Where Is Desperate Housewives' Orson Hodge Now? Kyle MacLachlan Says…

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There whitethorn person been times Orson Hodge looked arsenic if helium could person happily buried Bree Van de Kamp beneath her perfectly manicured tract connected Wisteria Lane.

And remainder assured, Kyle MacLachlan loved digging into those scenes connected Desperate Housewives.

"Coming successful and gathering everyone, each truly fantastic," the 65-year-old histrion told E! News successful an exclusive interview, recalling joining the ABC improvement toward the extremity of its 2nd play successful 2006. "And Marcia Cross is conscionable truthful special."

As Orson and Bree navigated courtship, marriage, a murderous mother, jail, infidelity, a fake pregnancy, paralysis, his refusal to accidental "please" (or bathe), much mysterious deaths than hap connected astir suburban blocks and oh-so-much betrayal, MacLachlan and Cross were fixed plentifulness of scenery to chew.

Which they did, successful their respectively classical ways.

"We were some trained done repertory theater, truthful connection was not a occupation for us," helium explained. "And connected the juncture that we had immoderate of those truly crisp scenes backmost and forth, arsenic an histrion it's what you unrecorded for." 

He added, "Doing dialog similar that, with a idiosyncratic similar Marcia, was precise special. So I felt close astatine home."

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In fact, MacLachlan—who was lone expected to beryllium connected Desperate Housewives for a year—was enjoying himself truthful overmuch playing the dentist who helps Bree flight from a psychiatric infirmary and runs James Denton's Mike implicit with his car, helium asked bid creator Marc Cherry if his quality could instrumentality around.

That was much than alrighty with Cherry, who had the writers set the storyline to nonstop Orson and Bree connected a marvelously unhinged bid of adventures.

"Desperate Housewives was that large operation of superior topics but told conscionable a small spot disconnected the borderline of the cliff," MacLachlan said, "and with an borderline to it that you ne'er truly knew what was going to happen. Anything could happen connected that show, it was just game."

As helium tends to bash erstwhile it comes to overmuch of his cult-favorite-packed career, the Washington autochthonal credited his enactment with Twin Peaks creator David Lynch for putting him successful Cherry's sights.

The histrion feels "incredibly fortunate to beryllium successful things that look to person struck a chord with people—not everything, of course—but a fig of them have," helium said, "and it conscionable truly warms my bosom erstwhile radical respond strongly."

For immoderate clip present his fans person been responding particularly powerfully to what the prima has been getting up to connected societal media, often with a damn good cupful of java oregon solid of his ain Pursued by Bear vino successful his hand.

"I similar to person fun," helium explained the M.O. down his cheerful societal media presence. "I similar to bask things."

It's his palpable joie de vivre that prompted Arby's to spouse with MacLachlan for the instrumentality of their beloved Potato Cakes, backmost for a constricted clip nationwide starting July 1.

And yet a meal point being disposable each time genuinely is, arsenic MacLachlan noted, "the top happening successful the world."

Meanwhile, his appraisal of the run arsenic "just immoderate giddy fun" could arsenic easy beryllium referring to his wide attack to beingness and overmuch of the enactment he's been doing for the past 30 years, astir precocious re-voicing Riley's dada successful Inside Out 2 and dispatching marauders connected the postapocalyptic Amazon bid Fallout.

But helium tends to person a expansive clip wherever helium goes. While it was his woman of present 22 years, Desiree Gruber, who insisted helium play Dr. Trey MacDougal on Sex and the City ("That wasn't truly wherever I lived," helium admitted, "and I was unaware of the effect to it"), helium knew that Desperate Housewives was the spot to beryllium erstwhile accidental knocked.

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"That 1 was much wide to me," helium recalled. "I said, 'Oh, this is going to beryllium fun.'"

As for Orson, whose past known enactment was trying to nonstop revenge connected Bree, MacLachlan pictures the once-troubled psyche happily moving an Arby's franchise now. 

"He is liable for bringing backmost the Potato Cake," the histrion quipped. Orson tirelessly supported Bree's catering business, helium noted, and "many times helium brought up the thought of the Potato Cake to her. Sadly, she didn't usage it, but present it has yet happened."

So, evidently MacLachlan is doing splendidly, but support speechmaking to spot what the remainder of the Desperate Housewives cast is up to now:

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Teri Hatcher

Since saying goodbye to Susan Mayer erstwhile Desperate Housewives wrapped successful 2012, Hatcher has had recurring roles connected the short-lived CBS sitcom The Odd Couple and Supergirl, portion providing the dependable of Dottie successful the Disney animated movie Planes and its sequel Planes: Fire & Rescue.

An avid location chef, she won a peculiar Holiday Celebrity occurrence of Chopped play 17. In 2018, she debuted a YouTube transmission called Hatching Change that features the segments "Van Therapy" and "Don't Eat 'It' Out of a Box."

Her fallout with the 4 different leads of the amusement continues to beryllium a taxable of conversation, more precocious returning to the fore successful the aftermath of Felicity Huffman's arrest, with Eva Longoria and creator Marc Cherry seemingly referencing her alleged diva antics on the set.

But successful December 2021, we got the reunion we had been waiting for. Teri reunited with James Denton for Hallmark Channel's vacation movie A Kiss Before Christmas.

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Felicity Huffman

After her clip connected the ABC hit, Huffman starred successful the shows American Crime (which earned her three consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actress successful a Limited Series oregon Movie), Get Shorty and When They See Us, portion appearing successful films including Big Game, Cake and Otherhood.

The longtime woman of Shameless prima William H. Macy had her idiosyncratic beingness travel to the forefront erstwhile she was revealed to beryllium among dozens of parents charged by the FBI and U.S. Attorney General's bureau successful March 2019 successful a nationwide assemblage entranceway exam cheating scandal.

Accused of paying idiosyncratic $15,000 to unreal to beryllium girl Sophia and instrumentality her SAT exam for her, she was arrested and charged with conspiracy to perpetrate message fraud and honorable services fraud. She formally pleaded blameworthy to honorable services fraud and was aboriginal sentenced to 14 days successful jail. She reported the Federal Correctional Institution successful Dublin, Calif. connected October 15, 2019 and was released 2 days aboriginal due to the fact that her merchandise day fell connected a weekend.

Since her release, she's kept a debased illustration and is set to marque her acting return successful ABC's The Good Lawyer. 

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Eva Longoria

The erstwhile Gabrielle Solis went connected to look successful films similar Lowriders, Overboard and Dora and the City of Lost Gold, prima successful NBC's short-lived Telanovela and enforcement nutrient Marc Cherry's Desperate Housewives follow-up Devious Maids connected Lifetime arsenic good arsenic ABC's short-lived Grand Hotel. She's besides begun a robust directing career, helming episodes of the aforementioned series, arsenic good arsenic Jane the Virgin, Black-ish and The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia, among others.

An activistic and a businesswoman who's launched her ain covering enactment and been a vocal, founding subordinate of Time's Up, Longoria began dating and, successful 2016, married José Antonio "Pepe" Bastón Patiño, president of Televisa, the largest media institution successful Latin America. The mates welcomed a son, Santiago "Santi" Enrique Bastón, successful 2018.

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Marcia Cross

Since starring arsenic Bree Van de Camp successful each 8 seasons of the show, the erstwhile Melrose Place prima appeared successful a 2015 occurrence of Law & Order: SVU earlier joining ABC's Quantico successful a recurring capableness done 2018.

In September of that year, she revealed that she'd successfully completed attraction for anal cancer, which she aboriginal shared was linked to the pharynx crab her longtime hubby Tom Mahoney was diagnosed with successful 2009, perchance done the aforesaid benignant of HPV.

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Nicollette Sheridan

Part of the archetypal cast, Sheridan's Edie Britt was killed disconnected the bid during its 5th play aft escalating tensions betwixt her and Cherry that yet resulted successful a $20 cardinal suit against the shaper and ABC Television with the histrion claiming wrongful termination, battle and battery, sex violence, favoritism based connected sex, intersexual orientation, and age, and intentional infliction of affectional distress. With the show's 4 different pistillate leads vowing to enactment Cherry, the archetypal proceedings was deemed a mistrial, with Sheridan's attempts at an entreaty denied.

Since leaving the series, she's starred successful a trio of Hallmark films and concisely joined the formed of The CW's Dynasty arsenic the iconic Alexis Carrington earlier departing 15 episodes into the show's 2nd season.

In December 2015, she joined Aaron Phypers and rapidly filed for divorcement the pursuing July.

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Steven Culp

After starring arsenic Bree's hubby Rex successful the show's archetypal season, Culp appeared connected shows arsenic varied arsenic NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, Scream Queens, Arrow, How to Get Away With Murder, and American Horror Story: 1984 among others. He besides portrayed Congressman Wenham successful Marvel's 2014 movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier. 

In 2006, his half-sister Kathryn Harvey was murdered on with her hubby Bryan and their 2 daughters Stella and Ruby. Of the 2 men who were convicted for their murder, one, Ricky Gray, was executed by lethal injection successful 2017, portion the other, Ray Dandridge, is serving 3 beingness sentences without the anticipation of parole.

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Ricardo Antonio Chavira

After 8 seasons spent playing Carlos Solis, Chavira rebounded with a bid regular relation successful the precise short-lived NBC drama Welcome to the Family, yanked disconnected the docket aft lone 3 episodes successful 2013. Since then, he's had recurring roles connected Scandal, Jane the Virgin and The Santa Clarita Diet.

In October 2019, aft his erstwhile co-worker Huffman was sentenced to conscionable 14 days successful national situation for her relation successful the assemblage admissions bribery ungraded that rocked the country, helium took to Twitter to explicit his disappointment astatine the airy punishment, citing Huffman's achromatic privilege arsenic the root of the leniency.

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James Denton

The erstwhile Mike Delfino moved his woman Erin O'Brien and their lad Sheppard and girl Malin retired of Glendale, Calif. and to Chanhassen, Minn. In 2015, helium landed a starring relation successful the Hallmark Channel's bid adaptation of its fashionable movie franchise The Good Witch. He's besides recurred connected Devious Maids and guest-starred connected NCIS: New Orleans.

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Doug Savant

Since his 8 seasons arsenic Lynette's hubby Tom Scavo, Savant has kept engaged making the guest-star rounds connected TV shows arsenic varied arsenic Criminal Minds, 9-1-1, Lucifer and NCIS.

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Brenda Strong

As the show's omnipresent and deceased narrator Mary Alice Young, Strong was heard often but seen small during clip connected the show. Since then, she's been overmuch much visible. She starred arsenic Ann Ewing successful TNT's 2012 revival of Dallas earlier recurring arsenic Lex and Lena Luthor's parent Lillian connected Supergirl and elevating a recurring relation successful play 2 of Netflix's 13 Reasons Why into a regular 1 for the pursuing season. She's besides guested connected Scandal, The 100, Fear the Walking Dead and All Rise, among others. 

In May 2015, she joined director-actor John Farmanesh-Bocca 4 years aft divorcing archetypal hubby and begetter of her lad Zakery Henri, Tom Henri.

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Madison De La Garza

Joining the amusement arsenic Gabrielle and Carlos' girl Juanita aft the clip leap betwixt seasons 4 and five, De La Garza remained with the amusement done its bid finale. Since the amusement wrapped successful 2012, the younger half-sister of Demi Lovato has grown up (she turned 18 successful December 2019) and appeared successful the films Caged No More and Gnome Alone and the shows Good Luck Charlie and Bad Teacher.

She precocious got candid astir the hatred she received implicit her quality portion connected the show, which she said led her to make an eating disorder.

"I would walk hours and hours speechmaking comments," she recalled. "They said things similar they wanted maine to dice due to the fact that of what I looked like. It was like, ‘Ugly abdominous cow. And I anticipation you get crab and dice due to the fact that you're truthful fat.' And conscionable horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible things. And this is erstwhile I was 6, 7, 8 years old."

"My archetypal memories of trying to starve myself, I was 7 years old," she continued. "A batch of it came from speechmaking those comments. My household had nary thought that this was going on. My ma had nary thought that I was seeing these things, that I was speechmaking these things, due to the fact that I was very, precise sneaky astir it."

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Richard Burgi

As Susan's ex-husband Karl Mayer, Burgi's tenure connected the amusement saw his presumption fluctuate often. Beginning arsenic a recurring impermanent prima successful play one, helium was promoted to bid regular successful play two, demoted to impermanent successful 3 and four, recurring successful 5 and six, and returning arsenic a impermanent successful eight. Since the amusement wrapped, he's guest-starred connected Hawaii Five-0, General Hospital and Devious Maids, among different shows. 

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Dana Delany

After initially declining the relation of Bree, Delany joined the amusement successful play 4 arsenic the mysterious Katherine Mayfair and near aft play six to prima successful her ain ABC series, Body of Proof. When the aesculapian procedural was canceled aft 3 seasons, she landed pb roles successful short-lives bid Hand of God and The Code. In 2016, she besides served arsenic the primetime impermanent big connected Turner Classic Movies, filling successful for Robert Osborne.

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Andrea Bowen

After 4 years connected the amusement arsenic a bid regular, Bowen spent the remainder of the show's tally appearing successful assorted constricted capacities arsenic Susan's girl Julie. When the amusement wrapped, she went connected to prima successful the teen drama G.B.F. and landing the pb relation successful a fistful of Lifetime and Hallmark films. She besides guest-starred successful a 2013 occurrence of Scandal. Bowen has besides continued her dependable enactment arsenic English mentation of Aerith Gainsborough successful the video games Final Fantasy Explorers, Mobius Final Fantasy, and Kingdom Hearts III.

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Vanessa Williams

After starring arsenic precocious Wisteria Lane summation Renee Perry successful the show's last 2 seasons, Williams starred successful the short-lived bid 666 Park Avenue and Daytime Divas, recurred connected The Good Wife, and guest-starred connected Broad City, Difficult People, Modern Family and The First Wives Club. She's besides continued to supply the dependable of Ms. Brown, the brownish M&M, since 2012 and launched her ain covering enactment successful 2012. In 2015, she joined her 3rd husband, Jim Skrip.

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Jesse Metcalfe

Starring arsenic blistery gardener John Rowland successful the show's archetypal play launched Metcalfe to fame. Since then, he's starred successful the movie John Tucker Must Die, the shows Dallas and Chesapeake Shores, and a fistful of made-for-TV movies. In March 2007, helium entered rehab for attraction for alcoholism. In January 2020, it was revealed that helium and fiancée Cara Santana had divided aft astir 13 years together.

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Mark Moses

As Mary Alice's shady hubby Paul Young, Moses starred successful the show's archetypal 2 seasons earlier returning to Wisteria Lane successful play 7 a bid regular each implicit again. Since the amusement wrapped, the histrion appeared successful the films Cesar Chavez and Bombshell, continued making appearances arsenic Duck Phillips connected Mad Men done the show's finale successful 2015, and guest-starred connected shows arsenic varied arsenic Homeland and Grey's Anatomy, among galore more.

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Cody Kasch

After starring arsenic Mary Alice's lad Zach successful the archetypal 2 seasons and aboriginal returning arsenic a impermanent successful seasons 3 and seven, Kasch went connected to guest-star successful shows similar Law & Order: SVU, CSI and It's Always Sunny successful Philadelphia and look successful films Chain Letter and The Last Rescue

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Shawn Pyfrom

With his 8 seasons playing Bree's lad Andrew down him, Pyfrom went connected to look successful an occurrence of Rizzoli & Isles, the TV movie Killing Lincoln, and the films Hard Surfaces, Rudy's Canvas and Model Citizen. After Philip Seymour Hoffman's 2014 overdose and death, Pyfrom admitted that, arsenic of February that year, helium was 5 months into betterment himself. 

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Kyle MacLachlan

After starring arsenic Bree's 2nd hubby Orson successful seasons 3 done six, MacLachlan discontinue the amusement successful 2010 truthful helium wouldn't person to support up his changeless cross-country commute from New York City. (He did instrumentality arsenic a impermanent prima successful the show's last 2 seasons, however.) Since his clip connected the show, he's appeared successful films similar Inside Out (providing the dependable of Riley's dada Mr. Anderson), The House with a Clock successful Its Walls, and Tesla, recurred connected shows similar Portlandia and Agents of SHIELD and returned to his seminal relation of Dale Cooper for Showtime's Twin Peaks revival successful 2017 (earning a Golden Globe motion for Best Actor successful a Miniseries oregon Television Film).

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Alfre Woodard

After joining the bid arsenic caller Wisteria Lane nonmigratory Betty Applewhite for the show's much-maligned 2nd season, Woodard has kept busy, starring successful short-lived shows including My Own Worst Enemy, Three Rivers, and State of Affairs earlier joining Netflix's Marvel TV beingness arsenic the villainous Mariah Stokes successful Luke Cage. She starred in Apple TV+'s See. On the movie side, she's starred successful films similar Beauty Shop, The Family That Preys, 12 Years a Slave, Annabelle and The Lion King. 

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Neal McDonough

Since starring arsenic Edie's creepy hubby Dave Williams successful play 5 of the show, McDonough has appeared connected amusement similar Agents of SHIELD, Justified and Altered Carbon portion bringing to beingness the iconic relation of Damian Darhk crossed the Arrowverse. In 2011, helium appeared arsenic Dum Dum Dugan successful Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger. He's since appeared successful films including Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2, Proud Mary and Sonic the Hedgehog.

Since leaving the show, helium and wife Ruvé Robertson grew their household from 4 to seven, welcoming London Jane successful 2010, Clover Elizabeth successful 2011 and James Hamilton successful 2014. A devout Catholic who refuses to movie enactment oregon kissing scenes, McDonough claimed his religion got him fired from the pb relation successful ABC's short-lived 2010 play Scoundrels implicit his refusal to movie definite scenes.

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Drea de Matteo

After spending 1 play connected Wisteria Lane, the show's sixth, arsenic Angie Bolen, the Sopranos vet joined the formed of Sons of Anarchy done its 2014 finale, appeared successful the films Free Ride and Dark Places, and guest-starred connected The Mindy Project and Agents of SHIELD. From 2016-18, she co-starred connected NBC's bull play Shades of Blue and recurred on ABC's A Million Little Things.

In April 2011, she and longtime spouse Waylon Jennings welcomed their 2nd child, son Waylon Albert "Blackjack" Jennings. (Daughter Alabama Gypsyrose Jennings was calved successful 2007.) Their narration ended soon thereafter. In 2015, she became engaged to Whitesnake bass guitarist Michael Devin conscionable months aft a state detonation and raging occurrence that destroyed 3 East Village, Manhattan buildings took her location of 22 years.

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Kevin Rahm

After appearing arsenic Lee, 1 fractional of Wisteria Lane's nonmigratory cheery couple, for the show's last 5 seasons, Rahm continued recurring connected Mad Men, guested connected Bates Motel and Madam Secretary and co-starred connected Lethal Weapon. He besides appeared successful the films Nightcrawler and Clinical. Shortly earlier the Desperate Housewives bid finale aired, helium joined cardio-thoracic surgeon Amy Lonkar connected April 28, 2012. The brace welcomed a girl 2 years later.

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Tuc Watkins

Since playing Bob, the different fractional of Wisteria Lane's cheery couple, Watkins guest-starred connected shows similar Parks and Recreation, Bob's Burgers and It's Always Sunny successful Philadelphia and starred successful the 2018 Broadway revival of the play The Boys successful the Band, returning to the relation of Hank for Ryan Murphy's movie adaptation of the revival. In April 2013, helium some came retired of the closet and revealed that he'd welcomed twins via a surrogate the anterior December.

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Maiara Walsh

Since starring successful play six arsenic Carlos and Gabrielle's niece Ana Solis, Walsh appeared connected shows similar The Vampire Diaries, Switched astatine Birth, The Last Ship and Criminal Minds

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Charles Mesure

After joining Desperate Housewives successful its last play arsenic the Australian existent property developer Ben Faulkner who went connected to wed Williams' Renee, Mesure appeared connected shows arsenic varied arsenic Once Upon a Time, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce and The Magicians.

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Jonathan Cake

After starring arsenic Chuck Vance, a detective progressive with Cross' Bree, successful the show's last 2 seasons, Cake has appeared connected shows similar Law & Order: SVU, The Affair, Seal Team, Legends of Tomorrow and Grey's Anatomy.

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