Is she a busy body, or is she a potential killer? Whether Martha Huber's sister Felicia Tilman is bad egg is debatable, but Harriet Sansom Harris who plays her is keeping an open mind because she doesn't know what's to come.

"I always think that even if she is a bad person, she doesn't think so," Harris told Playbill News, and added that Tilman is a "very fun part" to play. But Harris has no idea what is to come for her character. "I never have any talks with the producers or anything like that about what's going on or what I'm really up to or after. I just kind of have to guess. Sometimes I read the scripts and I'm really surprised. And sometimes I think, 'I thought that's what's going on!' It's almost like a scavenger hunt because you're looking for things along the way. It's a lot of fun."

Harris said that she got the role on Desperate Housewives because she previously played the sister of the Martha Huber actress. "I had done a series out here a long time ago called The 5 Mrs. Buchanans, and that was Marc Cherry's show, too. And when he knew that Christine Estabrook had to die [on Housewives]—which I don't think anyone wanted to have happen—I played her sister before in another series, so I think I seemed like a natural choice to him for this."

She said that the stage, in particular musicals, was the inspiration for her to get into acting. "When I was growing up, there was one venue, and that was Casa Manana," she said. "I saw a lot of musicals as a kid. They're just splendid. If you like 'em when you're a kid, it's sort of ingrained in you. When I was really a child, I thought I would grow up and be a musical comedy star. [Laughs.] Then I realized what it really took and I thought, "That's probably not going to happen for me." By that time I had gotten very interested in other things.

The full interview with Harris can be found over at Playbill News.

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