Before she stepped away from onscreen work to raise her and Gosling’s daughters, “I was never in love with acting,” Mendes said in a recent interview.

Eva Mendes spoke about her acting career in a new interview and said she would only return opposite her husband Ryan Gosling.

Eva Mendes is finally getting candid about her decision to step back from acting. “I was never in love with acting,” Mendes, 50, revealed in a Thursday, October 17, interview with London’s The Sunday Times.