First airing in 2004 and concluding its eight-season run in 2012, one of many extra controversial plotlines was Gabby’s affair together with her teenage gardener, John (performed by Jesse Metcalfe).
As a part of Leisure Tonight‘s Retrospective sequence, Eva stated, “Jesse Metcalfe is just not the unique gardener. The unique gardener was a youthful child and he seemed youthful.”
“They recast him as a result of they’re like, ‘He actually seems to be 16!’ After which they solid Jesse and [he] was 25 when he did the present. He was 25 enjoying 16, and I used to be 27 enjoying 40,” Eva, now 48, stated. “So Jesse and I have been truly the identical age so we did not really feel bizarre, nevertheless it was positively significantly better chemistry and higher for the story that it was Jesse.”
As for her ideas now, she continued, “It was so iconic! I keep in mind Jesse and I going in all places collectively and folks nonetheless come as much as me and ask me like, ‘Inform me in regards to the gardener.’ I am like, ‘Jesse’s superb.'”
Nevertheless, Eva initially thought the present would by no means make it to air. “I keep in mind studying the script and going, ‘Effectively, this may by no means go,’ as a result of it was so completely different. It wasn’t a comedy and it wasn’t a drama. No one knew what we have been,” she stated.
Her perspective modified as soon as the solid did their first desk learn. “It was like goosebumps as a result of it was your entire solid and it was the primary time all of us had met. Instantly, Marcia [Cross], Felicity [Huffman], and I grew to become this unit and we have been in it collectively.”
“I do not know if we might do the present as we speak. I feel we would get canceled,” she added. “I imply, not canceled on TV, however like canceled in tradition as a result of it was so groundbreaking and we stated and did so many issues that have been stunning on the time. I do not know the place these girls could be now of their life.”
Eva additional stated that she has truly requested creator Marc Cherry for a reboot many occasions, which he rejected as he felt they’d “totally explored these characters” the primary time round. Eva, for her half, is enthusiastic in regards to the thought. “I would be the primary to enroll.”
You’ll be able to watch Eva’s full interview right here.
