Eva Mendes Says She Was Being Offered 'Sh---y' Roles, Talks Decision to Take Time Off from Acting

Eva Mendes is opening up about her decision to step away from acting for the past decade.

The 48-year-old actress recently clapped back on Instagram and said in a comment that she never quit acting and now she’s giving an explanation as to why she hasn’t been in any movies for nearly 10 years.

While speaking on the Fitzy & Wippa radio show in Australia a couple weeks ago, Eva explained what could get her back into acting.

Click inside to find out what she said…

“Yeah, well, for a great role, I was just, you know… I took time off to be with the kids, because they were just so little. Now they’re six and our older one just turned eight. But it’s also because, you know, can I say a bad word? It was some pretty sh**** roles being offered to me and I was sick of taking them,” Eva said.

She continued, “I was sick of it, you know what, it’s not worth it. You know, if I’m going to go away for a few months and be you know, it better be something that’s damn good.”

Eva was asked about reading the bad scripts and if there’s ever one page in a script that makes up her mind about the project.

“Sometimes there’s a page. If the character is introduced, and you know what I mean? Sometimes it’s a page, but I usually try to give it the full, but sometimes halfway through, you’re just like, I’ll never, I’ll never do this,” she said.