Jesse Metcalfe Recalls HisDesperate HousewivesSex Scenes with Eva Longoria: ‘We Were Always Laughing’ (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Jesse Metcalfe and Eva Longoria filming ‘Desperate Housewives’ scenes in the 2000s.Photo:Danny Feld/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

Danny Feld/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty; Craig Sjodin/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

It’s been nearly 20 years since the iconic“the lawn hasn’t been mowed”moment inDesperate Housewives’first episode almost exposed the affair betweenEva Longoria’s rich housewife character and her young gardener.

Now,Jesse Metcalfe, who played gardener John Rowland opposite Longoria’s Gabrielle Solis, is remembering the show fondly as the 20th anniversary ofDesperate Housewives’ premiere approaches in October.

Metcalfe, 45, exclusively reveals to PEOPLE at Boohoo Collective’s launch party in Los Angeles on Thursday, Aug. 29, that his favorite memory of hisDesperate Housewivesera involved his sex scenes with Longoria, 49.

“Every day was an out-of-body experience, honestly, because you got to drive onto the Universal Studios lot where Wisteria Lane was,” Metcalfe recalls. “There was a lot of making out. There were a lot of sex scenes and a lot of making out between Eva and I."

“And although those scenes could be awkward at times, we were always laughing. So, we always had a great time. We didn’t take it too seriously, that’s for sure,” he adds.

Jesse Metcalfe and Eva Longoria filming ‘Desperate Housewives’ season 4, which aired in 2007.Danny Feld/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

Danny Feld/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty

Metcalfe also says that being part ofDesperate Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012 for eight seasons on ABC, was a “crazy” experience.

“Oh, I feel old. I had the best time on that show,” theJohn Tucker Must Diestar remembers. “The show was huge. I had everything thrown at me under the sun. I mean, all the perks of new fame and being 24, 25 years old, just riding that crazy wave. Everything was amazing.”

Jesse Metcalfe and Eva Longoria at the Emmy Awards in 2005.Kevin Winter/Getty

Kevin Winter/Getty

Now, busy producing movies such as upcoming horror filmThe Possession at Gladstone Manor,Metcalfe recently reunited with Longoriaat the premiere of her directorial debut forFlamin’ Hotin June.

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Jesse Metcalfe on Aug. 29, 2024; Eva Longoria on Aug. 22, 2024.Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty

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Longoriaalso reflectedonDesperate Housewives’ legacy that same month during an appearance onToday with Hoda and Jenna.

“It was a decade of my life and it was the No. 1 show in the world, so I just remember the first time I went to London … and there was a big crowd of people outside the hotel,” she recalled. “And I was like, ‘Gosh, who’s here? Is Bono here? Somebody important must be here!’ And the driver was like, ‘You.’ And I was like, ‘No, somebody like, big. Like a big deal!’ ”

“And he didn’t understand that I didn’t understand the global reach of that show at the time where there was no streaming,” she explained.

source: people.com