Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Wisteria Lane?
It’s hard to imagine anyone other than Teri Hatcher playing the role of hopeless romantic Susan Mayer. However, she wasn’t the only one eager to fill the role before filming started. In fact, it was revealed in the 2006 book Desperate Networks that Seinfeld actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus was after the role, but ABC executives felt that she didn’t fit the part.
Marcia Cross, Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman. Photo By Danny Feld/Abc-Tv/Kobal/Shutterstock
Can you imagine JLD sipping wine with the other housewives on Wisteria Lane? I sure can’t. But, hey, it all worked out in the end. Had she been cast as Susan Mayer, we would have never seen her as the Vice President in Veep, which premiered a month before the Desperate Housewives Season Finale.