>> Crossing the line <<
Desperate measures for desperate housewives
As botox and plastic surgery has become more
and more fashionable within the LA acting
community, so TV directors and writers have
had to become more and more creative in
order to show their cast members registering
emotions. Marcia Cross, from Desperate
Housewives, seems to have evolved an entirely
ageless and expressionless kind of beauty,
where nothing above the smile seems to move.
An insider claims that for one scene from
this series, her character, Bree, was
supposed to register wordless surprise.
As Marcia's expression is always one of
wordless surprise, this wouldn't exactly be
easy. The enterprising crew had a solution:
they shot her from behind and had her drop
something, as a pantomime for the surprise
she could not really convey.