Felicity Huffman isn’t just supporting the Desperate Housewives reboot, she is also not ruling out a very creative role on the upcoming show.
“Isn’t that great? They’re gonna do Wisteria Lane with women of color, and I am all for it,” Huffman, 62, said during an interview with Good Morning America on Wednesday, May 28. “I am gonna do craft service for it.”
With Kerry Washington executive producing the new iteration, Huffman expressed excitement, adding, “I just think it’s wonderful.”
Huffman was also asked who she would like to see play her character Lynette.
“Oh my god, I have no idea,” she replied. “I think a lot of people could do it better than I did, so I can’t wait to see it.”
Desperate Housewives, which aired on ABC from 2004 to 2012, followed a group of women living in the fictional town of Fairview as they weathered a slew of personal issues over the span of 15 years. The OG cast was made up of Huffman, Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Eva Longoria and Nicollette Sheridan.
While Desperate Housewives became a major hit, the show later made headlines for rumors of behind-the-scenes feuds between cast members. Longoria, 50, opened up about her bond with her former costars while celebrating the show’s 20-year anniversary, telling the Daily Mail in June 2024, “I talk to Felicity all the time. I talk to Marcia a lot. But the one probably I talk to most is Ricardo [Chavira], my [onscreen] husband. And Jesse [Metcalfe].”
Longoria also previously questioned the narrative about the dynamics on set, sharing on the “Armchair Expert” podcast in November 2023, “I remember even back then it was a narrative about women. Because there were all these shows with men on the air, and nobody was like, ‘They’re fighting!’”
At the time, Longoria expressed gratitude to her costars.
“They all had such a better handle on fame, on that narrative. I’m like, ‘[People] are saying we’re fighting.’ They’re like, ‘Well, that’s just a narrative they do on women because we’re over 40 on a television show.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah.’ I wasn’t even that smart to understand that,” Longoria continued. “Anything that happened outside the show, we were like, ‘What?’ We could never come up for air to really get outside of ourselves. We were only on the set. … I remember that noise being outside of us. We were in such a bubble with our crew and each other.”
The new version — titled Wisteria Lane — will build on the original Desperate Housewives series.
“A fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery, in the vein of Desperate Housewives, set around a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul-de-sac called Wisteria Lane, ” read the show’s official logline. “On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream. Beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway — but behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts, are SECRETS.”
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