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Over Her Dead Body may be a chick flick, but luckily Eva Longoria has many things going on to talk about. In addition to the new romantic comedy, she's awaiting new Desperate Housewives scripts during the strike, married to Tony Parker, opening a new restaurant and fighting a cold. That didn’t stop the trooper from making a glamorous appearance fully bedazzled in a leggy lavender designer dress.

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CraveOnline: You are a trooper, but this is the first movie that's really been all on you, isn't it?

Eva Longoria: I know, it's so funny, but I forgot that, because I did The Sentinel and I did Harsh Times but I haven't really carried a movie, I guess. Someone asked me yesterday, "How does it feel to carry a movie?", and I'm like, "Oh God, now you just scared me!" It's fun. I think it's a light and fun movie, and I think that it's a nice change in the box office right now, from all the from all the heavy Oscar stuff, all the heavy dramas, and all the blood and gore over Christmas. We tried to go to the movies so many times, and it was like Saw IV... Even I Am Legend was zombies, and I was like, "I want something fun, something that I can lose myself in."

CraveOnline: Well, I saw Alien Vs. Predator over the holidays...

Eva Longoria: So did we!

CraveOnline: Tony's idea, right?

Eva Longoria: He's a huge Alien Vs. Predator fan, and for the longest time, he's been wanting the Alien and the Predator statues. We're building our house in San Antonio, and we have a theater, and he wanted the statues for the theater. I looked everywhere for them, and I finally found them, and that's what he got for Christmas, the seven-foot Alien, and the seven-foot Predator. They're life-size, giant action figures. The Alien has the drool, and when he opened them for Christmas he was so excited, and when I saw them for the first time, I was like, "Oh my God, that's so scary! I don't want that in the house!" So, now I don't want them in the house, and I'm the one that got them.

CraveOnline: If you got him giant action figures for Christmas, what did Tony get you?

Eva Longoria: have a good husband. He got me high heels and diamonds. He got me Christian Louboutin shoes, and a diamond tennis bracelet.

CraveOnline: Are you wearing it today?

Eva Longoria: I'm not, because its getting fitted. He also got me, which was really sweet, he has three championship rings, and every time you get a championship ring, they give the wives a championship pendant which is an exact replica, so it's the exact same thing. So I was there for 2005, and for 2007, so I have two pendants, but I wasn't there for 2003, so he made me the 2003 pendant, so I would have the same three rings that he has. That was probably the best Christmas gift.

CraveOnline: Can you relate to what Jessica Simpson is going through, getting blamed for her athlete boyfriend's playing?

Eva Longoria: I think it's very odd that she's dating a number 9, and a Tony. It's so Single White Female. No, I love Jessica. You know, when I first started dating Tony, I got the same flack, and this was so many years ago that people don't remember, but if he had a bad game, it was my fault. If he got injured, it was my fault. If he had a good game, it wasn't because of me, you know? Believe me, they are not thinking of us when they are on the field, particularly Tony Romo, who has ten linemen coming at him. Do you think that he is really thinking about Jessica the moment that he is about to get sacked? You have to weather that for a while, and once people get over it, they kind of get used to you, but people, especially with the Spurs, and the Cowboys, these big, big teams, the fans feel like they own them, like, "That's OUR team. Who are you to come into our team?" So it took a while for me to be accepted by that community. It's truly a whole other subculture.