With some new housewives moving onto one of TV’s most famous streets, Felicity Huffman is welcoming them to the neighborhood.
The Oscar nominee, who portrayed Lynette Scavo on ABC‘s Desperate Housewivesrecently reacted to news of Kerry Washington‘s Onyx Collective offshoot Wisteria Lanewhich Deadline exclusively announced last month.
“Isn’t that great? They’re gonna do Wisteria Lane with women of color, and I am all for it,” she said on Good Morning Americabefore joking: “I am gonna do craft service for it. But I just think it’s wonderful, and I’m a huge fan of Kerry’s.”
Huffman had no suggestions on who should take over her role as Lynette, an overworked stay-at-home mother of five children who longs for the workplace and eventually struggles with both alcoholism and cancer during the show’s eight-season run from 2004 to 2012.
“Oh my god, I have no idea,” said Huffman. “I think a lot of people could do it better than I did, so I can’t wait to see it.”
(L-R): Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Nicollette Sheridan, Teri Hatcher and Eva Longoria in ‘Desperate Housewives’
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Following Deadline’s exclusive report, Washington confirmed that Wisteria Lane is in development, “inspired” by the Marc Cherry comedy-drama.
Written by Natalie Chaidez, Wisteria Lane is described as a fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery in the vein of Desperate Housewivesset among a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called Wisteria Lane. 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.
Desperate Housewives starred Huffman, Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross and Nicollette Sheridan as five women — mostly friends — living on Wisteria Lane, who begin uncovering dark secrets after their neighbor Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) kills herself.
