A new family moves onto Wisteria Lane when “Desperate Housewives” returns this season, and ET gets the inside scoop from Jeffrey Nordling, who plays Nick Vitale, husband to Angie Vitale (Drea de Matteo).
“He is not from these parts,” Nordling tells ET. “He doesn’t really belong [on Wisteria Lane]. There is a dark secret in their past, which you don’t quite figure out in the beginning. But something happened. It is not quite witness protection, but …”
Nordling says the hardest part of his role is getting the syntax right, because the characters don’t talk “as proper as the writers write.”
Not a new character, but returning after an absence is Andrea Bowen, who plays Susan’s (Teri Hatcher) daughter Julie.
“Technically, I have been at Princeton and then graduate school. I come back with secrets of my own,” Bowen tells ET. She also reveals that she may have romance in her future, saying, ” I think people will be surprised at who Julie ends up with.”
It might be Angie and Nick’s son, because Bowen admits that she gets to interact a lot with the new family.
Bowen also says that exec producer/creator Marc Cherry had always told her that she would return. “He told me, ‘We have to make people miss you. You have to go away to come back in a big way,’” she shares.
And speaking of Susan, Dana Delany, who plays Katherine, admits that some things never change and that this season, as in the one previous, Katherine and Susan still will be fighting over Mike (James Denton). “That will be endless,” she says.
The new season of “Desperate Housewives” returns Sunday, Sept. 27 at 9 p.m. on ABC.
Jeffrey Nordling is new to Desperate Housewives.
The actor, coming off a key role on season seven of 24, joins the cast of ABC hit this fall as the husband of Drea de Matteo’s character. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the actor said his character - shocker! - has a secret that won’t be revealed right away.
“He is not from these parts,” Nordling said. “He doesn’t really belong [on Wisteria Lane]. There is a dark secret in their past, which you don’t quite figure out in the beginning. But something happened.”
Meanwhile, Andrea Bowen will return in September as Susan’s daughter Julie. Where has she been for the last couple years?
“Technically, I have been at Princeton and then graduate school. I come back with secrets of my own,” the actress said, teasing that Julie has romance in her future: “I think people will be surprised at who Julie ends up with.”
Let’s hope John Barrowman didn’t just jinx himself.
The Torchwood star says he’s in negotiations to play a role on the upcoming season of Desperate Housewives. He sounds quite confident about his prospects to appear on the ABC hit.
During a radio interview last week, Barrowman said he was about to meet up with series writers/producers in Los Angeles to discuss the role. He later posted on his Twitter account:
“Can you believe it, I’m going to be a Desperate Housewife!”
The Scottish actor didn’t say what character he’d play. But we’re guessing it won’t actually be a housewife.