Interesting how things color my perception. I thought she was talking about how her professional employment headhunter clients might not understand her being a soap actress.
My subconscious mistakenly "heard" that because I read EB's tweet before watching the clip.

But she didn't say that!
I watched the clip again, and she didn't even say "soap actress".  she said "dumb actress".   

She didn't want her clients to know she was on Y&R
because that would mean she was an actress.
She didn't want her clients to know she was ANY kind of actress in ANY show/film/play, because she thought her clients would have the stereotype that actresses are dumb.

But again, as I said earlier in this thread, she wasn't denigrating her acting job. She was afraid her *clients* would denigrate it.

Edited March 20, 20232 yr by janea4old

So I like both Eric Braeden and Eva Longoria. EB's Twitter feed, with its copious use of YA GOT DAT-style exclamation marks, is always a hoot. I was sort-of prepared to take EB's side because he seems pretty together on his social media.

Having said that... he overreacted, for real. EL was about maintaining her day job so she kept quiet about her acting. I do think he 'read' her feelings on the subject -- she does seem lowkey embarrassed about the soap clip, and that's what he reacted to. But his 4-5 Tweets went a little far. Jeez, she wasn't Eileen Davidson, but she wasn't that bad as Isabella. Obviously comedy is more her fit.

Also: Robert Di Nero (sic) was on soaps?? 😅

So being an actress was dumb, then QUIT, no one was forcing her to be a "dumb actress" if she was making more as a HH back then, then QUIT 

Oh snap, People has even put this on their website.

Y&R's Eric Braeden Lays Into Eva Longoria for 'Derogatory' Soap Remarks (people.com)

That’s brave coming from someone that mumbles his lines worse than Maurice Bernard (Sonny on GH) lol No offense ofc.

But the way he try’s to trash her just shows his lack of class.

He even disses “Desperate Housewife’s” and their dialogue.. Because Victor Newman’s lines are so Hollywood. Don’t make me laugh. 

I loved Psycho Isabella.

She was lucky to get on that Housewife show? Haha didn’t EB tried primetime and didn’t made it further then being a guest villain or a guest character on some shows? Bro tried branching out and flopped and got stuck for 40-50 years on daytime while Eva had a primetime gig for 8 straight years. I think she was more successful. She then landed a Reccuring gig on B-99. She even was an executive producer on Devious Maids  for 4 whole seasons ! And did documentaries and stuff.

She didn’t even said something bad and he felt triggered coz he got reminded that he is still stuck on a boring soap opera that lost it’s touch years ago. Good for him to have a secure paycheck. 

Eva said she wanted to be an actress, but got a job until her acting career took off.

She kept her day job because her role on Y & R didn't pay enough to not work her other job...so she did both jobs.  Cost of living is high in LA so I don't blame her for keeping both jobs.  

Maybe she could have phrased it differently, but EB is known to bully people.  And I think he was jealous she found lasting success outside daytime.

And he used to not know his lines back in the day (if stories are true that Peter Bergman told him to know his line hence leading to their confrontation years ago).

 

14 hours ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

  Haha didn’t EB tried primetime and didn’t made it further then being a guest villain or a guest character on some shows?  

His longest running regular role was 2 seasons of Rat Patrol. Otherwise he did a ton of guest parts.

13 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

 

And he used to not know his lines back in the day (if stories are true that Peter Bergman told him to know his line hence leading to their confrontation years ago).

And YR used cue cards back in the day. Actors who did both YR and the P&G soaps said the actors on the P&G soaps were the more professional and better actors.

Edited March 21, 20232 yr by Soapsuds

Eric was wrong and needs to apologize. That's it!

We all enjoy when Eric does his thing for a righteous cause. This was not it. Eva has always been humble about the soaps and her origins (soaps, flipping burgers at Wendy's, etc).

On 3/20/2023 at 12:10 AM, Paul Raven said:

Team Eva on this one.

Firstly springing the soap clip . Intentionally choosing a scene to underline the narrative that soaps are ridiculous. It hardly showed Eva at all -there would have been plenty of scenes that would have shown her in a better light.

So she had aright to be embarassed. Then the story about having another job made sense to me. In fact maybe newbie soap actors should take a leaf and have other stuff on the go to ensure some financial security. I don't think she was putting the show down, just acknowledging it was better to keep things separate.

Eric needs to put a pin in it. Considering that for the past few years he has been mumbling and stumbling ,reading his lines off menus, phones etc. He's damn lucky to still be a working actor. I'm sure that as a younger actor he would have called out such an older actor reading lines that way. He totally overreacted to what she said.

Didn't he go off a few years back at some actor from 'How I Met Your Mother"?

And I don't recall Robert de Niro starting on soaps...

Team Eva. Everything she said made sense. 

I wouldn't be surprised if Braeden was butt hurt because she implied soap actors don't make a lot of money. Relax diva, she was a young newbie then; you're a veteran who demands special treatment (trust me); we KNOW you make more than what she did. 

Normally EB's Twitter rants give me life but I don't think he should have ranted in this case. I didn't get the impression that Eva Longoria was dissing her time on Y&R.

Yeah I’m sorry…Eric needs to apologize and get banned from Twitter for a month. It won’t happen but it should.