Eva Longoria, more than a TV star

Eva Longoria Baston uses her fame as a TV star to fight for other's rights.  Brut met her at Festival de Cannes.

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00:00Hi, I'm Eva Longoria, and this is Brut.

00:18Gender inequity and gender imbalance is everywhere, all over the world,

00:22and we have to do more to make sure that women have equal access to opportunity,

00:26equal access to higher education, equal access to success.

00:31I think as women in this world, we are role models to all the younger generations,

00:37especially young women, you know, to make sure that they grow up with a sense of self-worth,

00:41self-value, self-confidence.

00:43So much has changed for women in the movie industry.

00:46You know, we are aggregating, we are gathering, we're becoming filmmakers,

00:51well, we've always been filmmakers, but we are uniting our voices

00:56so that we can have more power behind the camera,

01:00so we can tell our stories from our perspective, and I think it's really important.

01:09When Donald Trump calls us criminals and rapists, he's insulting American families.

01:16My father is not a criminal or rapist.

01:20In fact, he's a United States veteran.

01:29When Trump cruelly mocked a disabled reporter,

01:32he was also mocking my special needs sister, Lisa, and many like her.

01:38When he said that a wife who works is a very dangerous thing,

01:44he not only insulted me, he insulted my mother,

01:48who worked as a special education teacher for 30 years,

01:52raised four children while being a wife.

01:55People have to remember, 90% of the Latinos that are in America are not undocumented.

02:01They're documented, they're American citizens,

02:03so they care about jobs and the economy just like any other American.

02:06The Latino population is not a monolithic group here in the United States.

02:09We're Mexican, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban,

02:12but we have way more similarities than we do differences.

02:15Our language, our culture, our familia, our religions, most of the time.

02:20And so, for me, it's about finding that common ground,

02:25and not just with Latinos, with Americans.

02:27This is bigger than me making a TV show or a movie.

02:29I'm really concerned about the well-being of the Latino population.

02:33This is bigger than me making a TV show or a movie.

02:34I'm really concerned about the welfare of access to schooling,

02:41access to health care, immigration rights, civil rights, women's rights, voting rights.

02:46I think all of that is way more important than my brand.

02:54And nobody wants to hear pretty people complain, or celebrities complain.

02:59Who cares about your opinion, you're just pretty.

03:01And it's like, well, why can't I have an intellectual argument

03:05about immigration or health care reform, just because I'm pretty?

03:10So, not so much in acting, but in life, I can see where there's those stereotypes.