Has it been a difficult transition going from Broadway to the rigor of doing an hourlong TV series?
We did 16 hours one day this week, and the following day we did about 11 hours. It is so different. Once you kind of adjust, Broadway is this great little structure. You have to do a certain amount of work, and you get paid every Thursday. There’s something sort of taxing and tedious about it, and something sort of wonderful. Yet the kind of part I have on television, right now I work seven or eight days a month. It is wonderful because I can spend a lot of time in New York with my 4 1/2-year-old daughter, Eller. But you have to adjust to the unpredictability and adjust your brain to the fact that you may get a call in New York saying, “You’ve got to get out here now.” Q: I would imagine that as soon as you’d been on your first episode of “Desperate Housewives,” people began recognizing you. A: There was an exponential change. I think nobody is afraid of me because it’s creepy George — fortunately that doesn’t take place. In New York I get a lot of “Did we date? Did we go to high scho
