Marcia Cross revives “Desperate Housewives ”character for French TV festival promo

Marcia Cross made a surprise return to Wisteria Lane for a promotional video for a French TV festival.

The actress revived her légendaire Desperate Housewives character, Bree Van de Kamp, for a promo announcing the return of this year's Series Mania, an international festival dedicated to television held annually in Lille, France, in March.

Cross appears about a minute into the video, which first introduces festival director Laurence Herszber as a version of Bree Van de Kamp and festival artistic director Frederic Lavigne as Bree's second husband Orson Hodge, originally played by Kyle MacLachlan.

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In it, Lavigne's television-obsessed housewife is intent on joining in on the festivities after seeing a commercial for the festival. She then calls up Cross on the phone: "Bree? It's Bree. I'm in a very delicate situation."

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"Listen, Bree," says Cross. "One thing I’ve learned over the last eight years living with those ladies is that no holds barred and pretending that you’re pregnant is never a good idea. Good luck, Bree."

From creator Marc Cherry, the Emmy-winning series centered on the lives of a close-knit group of four housewives (played by Cross, Felicity Huffman, Eva Longoria, and Teri Hatcher) in idyllic suburbia. But beneath the picture-perfect facade resides secrets, crimes, and forbidden romances. The ABC drama ran for eight seasons, concluding back in 2012.

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Though it's been about a decade since the show has been on air, Cherry revealed late last year that "about 70,000 people" still pester him about the possibility of a reboot — and he even has "a couple of ideas" for it. It likely would not, however, involve the same cast and time period. "I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade," Cherry told PEOPLE. "Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane."

"That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had," said Cherry. "I know that street like the back of my hand. It was such a fun place to write for. And there's times when I go, 'You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966.'" He added, "If you do a reboot, you have to have a really good artistic reason to do it. And at some point, I'll sit down with someone and go, 'Okay, let's talk about if there's a good enough "why" to do it.'"

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