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Q&A with Teri Hatcher - Radio Times, January 2005 |
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The star of Desperate Housewives chatted to Benji Wilson.
BW: Your character in Desperate Housewives is a single mum and a recent divorcee. You're a single mum and recent divorcee, too. Any other similarities?
TH: The neuroses Susan has are fairly easy to relate to, although I think I've probably evolved past … well, some of them. It's nice to feel that there's a part of you that's connected, but Susan and I are in a pretty different place in our lives.
Susan's also trying to date, but failing. And you?
I'm not even trying. There isn't really space for it. I don't have a boyfriend and I don't really go out at all.
Awwww…
I'm not sad about it! There's maybe two evenings max I could go out, and for the most part I would like to spend those with my girlfriends. Yesterday I had four hours free - I got a massage and watched a movie by myself. And I kind of enjoyed it. When somebody comes along it'll make a difference, but right now, work and motherhood are more than enough.
We hear rumours that you've already had to get naked in front of the whole crew.
Yes, I was pretty close to naked in front of the entire crew. I have a scene where my ex comes over to the house and I'm in the shower. He won't go away, so I answer the door dripping wet. He barges in, we have this conversation that escalates into a fight, he leaves, I follow him, he slams his car door on my towel and drives off. I lose my towel, lock myself out of the house and, y'know, comedy ensues - with some well-placed foliage.
Mind you, judging by the pilot episode, that's not the only time you get humiliated.
Well, I think they've decided that I do humiliation well, or at least put up with it. But I'm a good sport and I love the chance to do physical comedy.
So Desperate Housewives is basically a comedy?
Not really. What makes it work is it all comes from honest, vulnerable, insecure places - so it isn't like a sitcom. It's more like real people showing distilled strange behaviour. You might say, "That could happen to me," even though it hasn't, but it could. So it's real.
We've established that there are similarities between you and [Susan], so one final question: are you a desperate housewife?
I get up at six, make the lunch, clean the cat litter box, feed the dog, make breakfast, drive 45 minutes to school, an hour home in the traffic, and when I get home I try to pull myself together so that I can look like an attractive human being and go on an audition and come to work. There are so many hats that you have to wear every single day, and I think there's a sadness and a realness and a comedy there - that is desperate!
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