Eva Longoria Bastón wasn’t necessarily looking to direct a boxing documentary as her next project until, that is, Oscar De la Hoya approached with an interesting take. The end result: “La Guerra Civil.”
“It was all serendipitous. I’ve known Oscar for 25 years; we’ve been friends for an eternity,” Longoria Bastón tells Sharon Waxman at TheWrap’s Sundance Studio.
“He said, ‘Hey, you know, there’s this 25th anniversary of this epic fight that happened. We want to do a documentary about it. You want to do it?” Longoria Bastón remembered. “I was like, ‘Uh… I don’t… I don’t want to do, like, a boxing doc.”