If actress Eva Mendes ever quits her day job, she can slide right into a gig as a waitress at a diner. The Times Union of Albany reports (http://bit.ly/q5Kcri ) Mendes picked up some pointers earlier this month while working alongside the staff at the Route 7 Diner in suburban Albany. Most of the scenes for her new movie — "The Place Beyond the Pines" — are being filmed in nearby Schenectady.
She returned earlier this week for scenes shot inside the diner, along with co-stars Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper. Gosling plays a motorcycle stunt rider who starts robbing banks after he learns he has fathered a child with Mendes. Cooper plays the detective out to catch him. Diner manager Colleen Noble says only a few of the restaurant's customers recognized Mendes when she worked a four-hour shift.