EXCLUSIVE Eva Longoria, 49, reveals what it was REALLY like to film raunchy scenes with Jesse Metcalfe, 45, on Desperate Housewives - and says ABC show needed an intimacy coordinator By Emma Powell For Dailymail.Com Published: 18:17 EDT, 20 June 2024 | Updated: 18:17 EDT, 20 June 2024 e-mail View comments Eva Longoria has said Desperate Housewives should have employed an intimacy coordinator as she opened up about what it was really like to film so many raunchy scenes with Jesse Metcalfe. The actress, 49, played Gabriella Solis, a trophy wife who embarks on a sordid affair with her teenage gardener John Rowland, played by Metcalfe, 45, in the groundbreaking ABC comedy-drama in the early 2000s.
The pair were frequently seen enjoying steamy clinches as Longoria’s character battled to hide their illicit romance from her husband Carlos (Ricardo S. Chavira) and the residents of Wisteria Lane. Speaking in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.
com, Longoria said she was ‘so close’ to Metcalfe with whom she would have open conversations about intimate moments – but said show bosses should have had an intimacy coordinator for anyone who felt ‘uncomfortable’. ‘I had a lot of intimate scenes,’ she said. ‘We both came from soaps, which was like not worse, but like a lot of kissing scenes.
So we were both like, okay, whatever. Like, we didn't really it didn't bother us. Eva Longoria told DailyMail.
com that Desperate Housewives should have employed an intimacy coordinator.
