Eva Mendes sparkles in head-to-toe gold as she shares behind-the-scenes video from photo shoot: ‘Life is a carnival’

Eva Mendes looked incredible in gold as she shared a sizzling BTS video from a magazine shoot.

The actress, 50, beamed in a metallic ensemble as she posed for People’s Beautiful Issue.

“La vida is un carnival,” Mendes wrote in the caption, which translates to, “Life is a carnival.”

She wore two gold lamé looks in the clip, including a dress and a long button-down shirt with culottes.

‘”Cuban golden girls!” That’s what I replied when @people asked me to describe my style now,” she wrote photos from the shoot last weekend.

‘Can’t you imagine that? [Blanche] in one of these attacks?!” Mendes added, referring to the character Rue McClanahan played on the ’80s sitcom.

“La vida is un carnival,” Mendes wrote in the caption, which translates to: “Life is a carnival”

Mendes talked about her new era of style: “I like flowy [dresses]my hair up and wearing big hoops.

‘I don’t feel the need to show anything anymore. I am fine. I feel like I did that early on, and I look back and say, “Why did I do that? Oh, my God.” Maybe it’s because I have girls.’

The Hitch star also made a nod to partner Ryan Gosling’s new film, The Fall Guy, in another post, sharing one of her photos he rocks the screen with a matching gold cowboy look.

‘Do you believe in a happy ending? Aliana and Space Cowboy finally together. When you know, you know….” she wrote, referring to characters in the film.

Mendes and Gosling, 43, have been together since they both starred in The Place Beyond the Pines in 2012, and they share two daughters.

After announcing her debut children’s book Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries in February, Gosling showed his support by wearing a T-shirt for the book during the Fall Guy press tour last month.

She told People that Gosling supports her ‘in all waysafter telling Men’s Health that Mendes is “obviously” one of his heroes.

Mendes previously said that she and Gosling had made a “non-verbal agreement” that she would take a step back from acting and become a “full-time mother.”

She wore two gold lamé looks in the clip, including a dress and a long button-down shirt with culottes

The Hitch star also made a nod to partner Ryan Gosling’s new film, The Fall Guy, in another post, sharing one of her photos wearing a matching gold cowboy look that he’s rocking on screen

Mendes and Gosling, 43, have been together since they both starred in The Place Beyond the Pines in 2012, and they share two daughters

“It was a no-brainer,” she explained on Today. “I’ve been so lucky, and I thought, if I can have this time with my kids… and I’m still working, I just haven’t been acting, because acting takes you to locations, it takes you.”

The actress hasn’t acted in a film since 2014’s Lost River, although she recently voiced a character on her daughters’ favorite show Bluey.

Gosling revealed that their kids “didn’t like it” and asked to “fast-forward through that part,” adding, “They don’t care.”

Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries is on sale September 17 and The Fall Guy is in theaters now.