Eva Longoria Weighs in on the Possibility of ‘Desperate Housewives’ Reboot
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Eva Longoria recently dished on whether she would be interested in reprising her role as Gabrielle Solis should a Desperate Housewives reboot be green-lit and what the likelihood is for fans hoping for a continuation of the beloved series.
The 48-year-old actress sat down with Mario Lopez for an all-new interview with Access Hollywood to discuss her new film, Flamin' Hot, which she directed. While chatting, the two started reminiscing about their past, including the debut of Longoria's hit drama, Desperate Housewives.
Longoria and the 49-year-old Saved by the Bell star recalled attending the show's launch party thinking that it wouldn't get picked up because it was "so different," thankfully, viewers loved it, and so did the actress. She even claimed to "miss" playing her character and admitted that she'd be the "first to sign up for a reboot."
"I miss Gabby so much! I miss being Gabby Solis," she said. However, the actress revealed that the show's creator, Marc Cherry, would never be about it. "Marc wouldn't do it, our creator. I've talked to him several times. He feels like 'why now.' Like, for the sake of a reboot. He wouldn't do it," she said.
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"He wants to know like, 'what do I have to say with these characters that we haven't already fully mined," Longoria said. "You know, I come from the generation of 24 episodes a year for a decade of our lives. Like, there's no more six-episode per season stuff that there is now. This was like 24 episodes a year. We fully mined those characters."
Joking about the future of her character's development, she said, "There was nobody on the street I was left to sleep with. Like I slept with everybody. I was like, 'What do we do now."
And while she doesn't seem too confident about a Desperate Housewives reboot, she admitted that the original series may have served its purpose, teaching her a lot about creating high-quality entertainment.
While speaking with Parade earlier this month, the actress noted that she would ask tons of questions while on the set of the drama series that helped kickstart her career.
"I used Desperate Housewives as my film school because I was on the set for 10 years and really paid attention. Our budgets were movie budgets, so I was curious and asked a lot of questions," she said. "Like, what does that do? What do you mean when you say a 50 lens? I was an annoying fly on the wall. I felt like I wasn’t reaching my creative potential, so doing more always made sense to me."
