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Marcia Cross hasn’t seen last episode of ‘Desperate Housewives’ but she’s ready for next role

Marcia Cross hasn’t seen last episode of ‘Desperate Housewives’ but she’s ready for next role

Marcia Cross hasn’t seen last episode of ‘Desperate Housewives’ but she’s ready for next role

Marcia Cross hasn’t seen last episode of ‘Desperate Housewives’ but she’s ready for next role

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  • Marcia Cross is prepared for her next famous role.
  • She played Bree Van de Kamp in “Desperate Housewives”.
  • She still hasn’t seen the final episode of the Marc Cherry-created show.
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Marcia Cross is prepared for her next famous role after playing Bree Van de Kamp in “Desperate Housewives” and Kimberly Shaw in “Melrose Place.”

“I always assumed that after ‘Desperate Housewives’ there will be a third act. It has not happened yet. That’s the double-edged sword of being an ‘icon.’ Everybody thinks you are that character and by the time they forget about it, you are not on anybody’s list anymore,” she said at Series Mania in Lille, France.

“I am at this funny crossword: I am this incredibly ripe human and yet Hollywood is not particularly interested. We are tackling LGBTQ+ issues, although there is still a long way to go, we are talking about people of color, but – and I hate to say it – we don’t love to see older women. We were 40-year-old women doing ‘DH’ and that was a big deal. Now, I want to see 60-year-old women.”

Especially the ones who are complicated.

“That’s my favorite thing. I will leave it to the writers, to figure out something fabulous.”

Standing ovations greeted Cross and she said she still hasn’t seen the final episode of the Marc Cherry-created program, which ended in 2012.

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“And I won’t!”

“I was exhausted [back then] because I had worked all these years, I gave birth to twins, my husband had cancer for a little while. I crawled to the finish line in terms of my physicality. But I remember that night, sitting with the girls and Marc. It was terrible.”

The actor, more recently seen in the likes of “Quantico” and Netflix’s “You,” also discussed her earlier roles, studies at Juilliard and even her “tiny little room” at YMCA.

“I saw these things going up and down and went: ‘I think these are cockroaches.’ Then I went to the communal bathroom and went: ‘I think these are hookers.’ I was thrilled. I was in New York!,” she laughed, urging young actors to persevere.

“No one is going to say: ‘What a great idea, to go into arts.’ You don’t get a lot of credit for being an artist or for being different. They call us the outliers, but we are really the leaders.”

She claimed that playing Kimberly Shaw on “Melrose Place” gave her stability.

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“I lost somebody in the middle of it [longtime partner Richard Jordan], then they called me asking if I wanted to go back. I remember being thrown a lifeline, because I was grieving so terribly. When I look at it now, it’s my life in grief.”

“If you do something well and you are known for it, the industry goes: ‘She can only do that.’ My agents at the time couldn’t get me a part that would be normal. I almost left the business,” she said.

“The one thing you always have to do is endure. Endure the bad times. Nobody wanted to do anything with Van Gogh when he was alive! It’s no small thing, being an artist. It hurts. And you can’t cut it all off.”

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