Teri Hatcher, Andrea Bowen and Emerson Tenney

Teri Hatcher, Andrea Bowen and Emerson Tenney join us to talk new Desperate Housewives podcast Desperately Devoted and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fun with Mario Lopez. Hi, so bro, Mario Lopez joining
me right now the host of the new podcast Desperately
Devoted Terry Hatcher, Andrea Bowen and Emerson Teddy, how are you, ladies.
We're great, Thank you for taking the time. So in
the new podcast, you're going to be rewatching Desperate Housewives,

(00:20):
the iconic show. But the twist here, Terry, you have
your real life daughter Emerson as a host and your
TV daughter from the series, Andrea as the other hosts.
That's a fun dynamic.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Gosh, isn't that great. I'm surrounded by brilliant women.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Andrea actually kind of brought the idea to me, maybe
with thinking that her and I would do it together,
and then I was the one that said, like, wouldn't
it be amazing? Since Emerson is a writer, she's not
an actor, and she's also never seen it before, and
so she's, you know, twenty seven, We've got that generation.
We have Andrew who's thirty five, and me who's eighty please,

(01:00):
and so we have all these different points of view
of this iconic show. And plus we love each other,
so we're really excited.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
That's so much fun and it's so cool. I can't believe, though, Emerson,
it is funny because I feel really old. I remember
when you were a little little girl.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's crazy all grown up now.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Time goes by so quick. I can't believe it's the
first time you're got to watch this series. Was that
a deliberate move on your part?

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Well, you know, I think I was way too young
to watch it when it first came out.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I mean I was seven when the pilot aired.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
Why I remember you yeah, and then and then you know,
there wasn't streaming for a while. I feel like it
was really during COVID in twenty twenty when a lot
of my friends from college. I think it was when
Despert Housewives first came out, either on Netflix or maybe
it was Hulu, and I had all these friends from
college who you know, had not really grown up necessarily
watching the show reaching out to me, going.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Wait, is this Your mom is your mom?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Susan your mom who came to parents' weekend when we
were in college. And so when this opportune maybe presented itself,
it was such an easy yes because I am a screenwriter.
It is such an iconic piece of television. Not to
mention that my mom is amazing and it's so fun
to get to celebrate her and watch her achievements in
that show.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
And yeah, it's it's been a blast.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
I mean we're only into it, well I'm only into
the first first season a little ways, but I'm loving it.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I know your mom is fantastic in it. And what
are your thoughts, Terry and looking back and rewatching it now?

Speaker 3 (02:27):
And well I also like Andrea, I think both of
us obviously we've seen it before, but not.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
In over decade.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, sure, And I have to say I was so
I don't even know the I mean shock and awe.
Really when I just just the pilot, just the first
two minutes of the pilot, before any of the main
actors even enter the scene, really just the street itself
and the whole like kind of Mary Alice set up

(02:57):
when she does what she does. I mean, you can't
watch you have spoiler If you have spoiler alerts on
a show that's twenty one years old.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
You see, you're good.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
You're good.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
But I really felt like it. The jumping off point
was with Steria. Lane is a big star and the
writing is so amazing, and every single actor in it
is just I just I can't get over it. It's
like watching a show that I wasn't in, Like I
so it really is holding up.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
At least so far.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
And uh, I'm we're really enjoying it, and you know, hindsight,
it just it just it's just joy. I mean, these
guys every every episode when we do when we do
our podcast, we talk about our individual highlights and sometimes
we'll say, like, what line jumped out at us? What
line of dialogue jumped out at us the most? And

(03:53):
for me, it's just constant. It's to the point, now, let's.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Stop talking about this line. Yeah, well, yeah, it is true.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
I won't say the line because I've been saying. But
everything I pick it's Marcia. I just keep going back to,
like three is so amazing. I just, I mean, everyone's amazing,
but I think that character and Marsha's performance of it
is I don't know, it's just it's just genius.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
And how quickly too, I mean we talk about this
because we mentioned, as Emerson said, we've only we're only
at the kind of beginning of the first season, but
so quickly watching the first few episodes, you know, you're
just so committed to this world. You're just you're you're
fascinated by these people and their friendships and what they're hiding,
and it's it's fantastic television. And I think that there's

(04:39):
a lane for rewatch podcasts happening, but I imagine not
everybody gets to rewatch their show with you know, so
much pride and so much entertainment values still to reap
from today. And I watch it as now a fan,
like I am very much a fan of Desperate Housewives,
and that feels really cool twenty one years after it premiered.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, I wasn't the exact target demo, but I really
enjoyed it.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And you know, we're.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Holding a lot of space for the men on the show,
the husbands and the gardeners. No, it's true, they do
they they really, they are incredible characters, even though obviously
it's promoted as Desperate Housewives.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
The press obviously at the time really took off with
the housewives aspect of it, as they should have. But
now twenty years later, with us rewatching it, it is
really fun to really focus on the men and look
at what they were doing and what those characters were representing.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
I mean, we're.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Looking at it all we're even looking at the food, Mario,
we are like, we've added this thing because you know,
Susan is notoriously horrible, Crisly a horrible cook, which I'm
not because I went to cooking school and I've cooked
my whole life, and food is how I show love.
But so we decided to add from each episode, we'll
pick a food that stands out and we'll make it

(06:01):
for our podcast and for our listeners, will put the
recipes up and whatever, and it's just like a little
extra bonus.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
Maybe if it's a big success, we'll get to do
a desperately devoted cookbook.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's a little extra way we can we can show
love to our listeners because that's kind of what the
podcast is as well.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's a bit of a love lever letter. Yeah. Desert Housewives.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, I was not aware of the culinary skills Terry
very cool.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Oh she is amazing.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Okay, culinary skills and I don't know if you remember,
but my my Christmas village building skills.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
Also, I do remember that.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
I do remember that, you know what, I think that's
what your most famous was.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
What I find fascinating is Desperate Housewives was such a phenomenon.
It it initially spawned the Real Housewives franchise and Bravo
which now just dominates the whole network. And I don't
know how many franchises are. It's bizarre to see how
far that's come. But essentially springboarding from your show, No,
it really did, you know.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
I did a little research into this, and the word
housewife itself kind of fell out of favor, like all
the way back in the seventies when you had the
liberation of women and the free you know, freedom and
the bra burning, and in a way, that idea of
that sort of free character of the perfect housewife didn't

(07:16):
really exist until Mark Cherry brought this show back and
the word housewives.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
He really, you know, created.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
That a resurgence, had that idea, and you're right, Bravo
took off with it. I used to say back in
the day that Mark Cherry deserved some small percentage of
all of.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
That, which I don't think he ever got, but he
should have. But I mean it's true, and as a
as a Bravo Real Housewives fan.

Speaker 5 (07:44):
I think about it every time because they're openings, they're
holding the orange, or they're holding this or that that
for their various cities that they're in, and it's.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Just so obvious what the source material is.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
But also, can I just say kind that does kind
of bring us back to like one of the things
we're doing is we are analyzing and rewatching the show,
but we're also using it as a springboard to talk
about modern day culture and certainly as issues apply to women,
which is what's happening on.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
The Real Housewives too, you know.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
So we have that aspect of bringing all of our
different lives into our podcast and hopefully those things will
be people think people that things people want to hear
inspired by.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, so much fun, Andrew. I saw by the way
you announced on social that you're expecting.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, congratulated.

Speaker 5 (08:32):
Connect with my first baby and we're so excited.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Oh that's fantastic. When when's a baby? Do?

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (08:38):
Yeah, I'm having a little girl and we're due later
this year.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
So all right, not too much longer.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, but that's another thing that is so cool. That
was an unexpected kind of turn of events in a
way that I get to do this with my on
screen mom and her daughter, and you know, I get
to sit here while getting ready to become a mom
to my daughter, and it's it's just perfect timing to
revisit the show and re visit our memories of it together,

(09:06):
and it's just I feel so grateful to be getting
to do this with both of you.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Well, congratulations and congratulations to all you ladies. Everyone. Please
be sure to check out the new podcast, Desperately Devoted,
which you can hear right now on iHeartRadio or wherever
you get podcasts. Thanks for stopping, bye, Thank you so
much for having us.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
I would say, go put on a shirt, but don't.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
I think I'm gonna see you later. I will have
a shirt on when I see you later. I think
I'm going to do my show, okay, but you can
give me a hard time, okay, girls, Thank you with
Mario Lopez