Eva Longoria reveals surprising A-list cousinSource The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, NBC
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00:00Meryl Streep, your cousin.
00:02Yeah, she's my cousin.
00:04I know.
00:05That's the reaction I wanted. Yeah.
00:07Good. Good job.
00:08Walk me in.
00:09Well, you know, I was on that show,
00:10Dr. Gates' show, American Lives,
00:12where they do your DNA.
00:13Henry Louis Gates. He's amazing.
00:14Yes, I love him. So, if we're on the show...
00:16It's Finding Your Roots.
00:17Yeah, Finding Your Roots.
00:18And so, he usually has, like,
00:19five or six people on at the same time,
00:21and he cross-references everybody's DNA
00:23to see if we share a relative in the last 100 years.
00:26And he's like, do you want to know who you're related to?
00:28And I was like, yeah.
00:29And he's like, Meryl Streep.
00:30And I was like, oh, my God.
00:31I was like, I was so excited.
00:33And then, I was, like, at the Golden Globes
00:35or, I don't know, something backstage in the green room,
00:37and my friend was like, there's Meryl.
00:39Go say, go say you're her cousin.
00:41I'm like, I'm not going to go up to Meryl Streep
00:42and say we're cousins.
00:43It's not going to make any sense.
00:45It's not going to make any sense.
00:46Like, I don't know if she saw that part of the show.
00:47Yeah.
00:48And as I'm like, no, I'm not going to do it,
00:51I hear, cousin!
00:52Cousin!
00:54And Meryl...
00:55That's how cool...
00:56Yes.
00:57That's how cool Meryl Streep is.
00:58She's like, cousin!
00:59I was like, oh, my...