New Orleans Escorts: Eva Mendes on Werner Herzog, ‘Bad Lieutenant’
December 26, 2009
Eva Mendes plays a hooker with a heart of gold in “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans,” a Werner Herzog drama starring Nicolas Cage as an unhinged, crack-smoking post-Katrina cop. She’s his girlfriend, a fellow addict. And she is, in some ways, one of the most level-headed characters in the movie.
“I just saw her as a flawed person. I didn’t really see her as anything else when I first signed on,” says Mendes, on the phone from Los Angeles during a recent press event.
“I was planning on going for it: a prostitute who’s addicted to drugs and co-dependent on some guy who’s addicted to drugs – and a rogue cop! It was amazing to me. But Werner was very careful and didn’t want me to play to stereotype. He wanted me to be very elegant. I disagreed with that. The trained actress in me – the actress who still goes to class and takes my craft very seriously – I wanted to go darker and deeper and dirtier.”
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