Actress Eva Longoria on the red carpet of the Cannes Festival, May 14, 2025. (Credit: Reuters)
They know each other. They exchange glances but not smiles. In an elevator at Nice Airport's Terminal 2, Karima* is unperturbed.Facing her, Eva Longoria and her entourage, stuck in the same elevator by chance, don't bother to respond to her cordial greeting. "I knew her well, having worked with her regularly for nearly ten years," explains the freelance makeup artist, intrigued by the unusual reaction of the notoriously warm "desperate housewife."Both present in Cannes for very different reasons — the first polished up five young actresses before the red carpet, the second maintaining the after-sales service of her partnership with L'Oréal and promoting a food docu-series for CNN — the fifty-somethings, once accomplices in front of the Martinez mirror, haven't spoken in a year and a half."It all...
They know each other. They exchange glances but not smiles. In an elevator at Nice Airport's Terminal 2, Karima* is unperturbed.Facing her, Eva Longoria and her entourage, stuck in the same elevator by chance, don't bother to respond to her cordial greeting. "I knew her well, having worked with her regularly for nearly ten years," explains the freelance makeup artist, intrigued by the unusual reaction of the notoriously warm "desperate housewife."Both present in Cannes for very different reasons — the first polished up five young actresses before the red carpet, the second maintaining the after-sales service of her partnership with L'Oréal and promoting a food docu-series for CNN — the fifty-somethings, once accomplices in front of the Martinez mirror, haven't spoken in a year and a half."It...