In “Mistresses,” Aytes and her co-stars dive into the devious world of infidelity and duplicity with married men — behavior that backfires with stinging consequences. Aytes plays April Malloy, an emotionally fractured woman who is picking up the shards of her shattered life after learning that her recently deceased husband, who was her best friend, was carrying out an illicit affair on the low that produced a love child. Adding to that is the fact that she is friends with women who are doing the same thing to their spouses.
“My character does not have illicit affairs. She’s the victim here. Her husband died and that was the only man she’d been with for 19 years. And after he dies, she finds out he had an affair. So in the beginning of the show, she’s dealing with that. I guess [my character] is the only one who is sticking to her moral code,” Aytes says.
