There’s no better place to find oneself than in Spain’s wine country. And no better place to shoot a television series. Just ask Eva Longoria.
After more than a decade, the actor is returning to the small screen in her first starring role with “ Land of Women ,” premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+ . Longoria, who also serves as an executive producer on the show, had been eyeing a return to acting for quite a while. She’d been spending a lot of time in Spain and found herself daydreaming of a project that would give her the chance to film there.
When she called her friend Ramón Campos, the co-creator of such global hits as “ Velvet ,” “ Las chicas del cable ” (Cable Girls) and “ Gran Hotel ,” she had one comparable title in mind: “ Under the Tuscan Sun ” — maybe in Spain’s own wine country. Campos returned a few weeks later with Sandra Barneda’s bestselling Spanish novel “La tierra de las mujeres” (Land of Women). With the novel serving as the seed of the concept, Campos and co-creators Gema R.
Neira and Paula Fernández spun out the idea of three generations of women arriving at a small town where they’re not quite as welcome as they’d foreseen. When New York socialite Gala (Longoria) finds out that her husband is on the run from some unsavory characters to whom he owes millions of dollars, she knows there’s only one place to hide: the Spanish town her mother left decades ago in a similar moment of desperation. In a fit of panic, Gal.