Page Kennedy, the man locked in Betty Applewhite (Alfre Woodard)'s basement on Desperate Housewives, is finally being allowed out of his prison to talk.

"He's sweet but he can be very dangerous," Kennedy told The Associated Press (via ABC News) of Caleb, a fugitive who may be responsible for the death of a Chicago teenager. Kennedy is not certain that the developmentally disabled character will survive through the season, but he wanted to be on Desperate Housewives badly enough to abandon potentially recurring roles on Showtime's Barber Shop and UPN's Love, Inc.

"I needed this opportunity to play this kind of character," explained Kennedy, a Detroit native who "fell in love with Shakespeare" and studied the Bard in graduate school at the University of Delaware. "This is an opportunity for me to showcase all the years of training I've had."

Though he has appeared on Six Feet Under, Kennedy called Desperate Housewives ""the biggest exposure I'll have gotten" and is thrilled to be working with Woodard, who is his favourite actress.

When Caleb's hand first appeared on the show, the role had not even been cast. "The hand that you saw wasn't even mine...that's why if you go back, the hand looks lighter than me," he told The Philadelphia Daily News.

Kennedy dropped out of a WB midseason series to take the part. He said, "even if they killed me off, I think that the exposure I may get from this show might be bigger than if I lasted five years with Pepper Dennis."

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