Not everyone does, asDesperate Housewivescreator Marc Cherry knows.
In a new interview withPEOPLE, Cherry recounted one such conversation with Tony Award-winning actor and director Tommy Tune.
“Tommy got confused and said, ‘Oh, so do you produce all the various cities?’
The cast of ‘Desperate Housewives’ vs. the cast of season 1 of ‘The Real Housewives of Orange County’.Credit:MOSHE BRAKHA/ABC; Chris McPherson/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty
And I looked at him I had no idea what he was talking about,” Cherry told PEOPLE.
“And then I realized, ‘Oh, you think I created the real-lifeHousewivesfranchise?'”
And there was no better place for it than Orange County.
‘Desperate Housewives’ creator Marc Cherry in 2019.Tibrina Hobson/Getty
The women were bored and rich.
Their hair was big and blond, their boobs were bigger.
One woman, Vicki [Gunvalson], even had a grotto in her backyard.
But Scotts idea was maybe a little less grounded in reality.
We wanted it to be a docuseries about these women and their friendships."
Cherry doesn’t mind the obvious inspiration.
“They didn’t crib my name, to be fair to them,” Cherry told PEOPLE.
“They just used the word.
Our show came out, and they capitalized on that.
And you know what?
That’s the capitalistic system.”
That’s the part that makes Cherry jealous.
So good for them."
It’s possible thatDesperate Housewivescould return to TV someday.
“It was such a fun place to write for,“Cherry said then.
“And there’s times when I go, ‘You know what?
I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in, like, 1966.'”
