Eva Longoria has been cast in Paramount Players’ live-action feature of Nickelodeon’s “Dora the Explorer,” playing Elena, Dora’s mother.
The James Bobin-directed movie hits theaters on Aug. 2, 2019, and is already in production over in Australia with cast members Isabela Moner (as Dora), Eugenio Derbez, Micke Moreno, Nicholas Coombe, Madeleine Madden, Adriana Barraza and Temuera Morrison.
In the movie, the young explorer takes on high school, and with her new pack of friends as well as her sidekick, the monkey Boots, and her cousin Diego, leads them on a “Goonies”-esque quest to save her parents and solve the impossible mystery behind a lost Inca civilization.
Longoria recently starred in LD Entertainment’s “Dog Days” and Pantelion/MGM’s “Overboard.”
The former “Desperate Housewives,” star via her production company UnbeliEVAble Entertainment, is executive producing the ABC drama series “Grand Hotel” scheduled for a midseason release as well as the recently announced series “Ambassador,” which received a big put pilot commitment from ABC.
She was also the EP on Lifetime’s “Devious Maids” and NBC comedy “Telenovela,” in which she also starred.