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"Eva Longoria has spoken about the importance of diversity in television and film. The actress found success after starring as Gabrielle in ABC&amp;#039;s Desperate Housewives, which wrapped up its series finale in May. Speaking at the Monte Carlo Television Festival, the actress noted that Latinos are &amp;quot;still under-represented&amp;quot; but offered suggestions on how that can be improved. &amp;quot;I think we still have a lot more work to do,&amp;quot; Longoria said. &amp;quot;In the United States we&amp;#039;re 16% of the population, but we&amp;#039;re only maybe 10% represented in television and films, so we&amp;#039;re still under-represented. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s why it&amp;#039;s important for Latinos to tell these stories like For Greater Glory. Devious Maids is another one - it&amp;#039;s about four Latina maids.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s important for us to support those shows as Latinos - to stop being a big number and start being a market and to aggregate our audience. &amp;quot;The African American community does it really well in the US - any time there&amp;#039;s a movie out people really get behind it and support it, so the Latino community has to do that.&amp;quot;  Longoria went on to say: &amp;quot;Latinos are a very factioned group in America - there&amp;#039;s Mexicans, there&amp;#039;s Cubans, there&amp;#039;s Puerto Ricans, there&amp;#039;s Central Americans, so it&amp;#039;s very different. &amp;quot;Everyone has a different view of what they want to watch and how they want to watch it - in Spanish, in English. But yeah, I think it&amp;#039;s [getting better].  &amp;quot;I think the only way to increase it is to get behind the camera - you have to write it, direct it, produce it if you want to see it come into production. I think it&amp;#039;s happening more and more.&amp;quot; For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada, which is now playing in the US, is based on the real-life events of the Cristero War in Mexico from 1926-1929. Longoria also revealed that Marc Cherry&amp;#039;s Devious Maids, where she serves as an executive producer, &amp;quot;may be going to Lifetime&amp;quot;. Watch the trailer of For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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