Eva Longoria dismissed the rumors about herself and her co-stars on Determined Housewives feuding, whereas engaged on the traditional present, in an episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Professional podcast, launched on Monday, November 27. Eva, 48, shut down the rumors and known as out the sexism of how the present was lined versus exhibits that had predominantly male casts.

The Harsh Occasions actress stated that her co-stars Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, and Felicity Huffman weren’t stunned about the best way their present was lined. “I bear in mind, even again then it was a narrative about girls, as a result of there have been all these exhibits about males on the air, and no person was like ‘They’re preventing,’” she stated. “All of them had such a greater deal with on fame, on that narrative. I’m like, ‘You guys, they’re saying we’re preventing!’ and so they’re like, ‘Yeah, properly that’s only a narrative they do [to] girls as a result of we’re over 40 in a tv present.’”

Over 10 years after the present ended, Eva admitted that individuals nonetheless typically ask her if the Determined Housewives had been actually preventing, and he or she stated that she forgets that it was a “large factor.” She additionally revealed that she was excited when she parodied it when she hosted Saturday Evening Dwell. “If it made a skit on SNL, you then knew you had been in popular culture. You’ve arrived,” she stated.

Regardless of common rumors that the celebs had been preventing, Eva stated that they typically didn’t hear concerning the gossip, since they had been too busy on the present. In the end, she stated that a lot of the suggestions each “good and unhealthy” didn’t make it again to the solid, due to how busy they had been. “We by no means might come up for air to actually get exterior of ourselves. We had been solely on this set,” she stated. “We had been in such a bubble with our crew and one another. We might solely discuss to one another about, like, ‘Doesn’t this suck?’”

Eva starred in all eight seasons of Determined Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012. The collection received seven Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for Finest Tv Sequence – Comedy or Musical in 2006.