weeks ago. Until her stay in rehab, two other names were still circling around the part: Jennifer Lopez and Penelope Cruz were said to be in consideration for the part as well. We only wish they'd gone with Cruz early on and relieved Mendes of the need to method act her way all the way to Le Cirque and scandal; Cruz already nailed the powdered-up girlfriend in Blow so convincingly that we still can't help looking at her without getting the sense that she's just itching to snort the dandruff off of whatever guy has currently enlisted her as their Beard.
- EVA MENDES RESEARCHING ROLE IN REHAB? [Starpulse]
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Lala11_7
Posted 11:28 PM 27/5/08
Okay...I would buy that reasoning...but there's just one problem....
SHE CAN'T ACT!!!
I mean, it's not to say that she isn't fine as hell...but she can NOT ACT...
So, no, I'm thinking she was in rehab because she just can't say no to dudes...who give out ludes....
Lala11_7
CourageousCoward
Posted 2:07 AM 24/5/08
So what's her excuse for those toe-sucking pictures?!
CourageousCoward
FancyInk
Posted 11:55 PM 23/5/08
The Queen of the South is Arturo Perez Reverte's most soap opera-y book ... AND I LOVE IT anyway. I can't wait for this movie.
FancyInk
misterdirk
Posted 10:18 PM 23/5/08
Funny, her publiCYST at the time said, "Eva has been working hard for the past year and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to proactively attend to some personal issues that, while not critical, she felt deserved some outside professional support." Liar, liar, I wanna lick your mole. Or is THAT fake, too?!
misterdirk
SPA2TACU5
Posted 6:21 PM 23/5/08
It must've been research 'cause if she'd needed to get clean she would've just called TC. I'm sure Tom would've personally helped her to get off drugs.
SPA2TACU5
WGARefugee
Posted 3:52 PM 23/5/08
If they put Antabuse in Evian, the crops would fail and our civilization would come to an end.
WGARefugee
yvonnjanae
Posted 2:33 PM 23/5/08
Maybe next she'll try a 2-year-to-10 stay in a medium security state prison, just like any drug lordess would.
yvonnjanae
whitekidinflatbush
Posted 12:47 PM 23/5/08
@whitekidinflatbush: algerbra? Maybe I'M the one whose drinking is out of control.
whitekidinflatbush
whitekidinflatbush
Posted 12:46 PM 23/5/08
And there was also a Defamer blind item wayy back about an actress at a nightclub drinking to the point of vomiting, and many commenters pegged it as Eva Mendes. And I can remember that but not ninth grade algerbra.
whitekidinflatbush
Allie Anne
Posted 12:45 PM 23/5/08
Owen Wilson used the same excuse in early 2005 when it became public knowledge that he was attending AA. For "Wedding Crashers?" "You, Me and Dupree?" I think it's in the Hollywood handbook or something - "You can always say it's just research." Thing is, I admired Eva (and Kirsten Dunst, as well) for getting a handle on the problem before it got totally out of control but this obvious spin is disheartening.
Allie Anne
martini-shark
Posted 12:07 PM 23/5/08
In January her rep said she was dealing with "personal issues". That would have been the time to mention the upcoming role. In light of this explanation I wonder if "research for an upcoming role" is going to become the new term for "exhaustion".
martini-shark
mr.Man
Posted 11:52 AM 23/5/08
Didn't Olivier have some prescient advice for bullshitty-acting crap like this he dropped on Dustin Hoffman?
mr.Man
hughman
Posted 11:09 AM 23/5/08
yeah, we know ALL drug lords go to Le Cirque de Bloway. she'd get so much first hand experience there.
hughman