When I look at it now, it’s my life in grief.”īut after that the offers dried up, with Cross considering another career as a therapist. I remember being thrown a lifeline, because I was grieving so terribly. “I lost somebody in the middle of it, then they called me asking if I wanted to go back. The role of Kimberly Shaw on “Melrose Place” brought her stability, she said. They call us the outliers, but we are really the leaders.” “No one is going to say: ‘What a great idea, to go into arts.’ You don’t get a lot of credit for being an artist or for being different. I was in New York!,” she laughed, urging young actors to persevere. “I saw these things going up and down and went: ‘I think these are cockroaches.’ Then I went to the communal bathroom and went: ‘I think these are hookers.’ I was thrilled. The actor, more recently seen in the likes of “Quantico” and Netflix’s “You,” also discussed her earlier roles, studies at Juilliard and even her “tiny little room” at YMCA. But I remember that night, sitting with the girls and Marc. I crawled to the finish line in terms of my physicality. “I was exhausted because I had worked all these years, I gave birth to twins, my husband had cancer for a little while. I will leave it to the writers, to figure out something fabulous.”Ĭross, welcomed with a standing ovation, admitted she still hasn’t seen the last episode of the show created by Marc Cherry, which ended in 2012. We were 40-year-old women doing ‘DH’ and that was a big deal. We are tackling LGBTQ+ issues, although there is still a long way to go, we are talking about people of color, but – and I hate to say it – we don’t love to see older women. “I am at this funny crossroad: I am this incredibly ripe human and yet Hollywood is not particularly interested. 'Nico, 1988' Director Susanna Nicchiarelli Set to Shoot TV Series 'Fireworks' About Italian Kids Fighting Nazis and Fascists During Resistance (EXCLUSIVE)įinland's Juho Kuosmanen, Guatemala's Cesar Díaz, Brazil's Beatriz Seigner Win Seriesmakers, Which Is Renewed for a Second Edition Series Mania's Coming Next from Quebec Showcase Boosts Top Productions From La Belle Province That’s the double-edged sword of being an ‘icon.’ Everybody thinks you are that character and by the time they forget about it, you are not on anybody’s list anymore,” she said at Series Mania in Lille, France. “I always assumed that after ‘Desperate Housewives’ there will be a third act. But the zeppelin began as a balloon, and in watching the series en masse as the DVD format demands, one realizes the clever intrigue of writer Cherry's creation and the various actresses' characterizations, but fails to see perhaps why the Housewives industry has become so inflated.After playing Kimberly Shaw in “Melrose Place” and Bree Van de Kamp in “Desperate Housewives,” Marcia Cross is ready for her next iconic role. Desperate Housewives has become an industry, something greater than a mere television series. This is not meant in any way as derision, merely clarification. For in my role as critical investigator, here of a series that has been doggedly examined, praised and awarded, I feel it necessary to uncover a home truth worthy of Susan, Bree, Lynette, and Gabrielle: Desperate Housewives is a phenomenal soap opera, but little more. To some, it would be blasphemous to compare Marc Cherry's Desperate Housewives to the enjoyable but undeniably schlocky Melrose, but this I do freely and with confidence. Like the twentysomethings that shared their beds in Melrose, the housewives - divorced, depressed, and desperate - are a creatively troubled group and their many mishaps make for meaty viewing. Both locales share a propensity for the hysterical and seem popular public launderettes for those with dirty, dirty laundry. It is telling that two of the principle cast-members of Desperate Housewives - Doug Savant and Marcia Cross - were residents of Melrose Place before moving to the now famous home of housewives desperate, Wisteria Lane.
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