See Also: Felicity Huffman People Guide, Teri Hatcher People Guide

Already a critical success on the film circuit, Felicity Huffman's (Lynette Scavo) Transamerica recently made its Hollywood debut at AFI Fest 2005. Joining her at the premiere were her Desperate Housewives co-stars.

"I hear Felicity is Oscar-worthy," Marcia Cross (Bree Van De Kamp) told USA TODAY, "so maybe we'll all be at the Academy Awards. Well, we'll all be watching." Teri Hatcher (Susan Mayer) agreed. "Yeah," she added. "We'll be watching in our pajamas, rooting her on."

Huffman told the Associated Press she was honored to have her friends there. "It's fantastic. I mean, they're so sweet," she said. Hatcher joked they had other intentions for being there though. "We catfight so much, that we would just come here to ruin your premiere. That's really my goal, really," she laughed.

Indeed the stars will have trouble with the tabloids either way. If they don't go, they'll be accused of shunning her. If they do go, the tabloids will undoubtedly say it is pretense. "I think that's the kind of thing you have to chip away at," said James Denton (Mike Delfino). "I think, eventually, people will go, 'Oh, OK, there's no story there.' You know what I mean? Certainly all of our being here isn't gonna make it stop. But you just have to laugh about it and go, 'Eventually, they're going to figure out that they're all pretty good friends.' But it'll take some time, for sure."

He also talked briefly about Desperate Housewives, and gave hope to fans that may not be happy with season two so far. "I think there's a real comfort viewers had with last season that they might have been missing," he told USA TODAY. "But when we get into [2006] the show focuses more on the characters viewers know."

The award-winning Transamerica gets a limited release on December 2. In it Huffman plays Bree, a male-to-female conservative transsexual. "It's a man becoming a woman," Huffman told CBS News earlier this year. "But it's sort of, oddly enough, a road movie, and a rollicking good time, and it's really funny. And it's touching, and I think it speaks to everyone."

The full articles can be found at USA TODAY and Associated Press.

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