Report: Mariana Klaveno as the New "Lily Munster"

[JamesG]

Keck's Exclusives: "True Blood" Vet to Play Lily Munster?
Jun 5, 2012
by William Keck


Writer/producer Bryan Fuller has found his ideal Lily Munster for his darkly comic "Munsters" reboot, "Mockingbird Lane". There's just one problem — she's already under contract to "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry for his pilot, "Devious Maids".

After ABC failed to pick up "Devious" to series, it seemed actress Mariana Klaveno would be freed from her role as the self-centered actress wife of Grant Show's daytime soap actor character.

But now that Lifetime has expressed interest in "Devious" (a decision is expected to be reached by week's end before the actors' contracts expire later this month), it's up to Cherry whether or not to release Mariana from the role so she can play the much larger and high-profile part of ageless vampire beauty Lily, who magically materializes from a mass of spiders in Bryan's new version for NBC.





Lily would be Mariana's second vampire role. While the 32-year-old actress has had parts on "Dexter" and "Hawaii Five-0", it was her devilishly delicious turn as Bill's blood-sucking maker Lorena Krasiki on HBO's "True Blood" that led to her now being caught in a tug of war between "Mockingbird Lane" and "Devious Maids".

Should Mariana join Mockingbird, she'll reside in the family's haunted house alongside Jerry O'Connell as Herman, Eddie Izzard as Grandpa and Mason Cook as Eddie.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Kecks-Ex...e-1048515.aspx

[ph1l]

Some sources are saying Portia de Rossi will be playing Lily. Does anyone have the latest?

[comedyfreak]

I'd like to know myself, hate these conflicting reports.

[JamesG]

Portia de Rossi got the role.