Desperate Housewives was a staple of the ABC primetime lineup, women like Eva Longoria tended to give a certain kind of speech at the dinners and events their roles required them to attend: short, sweet, grateful.
It would be almost a decade before #OscarsSoWhite kicked off wider conversations about inclusion in entertainment. The seismic shifts that movements like Time’s Up and #MeToo would lead to were still unthinkable.
But Longoria deviated from the script when she stood up at one otherwise unremarkable event and said a few words about her role as the cutthroat and spoiled Gabrielle Solis.The series was at its peak in 2007, treating audiences to elaborate drama, dark humor, and the domestic machinations of Wisteria Lane.
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