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Eva Longoria recently spoke with PEOPLE, recalling her time working with Jesse Metcalfe on Desperate Housewives
Metcalfe played John Rowland, a teenage gardener who gets caught up in an affair with Longoria’s Gabrielle Solis
Desperate Housewives aired from 2004 to 2012
Eva Longoria has nothing but love for Jesse Metcalfe.
Touching on their days working together on Desperate Housewives in a recent interview with PEOPLE, Longoria talked about the many romantic encounters between the two that made up the early seasons’ plot.
Metcalfe, 47, starred in the ABC drama as teen gardener John Rowland, who has an affair with Longoria’s Gabrielle Solis. Longoria tells PEOPLE, “Every scene with Jesse — I heard him on a podcast the other day talking about it — Jesse and I had so much fun.”
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Jesse Metcalfe and Eva Longoria filming “Desperate Housewives”
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“He played 17 years old, but he was 25 years old. I was playing 40, but I was 29. So we were basically the same age — I was aged up and he was aged down. People always forget that,” she noted.
“We got along the best — he’ll tell you that. We had the best time, we laughed so much. We had so many bathtub scenes and sex scenes; you have to lighten the mood sometimes.”
She continued, “I adore Jesse Metcalfe. I adored my time with him. I’m so happy it was him that I got to experience that global phenomenon with. He was amazing and he still is an amazing human being.”
Jesse Metcalfe and Eva Longoria in 2023
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In 2024, Metcalfe shared his own memories of acting alongside Longoria with PEOPLE, “Every day was an out-of-body experience, honestly, because you got to drive onto the Universal Studios lot where Wisteria Lane was.”
“There was a lot of making out. There were a lot of sex scenes and a lot of making out between Eva and I,” he continued. “And although those scenes could be awkward at times, we were always laughing. So, we always had a great time. We didn’t take it too seriously, that’s for sure.”
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