Eva Longoria obviously doesn’t have enough to do: now she’s exec producing and starring in a new animated series on Hulu, Mother Up!, about a struggling, street-smart mom. The first episode premiered on November 6’ two episodes are already available on Hulu.
“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,” Longoria told the press recently. She teamed up with Michael Shipley, who worked on the aforementioned Dad and Guy, to tell the story of Rudi Wilson, a former Manhattan music executive, resettles in suburbia with her two children, where she habitually overcompensates and creates disaster in the process.
A character like Rudi is overdue, Longoria said. “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,” she said. “But I don’t think there’s been anything women can watch that they can relate to and laugh at.”
Here’s a quick one-minute glimpse behind the scenes at Mother Up! You can see the episodes here.
