She added: \u201cI knew I could always go back to corporate America if acting didn\u2019t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Longoria\u2019s boss at the temp agency told her to stick to the day job rather than pursue acting.<\/p>\n
She recalled: \u201cHe never understood why I didn\u2019t stay in corporate America. It just wasn\u2019t my calling, but I was really great at it.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody was surprised because I built this small business within his business, and he kept saying, \u2018Why would you want to be an actress? You\u2019re so good at business; it\u2019s a one in a million chance you\u2019re going to be successful at acting.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I said, \u2018I know \u2013 and I\u2019m the one in a million.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2004, Longoria landed her breakout role as Gabrielle Solis on all eight seasons of ABC\u2019s Desperate Housewives.<\/p>\n
After the mystery comedy-drama ended in 2012, she continued to grace the big and small screen in the likes of the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the 2018 comedy-drama movie Overboard.<\/p>\n
Longoria made her feature-length directorial debut with the 2023 comedy-drama flick Flamin\u2019 Hot.<\/p>\n
In addition to acting, she re-entered the business world, launching TV and film firm UnbeliEVAble Entertainment in 2005, and luxury tequila brand Casa Del Sol in 2021.<\/p>\n
And Longoria \u2013 who has an estimated net worth of US$80 million ($137m) \u2013 always thought she would be a success.<\/p>\n
In March, the star told People: \u201cSo many people have guided me in my life. I have nine aunts, three sisters and 18 female cousins. I was surrounded by smart, independent and successful women.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t have to look far to see the woman I wanted to be. I was like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m going to be like my sisters. I\u2019m going to be like my Mom.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThat instilled in me this idea that I always knew I would be successful. I didn\u2019t know what I was going to do \u2013 whether I would be a dentist or a lawyer \u2013 but I knew I\u2019d be successful. And that came from the community around me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added: \u201cI knew I could always go back to corporate America if acting didn\u2019t work out.\u201d Longoria\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[95,2046,156,68687,195942,195941,111,139,69,90,34751,187864,8466,47895,223,6123,87539,4741],"class_list":{"0":"post-375486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-career","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-eva","12":"tag-headhunter","13":"tag-longoria","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-on","18":"tag-parttime","19":"tag-restless","20":"tag-second","21":"tag-secretly","22":"tag-the","23":"tag-while","24":"tag-worked","25":"tag-young"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}