Eva Mendes' Boyfriend 4EVA

New York, NY :: 33-year-old actress Eva Mendes has had the same civilian (read: not famous) photographer boyfriend for the last couple of years (five?).  They share a home together in Hollywood Hills and were spotted yesterday afternoon in SoHo walking together hand in hand.  Cute dress, cute boots, no?  Eva's next film Ghost Rider co-starring Nicolas Cage and Wes Bentley opens February 16, 2007.  Eva talked about her role in Ghost Rider saying, "I play Roxanne Simpson. We start the movie when she's sixteen years old with Johnny Blaze, and she's so in love with him. We think we're going to run away together, and then the day he's supposed to pick me up and take me away is, of course, the day after he sold his soul to the devil, and that kind of complicates things when you do that (laughs), so he never shows up and he leaves me just heartbroken forever. I try to go on with my life, try to put my energy into my career, but it's never the same. So when I have an opportunity to interview him 13 years later, of course I take it, and then we become more in each other's lives again and this time I want answers - like every good woman does, I wanna talk!" More pictures in the gallery!