“I think the great thing about the character [Tom, 'Desperate Housewives'] and why I, too, want to see this couple survive is that I think it says a great thing about marriage: It can work. People — through enormous conflict and cancer and child birth, all the things they’ve been through — at the end of the day, if they have a respect and love for one another, that gets them through it. So I’m rooting desperately for them.”