Eva Longoria has said she thinks women need to be represented better in cartoons.
The Desperate Housewives star is hoping to shake up TV animation by voicing Rudi Wilson, a woman stumbling through motherhood in new animated comedy Mother Up!
“I’m a fan of animation and I watch Family Guy and I watch American Dad! and you always see these really flawed fathers and the really perfect mom who is trying to hold the family together because the dads, they’re just idiots,” said Eva.
“People think that sometimes women aren’t funny. And in animation, specifically, everything you see is male-oriented. It is a large male audience watching animation. But I don’t think there’s been anything women can watch that they can relate to and laugh at.”
The actress is also an executive producer of the 13-episode comedy in which Rudi, a former Manhattan music executive, resettles in suburbia with her two children.
She’s got street smarts but is fumbling in her new environment – when Rudi tries to compete in the can-you-top-this arena of kids’ birthday parties, disaster results.
Executive producer Michael Shipley – whose writing credits include Family Guy and American Dad! – was inspired by the “venting blogosphere” of mommy blogs that chronicle the perils of child-rearing, Eva revealed.
She added: “It’s a really fun, impressive way into poking fun at the different styles of parenting that moms have.”
The cast includes Jesse Camacho and Rebecca Husain as Rudi’s children Dick and Apple; Gabrielle Miller and Cle Bennett as Rudi’s pals; and Helen Taylor as perfect mum Jenny.
Asked to compare Rudi and Gabrielle Solis, her Desperate Housewives character who had her own parenting issues, Eva joked: “I think Rudi is Gaby on steroids. There’s things we can do in a more comedic way in animation that we could never do in live action.”
Longoria is animated about feminism
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