Felicity Huffman reacts to Kerry Washington's 'Desperate Housewives' reboot

Felicity Huffman reacted to the news that Kerry Washington is developing a “Desperate Housewives” reboot during an appearance on “Good Morning America” Wednesday.

“Isn’t that great? They’re gonna do Wisteria Lane with women of color, and I am all for it,” Huffman, 62, said while promoting her new Lifetime movie “The Thirteenth Wife: Escaping

Polygamy.”

“I’m gonna do craft service for it,” she joked of her involvement in the reboot, adding, “But I just think it’s wonderful. And I’m a huge fan of Kerry’s.”

When asked who she’d like to play Lynette in the remake, Huffman replied, “Oh my god, I have no idea. I think a lot of people could do it better than I did, so I can’t wait to see it.”

“Desperate Housewives” aired on ABC from 2004 to 2012, starring Huffman, Eva Longoria, Marcia Cross and Teri Hatcher.

For her role as the stay-at-home mom, Huffman won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2005.

Seven years after the show ended, Huffman was charged in the nationwide 2019 Varsity Blues college admissions scandal. She admitted to shelling out $15,000 to have someone else take her

daughter Sophia’s SATs.

The Oscar nominee served 11 days in jail in Oct. 2019. She subsequently paid a $30,000 fine and completed 250 hours of community service.

In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Huffman said about the reboot, “First of all, I’m a huge fan of Kerry Washington’s. She’s so talented and such a force. But I think it’s great

they’re doing Wisteria Lane with women of color. It’s exactly what’s needed, it’s exactly the stories we need to be told. So I am all for it.”

But Huffman admitted she thinks it would be “distasteful” if she appears in the reboot.

“I think it should just live on its own,” she stated. “I think [creator] Marc Cherry is involved, so it’ll certainly have that voice.”

Last month, it was announced that Washington, 48, and the Disney-owned Onyx Collective were developing a reboot of the comedy-drama-mystery series with “The Flight Attendant” showrunner

Natalie Chaidez.

The “Desperate Housewives” remake will be a “fun, sexy, darkly comedic soap/mystery” set around “a group of five very different friends and sometimes frenemies who all live on a

picture-perfect cul-de-sac called ‘Wisteria Lane,’” according to Variety.

However, fans of the original series quickly slammed the reboot news on social media.

“Stop ruining the classics and come up with something original,” one fan wrote on X.

“The same thing that happened to sex and the city is about to happen to desperate housewives,” another person tweeted, referencing “And Just Like That.” 

While appearing on “The View” earlier this month, Washington said about the remake, “The idea is that it’s new times. There are new challenges.”

“It’s like, what happens on that cul-de-sac now?” she added. “It’s really exciting.”