A writer on Desperate Housewives has claimed staff would actively avoid making eye-contact with Teri Hatcher.
Desperate Housewives ran for eight seasons between 2004 and 2012, starring Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Marica Cross and Nicollette Sheridan as tightly-knit neighbours each with plenty of skeletons in their closets and bridges to burn. It was and still is delicious.
Patty Lin was among the writers and in her new memoir End Credits slated creator Marc Cherry and claimed ‘it’s a miracle that any episodes of Desperate Housewives ever got made.’
‘Every scene was written hastily by a different person,’ Lin wrote.
‘Marc would barely be involved in the first few drafts, but once the script was in semi-decent shape, he’d take it from us, climb into a golf cart, and drive off to his writing bungalow to do a pass.’
Lin added: ‘The fact that it became the hottest show on TV, won multiple awards, ran for eight years, and earned more revenue than God, boggles my mind.’
Lin didn’t recall fond memories of the cast either, particularly when it came to Hatcher, who played lead single mom Susan Mayer.
‘Usually, we’d see the cast only at table reads where we’d sit quietly at the back and try not to make eye contact with Teri Hatcher,’ she said.
Hatcher previously shut down any suggestion she there was tension between herself and the Desperate Housewives crew.
‘That crew knows I’d have jumped in front of a bus for them at any moment,’ she said.
‘I was beyond generous throughout those eight years and any crew member will tell you that, so it doesn’t matter what anybody writes.
‘I don’t really know who gave or did what. I know what I did, and I can look in the mirror at myself in a good way about the people I worked with and how much respect I had for them.’
Metro.co.uk has contacted a spokesperson for Teri Hatcher for comment on this story.
Desperate Housewives is available to stream on Disney Plus now.
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