A recent incident at the Cannes Film Festival has cast a revealing light on the treatment of Hollywood’s working moms. Here, Eva Longoria and Gabrielle Union take a stand.
Kaav has done three carpets, maybe four. We dress her last-minute because she’s a drooler and she pukes. It takes a village to put a baby on the red carpet., which Union executive produces with Jessica Alba, babies are the norm. Kaavia’s there daily. Union credits Alba and hopes to pay the favor forward.
Motherhood is reshaping how Longoria and Union feel about being in front of the camera too. Filming the role of Dora the Explorer’s mother in this summer’s, Longoria found herself hilariously tortured by her maternal instincts as Dora swang on vines and ran into crumbling temples. “Michael, our director, is English, and he was like “Riiiiggght...but Dora has to save the movie. It can’t be Dora’s parents who save the movie.
This photo shoot is so poignant because it’s a metaphor and a symbol. We don’t take our strollers and babies on red carpets. This is what it would look like.Both women describe feeling the obligation and opportunity of intersectionality of motherhood and race. Fatherhood, too. Union’s husband basketball legend Dwyane Wade took paternity leave in the middle of his last season with the Miami Heat. “That’s just the man he is, who he’s evolved into.
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