Latin Hollywood Report: Casting Special

Eva Mendes

In the Can: The sexy siren comes into her own next year with a series of high-profile roles. After a kick-start with The Spirit, which opens Christmas Day this year, Eva will appear as a prostitute opposite Nicholas Cage's crooked cop in Bad Lieutenant: Port Call of New Orleans, directed by German legend Werner Herzog, and as a contestant on a deadly gameshow in Live!, which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

Coming Soon: Eva's got her plate full with Trouble Man, a comedy co-starring Chris Tucker, in which she plays a woman who's had nothing but bad luck with men (that'll take some serious acting chops from our girl), and Queen of the South, Eva's pet project with Robert Rodriguez's ex-wife Elizabeth Avellan, about the girlfriend of a murdered Mexican drug lord who flees to Spain and sets up her own operation. Josh Hartnett and Ben Kingsley have also signed on.