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.

Brenda Strong: (Brenda on being a yoga instructor in real life, and Gabrielle is often seen on the show doing yoga and how maybe it was Mary Alice who got Gabrielle into it?) [Laughs] Right there, I'd like to draw a distinction between Mary Alice and Brenda Strong. Just because Brenda Strong does yoga doesn't mean Mary Alice does! There are many differences between the two [characters of Mary Alice and Gaby], but, yes, it would be fun to draw more correlations between what we had in common and why we were friends. [Chuckling] Certainly yoga could be one of those. The possibilities are endless, from Mary Alice cooking with Bree, to doing yoga with Gaby, to babysitting Lynette's kids, and on and on and on.

Brenda Strong:My favorite moment was when Julie walked in on Carl and Susan in bed and saw her parents and got so grossed out. She went "ewww" and went running down the hallway and they both came running after her. I thought it was such a great moment. You never see in divorces where the feelings of a child are, "No, don't get back together." It is usually the opposite.(talking about her favourite moment on season two on desperate housewives)

Brenda Strong: (on season three of Desperate Housewives) Mary Alice is going to be back with an attitude. She will be a little less surreal, ethereal and a little more sassy, which means the show is going to be sassier.

Brenda Strong (on her ideal role): I would like to play an assassin in 24. I think that would be fun because than I could get 24 episodes of one single day. I would get to be on camera for the entire season.