Marcia Cross & Dana Delany Do Entertainment Weekly

Juicy details after the jump!

Creator Marc Cherry’s on DH’s creative resurgence:

“I think it’s been more in the realm of believability this year. It’s still far out there, but it’s not cellars and people chained up.”

Dana on her castmates helping her slip into villain mode:

“It’s a matter of figuring out the tone. These actors manage to have this really light touch and throw it away. I learned that from them.”

Marcia on Bree:

“I’ve been itching for a growth spurt [for Bree], and I think this whole working-with-Katherine thing will move her forward.”

Dana on “the letter”:

“[The audience is] going to learn parts of it. I know now. And I know what I did [in the past]. Marc told me right before the strike, and I thought, ‘Wow.”

Dana on Marcia:

“When Marcia and I look at each other, I have to work hard to keep from laughing. She gets a gleam in her eye that’s so devious.”

Marcia on Dana:

“I have a huge crush on her right now, which is nice because you can flip it around and use it [as tension]. It’s fun, but she can make me cry. She can do that cold thing on cue- she can make icicles hang off a room.”

Creator Marc Cherry on DH:

“We had some missteps in that season [season 2] that informed the seasons afterward. What I learned about the mysteries is that they’re the glue that holds the seasons together. So the casting, the story, everything has to be exactly right. This season we got it right.”

“The addition of Dana Delany was a masterstroke. We never had a female villain on the street before. Shades of Amanda from Melrose Place keep popping up.”

“Tom and Lynette’s is the marriage that American has said to me, ‘You have to protect them.’ I have to be very careful.”