Brenda Strong

Brenda Strong: (Brenda on her new muse Family In Hiding) It's about a single mother who is trying her best to keep her life together. She has two teenage kids, a son, and a daughter. She ends up in a very difficult situation when she witnesses a murder one day after work. There's a drug lord who decides to kill a district attorney — I'm on my way to my car and I see [the drug lord] kill him in cold blood. I go to the police, and I don't realize that what I'm getting into is a witness protection program. Within 24 hours, my entire life is turned upside down, including my children's lives. We're given new identities, stripped of our old ones, and we're on the road and on the run. That's within the first eight pages [of the script], so basically it's hit the ground running.

Brenda Strong: (Brenda on the 2006 Primetime Emmy "Snubs") Everyone is probably getting more press for the snub than they would have had they gotten nominations. [Laughs] I don't think any of us do our work to be nominated. It's always nice, I would imagine. I don't think anyone is too upset about it. Everybody just continues to refocus on what's important, which is the work. I know the writers are certainly working very hard to make season 3 equal, if not better, than season 1. It feels already that we're off to a great start.

Brenda Strong: (Brenda on Season Two of Desperate Housewives) I think it was harder, certainly, to arrest the audience in season 2, because season 1 was so complete of a storyline, with the beginning — my suicide — and then the finale, with the solving of the mystery of why I killed myself. I think it was such a neat package that to then start season 2 with a whole new perspective, it's difficult to keep that momentum. I think it will take a little bit of time to find that, and I think they certainly did, in my opinion, find it. I thought season 2 was terrific, particularly in some of the characters who came forward, like Richard Burgi [who played Susan's loutish ex-husband]. There was some really fun, terrific work being done.