Difficult people need not step on set with Eva Longoria!
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE at the L’Oréal suite at Hôtel Martinez during the Cannes Film Festival in France, the Desperate Housewives alum, 49, explained why she approaches new projects by considering her circle of friends first.
“I want to work with people I love,” she says, naming friends and fellow actresses Kerry Washington and Gabrielle Union, with whom she has upcoming projects.
“Life’s too short to work with a——-, and I’d much rather be surrounded by people I love, and creatives that I respect,” she continues, describing the process in which she decides what to work on next as “reverse engineering.”
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