Do the ladies of Wisteria Lane have what it takes to make it on Bravo?
The soapy drama Desperate Housewives paved a path of its own in television when it aired on ABC from 2004 to 2012. But the impact of the series is still felt to this day thanks to one other household name: Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise.
While visiting Today With Jenna & Friends, Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher revealed that she was once approached by a producer to join the Bravo series, though she did not state which city franchise she was being asked to join.
“One of the producers – not Andy [Cohen] – zoomed in to talk to me about [joining], to kind of feel the temperature,” she recounted to Today‘s Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones. “And I said, ‘You know what? You guys, I’m just too boring. Like all I do is clean cat litter boxes and I take care of my parents.'”
She added, “I take care of my parents and I clean cat litter boxes! It’s just not filmable.”
Though she wouldn’t join the reality series herself, Hatcher maintained that the impact of Desperate Housewives is undeniable.
“I’m sure Marc Cherry, who created Desperate Housewives, sits around going, ‘I’m owed money for all of this,'” she joked.
Hatcher then told Bush Hager and Jones, “No, I don think any of it would have existed without this show. Isn’t that wild?”
Though she denied that there would ever be a Desperate Housewives reboot, Hatcher was visiting Today to promote her new Desperate Housewives rewatch podcast, Desperately Devoted, which she co-hosts with her daughter Emerson Tenney and her former on-screen daughter Andrea Bowen.
“It is three generations of women and we’re all kind of coming at it from a different point of view,” she said, adding that she always ends up praising her former co-star Marcia Cross. “Marcia comes up all the time because I’m just like, ‘She’s so good!'”
“We reflect on the show, and the people in it, and how great it was. It’s just super fun to sort of analyze all that,” Hatcher said. “It’s just so fun to see those subtleties that maybe you didn’t notice when you were in the thick of it.”