"Desperate Housewives" star Marcia Cross told the LA magazine Venice that she used to fantasize that she was being directed by great directors when she was playing psychotic Kimberly Shaw on "Melrose Place" because the scripts were "a joke."
Cross said she had to make believe just to endure the grind of making the show for over four years: "I'd pretend it was actually Martin Scorsese directing, and I was, say, Michelle Pfeiffer."
"I swear that is what I would do, so that the stakes would become really high and it wouldn't be just another day on the set."
Cross admits she sometimes does the same thing on the set of D-Wives in a bid to make sure she's giving her best performance. She adds, "I was pretending that I was acting with Al Pacino, thinking, 'This is your big moment.' Things like that keep you at the top of your game."
