Most actors arrive in Hollywood with nothing but a headshot and a tolerance for instant noodles. Eva Longoria arrived with one rule: Her dreams would not come at the expense of her bank account.
Before she became a multimillionaire TV star, sipping rosé on Wisteria Lane as Desperate Housewives’ Gabrielle Solis, Longoria refused to rough it like other actors, waiting tables between auditions and crashing on a friend’s couch. Instead, she was building a headhunting empire from her soap opera dressing room.
