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Eva Longoria is promoting her new Apple TV+ show, Land of Women, this week, but it seems that everyone still wants to talk about the show that made her famous, Desperate Housewives. The 49-year-old actress may have reignited the rumored feud between the cast and Teri Hatcher with one very revealing statement.
Longoria was asked by the Daily Mail which cast members from the ABC series, which ended in 2012, that she still speaks to. “I talk to Felicity [Huffman] all the time. I talk to Marcia [Cross] a lot, but the one probably I talk to most is Ricardo [Antonio Chavira], Javier, my husband. And Jesse [Metcalfe],” she revealed. The rift seemed to begin with the May 2005 Vanity Fair issue with a cover story about Longoria, Cross, Huffman, Hatcher, and then-series regular Nicollette Sheridan. The drama unfolded during the photoshoot where there were arguments over wardrobe, the center spot in the snapshot, and an overeager ABC publicist managing the women that day. “My actors were f**king miserable all day,” he said after the magazine finally got their shot.
The Flamin’ Hot director recalled that time in her life on the Armchair Expert podcast. She described the situation as “a narrative about women” and how the media ran with the stereotypical catfight story. “They all had such a better handle on fame, on that narrative. I’m like ‘You guys, they’re saying we’re fighting,'” she said to her co-stars Hatcher, Huffman, and Cross. “And they’re like ‘Yeah, well that’s just a narrative they do on women because we’re over 40 in a television show.'” However, she did admit they didn’t always get along. “People ask me that a lot, like, ‘Were you guys really fighting?’ and I was like ‘God, I forgot that was a thing,'” she shared. “It was a thing. It was a big thing!”
Patty Lin, a former writer on Desperate Housewives, blamed the chaotic atmosphere on the show’s creator, Marc Cherry. “Every scene was written hastily by a different person. Marc would barely be involved in the first few drafts, but once the script was in semi-decent shape, he’d take it from us, climb into a golf cart, and drive off to his writing bungalow to do a pass. With this wildly inefficient system, it’s a miracle that any episodes of Desperate Housewives ever got made,” she wrote in her book, End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood. The crew also didn’t interact with the cast that much. “Usually, we’d see the cast only at table reads where we’d sit quietly at the back and try not to make eye contact with Teri Hatcher,” Lin revealed.
In 2018, Hatcher seemed to have forgotten all of the negativity thrown her way and told ITV’s Loose Women that she was open to a return to the series. “I’d be the first person [to return]. I never wanted it to be over. I love those characters,” she said. “I think the women would probably all do it.” Even though she admitted she wasn’t really in touch with her former co-stars, she confidently shared that she’s “definitely supportive of everything that we’re all off and doing.” Maybe a Desperate Housewives reconciliation is possible in the future.
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