Sundays have always been a “sacred” day for Eva Longoria. Growing up in Texas, the Golden Globe-nominated actor would go to Sunday Mass with her family before heading to one of her favorite restaurants, Luby’s , where she’d order a fried fish platter with mashed potatoes, corn, buttery dinner rolls and as much soda as she wanted. “I would still order that today,” she says.
“It was such a Sunday treat.” After more than a decade, the “ Desperate Housewives ” star is making her grand return to the small screen in “ Land of Women ,” which premiered this month on Apple TV+. Longoria plays New York socialite Gala, who’s forced to flee her comfortable life after discovering that her husband is on the run from some dangerous criminals.
To hide, Longoria’s character brings her teenage daughter (Victoria Bazúa) and aging mother (Carmen Maura) along with her to Spain’s dreamy wine country. The endearing, bilingual dramedy marks Longoria’s first time acting in Spanish. “It feels like TV is so gloom and it gives me so much anxiety,” says Longoria, who is also an executive producer on the show.
“Every series is about a dystopian future, the world is going to end, an asteroid is coming or everybody is a zombie and I’m just like, ‘ Ugh !’ I just want to escape. I want to have blue skies. I want to look at a show and say, ‘I want to go there.
’ That’s what this show is.” Although Longoria typically avoids leaving her house on Sundays — wh.
