Eva Longoria Denies Feuding With ‘Desperate Housewives’ Costars

Desperate Housewives was chock-full of drama, however Eva Longoria stated rumors of offscreen rigidity on Wisteria Lane had been overblown.

Longoria, 48, addressed the hypothesis throughout an interview on the Monday, November 27, episode of Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast. Shepard, additionally 48, requested how a lot of the on-set feuding was “factual” and the way a lot “we would now see as just, like, this narrative about women, that there’s no way these women could get along.”

According to Longoria, not one of the feud dialogue was factual. “I remember even back then it was a narrative about women,” she defined. “Because there were all these shows with men on the air, and nobody was like, ‘They’re fighting!’”

Longoria went on to say that her costars Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Teri Hatcher helped her address the elevated highlight, as they’d all been on “hit shows” up to now.

“They all had such a better handle on fame, on that narrative,” Longoria recalled. “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, ‘Yeahhh.’ I wasn’t even that smart to understand that.”

Longoria went on to notice that she and her castmates “were working so hard” on Desperate Housewives that they hardly ever seen what was happening off-camera. “Anything that happened outside the show, we were like, ‘What?’ We could never come up for air to really get outside of ourselves,” she stated. “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 Flamin’ Hot director stated that their schedule was so intense that they may barely even benefit from the highs that got here with the worldwide success of the present, which ran on ABC from 2004 to 2012.

Eva Longoria Denies Feuding With Desperate Housewives Costars — ‘Desperate Housewives’ solid Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan, Felicity Huffman, Teri Hatcher and Marcia Cross. INFGoff.com/Instar Images

“All that stuff of ‘we’re fighting,’ even like, ‘No. 1 show, you’re amazing’ — good and bad, it didn’t penetrate, because we were working, and I was exhausted,” Longoria remembered, including that she usually forgets what number of tales there have been concerning the girls feuding throughout filming. “People ask me that a lot. ‘Were you guys really fighting?’” she stated. “And I was like, ‘God, I forgot that was a thing.’ It was a thing. It was a big thing.”

Longoria beforehand revealed that she was “bullied” on the set of Desperate Housewives by a colleague however didn’t determine the alleged perpetrator. She did, nevertheless, be aware that Huffman, 60, stepped in to cease the conduct.

“I dreaded the days I had to work with that person because it was pure torture. Until one day, Felicity told the bully ‘enough’ and it all stopped,” Longoria wrote in 2019 in a letter of assist for Huffman submitted whereas she was on trial for her position within the faculty admissions scandal. “Felicity could feel that I was riddled with anxiety even though I never complained or mentioned the abuse to anyone. … I know I would not have survived those 10 years if it wasn’t for the friendship of Felicity.”

Huffman pleaded responsible to sincere companies fraud in May 2019 and served 12 days in jail. She was additionally fined $30,000 and ordered to finish 250 hours of group service.

While Longoria downplayed on-set drama with Shepard, her former costar Nicollette Sheridan made headlines for submitting a lawsuit in opposition to Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry. After Sheridan’s character, Edie Britt, was killed off in season 5, Sheridan, 60, claimed that Cherry, 61, wrote her off the present after she complained about an alleged incident the place he hit her within the head.