With a new group of housewives moving into Wisteria Lane, Kyle MacLachlan is open to returning to the neighborhood.
The Desperate Housewives alum recently said he would potentially reprise his role as deadbeat husband Orson Hodge or “something completely new” in a reboot of the Marc Cherry comedy-drama, which ran for eight seasons on ABC from 2004 to 2012.
“That’d be fun,” MacLachlan told People. “I mean, Wisteria Lane still exists on the Universal back lot. It’s part of the tour!”
MacLachlan debuted as Bree’s (Marcia Cross) love interest and eventual second husband Orson toward the end of Season 2 in 2006, becoming a key character in Season 3 regarding the mystery of his first wife’s disappearance.
“If for Desperate Housewives, if that were to come back — […] and if they would even want me to come back — I’d have to look at the role and kind of get a sense of what they’re thinking about for the character,” he explained.
Marcia Cross and Kyle MacLachlan in ‘Desperate Housewives’ (Ron Tom/ABC/Courtesy Everett Collection)
“So I would approach it like if it were something completely new and weigh how I feel about the role, and the character, and the process and everything, you know?” added MacLachlan. “I would treat it like it were, you know, something else [new] that had come to me and make my judgment on that.”
The Golden Globe winner, who recently passed on reprising his Sex and the City role, explained that he also approached his 2017 return to Twin Peaks as Dale Cooper with a similar method after creator David Lynch “decided to not really pick it up from where we left off and to create a completely different journey for the character. And I got to do a couple [of] different characters in the reboot.”
Following Deadline’s exclusive report, Kerry Washington confirmed in May that her Onyx Collective offshoot Wisteria Lane is in development, “inspired” by Desperate Housewives.
Written by Natalie Chaidez, Wisteria Lane is described as a fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery in the vein of Desperate Housewives, set among a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a picture-perfect cul de sac called Wisteria Lane. On the surface, all the Wisteria neighbors are living the dream: beautiful homes, gorgeous families, shiny SUVs in the driveway. But behind those white picket fences and smiling Insta posts are secrets.
Desperate Housewives starred Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross and Nicollette Sheridan as five women — mostly friends — living on Wisteria Lane, who begin uncovering dark secrets after their neighbor Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong) kills herself.
