Eva Longoria is revealing why a return to Wisteria Lane may not be in the cards.
When asked who would take the “most convincing” to return for a reboot of the 2000s show on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, the 50-year-old actress admitted, “Marc Cherry, our creator. He feels like we’ve exhausted the characters.”
“Unlike Sex and the City, [which] was only like six episodes, eight episodes a year, we did 24 episodes a year for a decade,” Longoria, who played Gabrielle Solis, explained.
Representatives for Cherry did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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Desperate Housewives — which also starred Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, James Denton, Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Nicollette Sheridan and Jesse Metcalfe — ran for eight seasons from 2004 to 2012, airing 180 episodes on ABC. Meanwhile, Sex in the City ran for six seasons from 1998 to 2003, airing 94 episodes on HBO. The show spawned two feature films and a revival series, titled And Just Like That….
Of a possible return to Desperate Housewives, Longoria admitted there is one caveat. She told host Andy Cohen, “I can’t sleep with any more people on that street. I have slept with every person on the street, as did Nicollette Sheridan.”
Fellow guest Sandra Bernhard then asked Longoria if her character ever “[slept] with women?”
“No, I didn’t,” Longoria replied. “Wait, did I?”
The Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day star previously shared she would be “the first to sign up for reboot.”
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During an earlier appearance on Watch What Happens Live in June 2023, Longoria admitted that while she would be interested, her former costars might not be so keen.
“I think I’d be the only one to sign up,” she admitted.
Longoria shared that she hasn’t quite moved on from her beloved character, saying, “I miss Gabby.”
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Eva Longoria as Gabrielle Solis on ‘Desperate Housewives’.
“Gabby would be an influencer, for sure. She’d be an Instagrammer,” she teased, when asked where she thinks her character would be more than a decade after the series wrapped.
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As for Cherry, he told PEOPLE in November 2024 that “about 70,000 people” have asked him about a reboot of the series.
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The ‘Desperate Housewives’ cast is pictured with series creator Marc Cherry.
“The truth of the matter is that I have a couple of ideas to do it,” he shared while noting it was unlikely they would include the original cast.
“I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade,” he shared at the time. “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, because we owned the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand. When someone shoots a commercial on that street, I know it instantly, because I know all those houses, I know the geography. 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.’ “
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