While it’s been 10 years since appeared on the big screen, she’s still keeping a door open for a potential return to acting. The actress recently stopped by to chat about her debut children’s book, , when she was asked if she would ever come back to Hollywood. “I don’t know.
If there’s interesting roles. I left at a time where, 10 years ago, I kind of felt like I did it, ya know, I just worked with . He’s like the best,” she said with a laugh.
“It was such a high off my career to work with him and what we created together that I was like, this is a good time to it and just walk out. So, who knows?” ( ended abruptly after season nine, despite being popular, as co-creator and star Jerry Seinfeld felt it was the right time to end the series). Mendes appeared in dozens of other projects, including and , before starring opposite Gosling, her now husband, in 2012’s .
She later took a step back from acting to focus on raising their two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 9, and Amada Lee, 7, as well as other career endeavors. “It was like a no-brainer,” she previously in March. “I’m so lucky, and I was like, if I could have this time with my children — and I still work, I just didn’t act, because acting takes you on location.
It takes you away. It was almost just like a non-verbal agreement that it was like, ‘OK, he’s [Gosling] going to work and I’m going to work. I’m just going to work here.
’” While the couple have kept their relationship priva.