DIG DEEP XYZ: James Denton aka Mike Delfino on Awkward Sex Scenes and Tongue Kisses

Hi, Welcome to Desperately Devoted, the Ultimate Desperate Housewives.

Rewatch, hosted by me, Terry Hatcher, my on screen daughter Andrea Boonene, and my real life daughter Emerson Tenny. We are back for our Deep Dive x y Z episode.

We take off my swatter.

Yeah, I think we're all like a little hot in here because we are still here with James Stanton and Jamie Dinton, and we are here for our Deep Dive x y Z episodes and we just want to hear like all the sexy.

Stuff that you didn't tell us.

Doing our other interviewed after dark.

That's right.

Everybody has to lower their their voices lower lower than.

I'm a little horse this week anyway.

So wait, you said something about seeing me in my underwear.

Well, I get horse. I just sound like Bill Clinton. I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

He's not talking about me.

I guess I am.

I guess you are.

Well. I was going to mention. The first thing comes to mind is the first time we were in bed, okay, and you had I remember it well, you had on some like a nighty thing and we still, I mean, we didn't get really close very quickly because it's so I mean, there's are one people, it's so professional, and you come in, you do your job, and you leave.

And you were this is not much after after dark talk, but you were so obsessed with Emerson getting home, and I remember you were so so there wasn't a lot of personal stuff, so you don't know, there's a kind of a it's a little bit cold, new to these scenes, and you're like worried about the crew and it's not however, it was when you're you know, working with you and this all sounds like I'm just you know, that's a Terry Hatcher fan club. It's one of the things that I knew was going to be fun. I was looking forward to. And you this is going to be weird after you've seen you in so many things and movies and shows, and now we're going to be like taking our clothes off and getting in bed as much as

they would let us. And that scene you actually got on top of me. And this was the first one. It was one where you were really coming on strong. So Mike, I remember you stood in the doorway of the bathroom and when like trying to spice things up or something. But I remember very specifically, you got on top of me and I remember, I know, and I remember, and I had on boxers and that was it. And I remember saying to you, you know, if something happens down there, I'm really sorry, and if nothing happens, I'm really sorry. But then sure enough, if you like get into it. And there's a point where yeah, you I mean, people say this all the time, and it doesn't matter if you're married or not married or whatever, and nobody you,

I mean, whatever chemistry we had. If I were a person that had affairs, which I didn't on the show and didn't with you, you wouldn't have none of it. You were very You kept a real respectful distance, and we would always talk about it, even in those situations. Specifically, you would bring up my wife just because, like just to remind us both, not that we needed it, but I appreciated that because it made it so easy. But that day it was funny, because you do sometimes there's a reaction and the physical part of it kind of if you're it all acting, which is just you know, living in imaginary circumstances. Truthfully, there was some truth. So I'm slowly like kind of getting your your hips up on my thighs, like creating some space because I was like, okay,

this all this time, I've heard that these scenes aren't real and nothing, but it was. And so the whole thing became about being respectful. You not like feeling anything weird, and that's not doing anything that's untoward.

And yet Mike was a little wooden after all.

Yeah. So finally final and they're accurate.

Yeah, because this is obviously prior to things like intimacy coordinators, which are now.

Sets. Yeah, it's nice.

It's nice that.

You wanted to create something so real and honest but also always be so respectful and professional.

I'm trying to think of other times in my career when this has come up, and like, I'm immediately thinking of the movie Heaven's Prisoners that I did. By the way, had you ever seen me naked in anything before you met me and before we did these scenes?

I did was the most downloaded image.

But I wasn't naked in that. I was wrapped in Superman's case. Answer, because I had. I had been naked in a couple You said, yes?

Was it the Internet? I mean, because it's there.

The internet was new when the show started almost two thousand.

Well, we didn't have Instagram and Twitter and all that stuff there, so it's not that hard to find it, I know.

And the dark.

Naked has any good Southern boy would say so.

In the movie Heaven's Prisoners, there was a scene in the movie where this character comes out onto this few you know, this balcony, Yeah, like a plantation mansion balcony, naked, and there was It's what I remember about this was we waited.

This was you know, on movie sets.

Like this did not happen on Desperate Housewives, on a movie set like this, this was Alec Baldwin, big movie. We waited seven hours for the clouds, for the DP to be happy with the clouds passing over the sun the way he wanted the lighting to be, so we just didn't shoot anything. And then I was going to walk out onto this balcony and the characters thing was, this is how confident and dominant I am, you know, kind of a big f you to everybody like that.

I don't care what you think. But I'm back off stage going like I think I need ice for my nipples because like it's too hot.

We're in New Orleans.

It's one hundred degrees and humid, and I don't think my breasts look good. Well, my nipples aren't hard, So like, I need to manipulate this whole thing.

And we really did, like we were.

Were using our nipples.

I were raising my numbers worse than that.

Yes, I was manipulating.

You always come up with the good combo words.

I love those.

Manipulating, that's very good word.

Anyways, So that happened on that I remember similar positioned. I sat on top of Kevin Bacon in that same position. It is a big picture, and that was my first movie I ever did. Chris Gastricht that movie. I had never been in any kind of situation like that, where basically Kevin Bacon's a stranger to me at this point and I have to get on top of him and sort of simulate sex.

We were clothed.

How old were you twenty four?

Yeah?

Like so yeah, And I remember I remember thinking what will I do if something happens down there? Or like how how? What is the appropriate way to react? Like that was my first movie. I had no idea what to do. I never I was so scared and ashamed.

He was the big movie star.

I didn't want to do the wrong thing, like you just live in that space where you don't want to cause any problems. And I didn't have the words to even talk about it. So I actually don't know, but I remember that day that I like got in my car and like left the set like I was just like I got to get out of here, Like I just didn't feel like I handled it right or something.

I don't know. Not one with me, no, not one, the one with another one with Kevin.

I want to go back to the two of you obviously, okay outside of the bed or maybe you're going to bring it back there. But you did a lot of things together, not expressly during filming that I feel like would be fun to talk about in this you mean, like banned from TV and from TV or an American idol together. Right?

Did you sing before He's the Island? Are you saying before he cheats on that?

Right?

Ideas?

I remember you were so good, and well, that's unbelievable that I was good, because that was really so. What happened with that is there was a stage where I was trying to get pregnant by myself. I sort of and this is pretty big secret, Like I don't know that I've actually talked about this before with ever. You know, I was doing the whole doctor in Beverly Hills. I was sperm donor shoot yourself up with hormones like all the things, and I had gotten pregnant and nobody knew about it. And then I had a miscarriage and nobody knew about it and that was awful. And then that weekend I got an infection and I so I needed a DNC to lean out my uterus, but nobody really knew that because I was just carrying on with work

and never you know, you can't call him sick in the whole thing. And I got like one hundred and five fever.

I mean it was American Idol finale and you were performing together.

Yes, So this was the night before that next day we were going to be shooting with Bam from TV singing that Carrie Underwood song. And so I ended up in the ovg y n's office like in secret, like with nurses coming in in the middle of the night to like give me a d n C. I don't even remember, like I know that my we went to rehearsal, and that rehearsal for the American Idol, I had like still had I don't think i'd had the Was that the day.

Before or the day? I think I think there was the whole thing the day I think was early the day in the day. Yeah, because you weren't sure you were going to get there. I didn't know, I know know what ing I did until this minute that this was going on. We just thought you had the flu.

Oh yeah, no, no, no so so yeah.

So they had done the DNC the night before, but I still had a high fever and I was like, I don't even know on what kind of drugs. And the American Idol people said that they would not let the band from TV on if I didn't do it, and I did not want to. Everybody was so excited and we'd rehearse and it was like such a big deal American Idol. It was such a big deal for the band from TV, which, which by the way, is a charitable band. Like every time they play, they raise money that they give to charity. It's not nobody's making money.

It's a charity thing. I mean, it's a beautiful cause to.

Pull together with.

Yeah.

Yeah, we went to Canada Netflix events.

We win a lot.

Anyways, I went ahead and like took a bunch of drugs and somehow gone on stage and did it. And what it's so sweet of you to say that you thought I was good, because what I remember is the next morning on the View, Barbara Walters like crucifying, like being like she can't sing. She was like screeching and whatever, and and so then you know, I mean, it is crazy kind of what you remember and how people how you just don't know what people are going through, and then just how hurtful it can all end up.

Yeah, a good lesson is you don't know. Plus it's crazy. I've never heard that from anybody. Everybody talks about how great it was, so oh yeah, well okay, now I've never never heard anybody criticize you.

So that's oh, you know, lots of people.

I mean about that performance shots because I knew how sick you were. I had no idea why that's why you were sick.

And that was the end of me trying to have a child by myself. I just kind of felt like, no idea I was. I think I was about forty one or forty two, and I just felt like, yeah, I guess it's just not supposed to work out, So I kind of didn't want you to be an only child. But then I guess it wasn't meant to be story.

I did know it, but I know nobody else in this room maybe.

No, no idea. You were talking about being prepared because there are actors we all know them, who will take advantage of those scenes. Oh you'll push it, who grope who? Yeah, you hear stories all the time about actors, or not so much actress as usually actors. You hear about the creepy ones that are like, oh, here's an opportunity for me to be, you know, under the guise of r.

The first time I had to do any sort of like makeout scene like thing was for and it was tame because it was Lifetime. But I did a Lifetime movie called Girl Positive, and uh, I think I was sixteen, so two thousand and six, and there was a scene that's a sex scene, you know, and I hadn't done that in real life or on screen yet. And again it was Lifetime, so it wasn't anything explicit, but it was I was uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable with the person I was working with, and it was just not the best environment, and he told me right before they called action, just pretend like we're in a porno.

Oh, he said, oh yeah.

And this is why they now have intimacy coordinators.

I have one question for you.

Yes, and when talking about in these intimate means, obviously you're mostly thinking about okay, we hope like the guy's not like being.

Creepy towards the ground.

Have you ever experienced like someone coming on to you in an intimate scene like that?

Two? Thanks one? One thing before we go, I wanted our first kiss in the truck, but yes, on Desperate Housewives happened. And then our first kiss in the truck, I was like, oh, finally we get to kiss, you know, and le and I thought it was kind of hot and I hoped it would be and you could not have been less interested. Why later, Oh, but at the time I didn't know this, and you, being you, didn't tell me or anyone else. And so you know, I finally lean over and kiss my consus and kiss for the first time, Like, wow, this is not good. I'm going to get fired, Like she does not have any interest in kissing me whatsoever, And all this so called chemistry is out the window and What did I do?

Did I not brush my teeth? What have I done wrong? And you didn't tell me until later, And I think you just didn't want to underlie if she had a broken.

Rib from falling in the kids.

She was twisting in the truck. She was turning in the truck and coming up to leaning over and twisting at the same time with a broken rib. And I was like, my son told you, I'm not going to be on the show for very long. No, because it's very you just you know, let it go. It's not you don't point it up. So I was relieved later to find out you had a broken rib. As far as someone going too far, it wasn't a terrible story.

And I guess I can say this because the woman's name is not of the credits. But when when I marry you the second time, and you're not supposed to know if it's you or Catherine, when Mike is marrying you don't know if it's Katherine or Susan, so neither of you were there. They had an actress who was Brunette a background, put on a veil and marry me.

And I remember Paul, especially Plannette. He was the one that made it the funniest. And we was you know, we would kiss and I would lift the veil and we had to make sure that no one could see the face, I know, if it was you or Catherine. And so I kissed the girl and she was in it and it's like here and I'm like wait, because even when you are making out with somebody like Michael Susan, you don't use tongues and you don't go really fun.

There was this girl's tongue was in my mouth and it was on and we're like getting married. And also I'm thinking they can see your face, so it's not a really much point in your tongue being in my mouth. And so so we cut into this assaulted the cut and she like went on and goes, cut means stop this measure, cut means stop.

Cut means stop.

Anyway, that was a funny one stop.

This is en so good, I think, so thank you so much for revealing revealing stories with x y Z.

Thank you so much, Thank you again.

Thank you, thank you all.

Just really devoted to you. We'll see you next weeks.

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