Teri Hatcher reprises her iconic role as Bree Van de Kamp in a playful promo for Series Mania, hinting at the possibility of a Desperate Housewives reboot. The video sees Hatcher's Bree calling up co-star Marcia Cross for advice on attending the festival, prompting speculation about a revival of the beloved ABC drama. Creator Marc Cherry has previously expressed interest in revisiting the show, envisioning a reboot set in a different decade.
Jessica is a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly, where she covers TV, movies, and pop culture. Her work has appeared in Bustle, NYLON, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and more. She lives in California with her dog.character, Bree Van de Kamp, for a promo announcing the return of this year's Series Mania, an international festival dedicated to television held annually in Lille, France, in March.
Cross appears about a minute into the video, which first introduces festival director Laurence Herszber as a version of Bree Van de Kamp and festival artistic director Frederic Lavigne as Bree's second husband Orson Hodge, originally played byIn it, Lavigne's television-obsessed housewife is intent on joining in on the festivities after seeing a commercial for the festival. She then calls up Cross on the phone: "Bree? It's Bree. I'm in a very delicate situation.
From creator Marc Cherry, the Emmy-winning series centered on the lives of a close-knit group of four housewives in idyllic suburbia. But beneath the picture-perfect facade resides secrets, crimes, and forbidden romances. The ABC drama ran for eight seasons, concluding back in 2012.Cherry revealed late last year that"about 70,000 people"
still pester him about the possibility of a reboot — and he even has"a couple of ideas" for it. It likely would not, however, involve the same cast and time period."I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade," Cherry told PEOPLE."Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane."
"That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had," said Cherry. "I know that street like the back of my hand. It was such a fun place to write for. And there's times when I go, 'You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966.'" He added, "If you do a reboot, you have to have a really good artistic reason to do it.
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