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‘Will & Grace’ Star Eric McCormack Says Straight Actors Playing Gay Characters Is “Part of the Gig”
Eric McCormack doesn’t believe an actor’s sexuality should acquire in the way of the characters they participate onscreen. The Will & Grace star said this week he feels “the best person for the role” should be cast in all projects, regardless of the actor’s personal identity.
McCormack, who is straight, played protagonist Will, who is queer, on NBC’s beloved Will & Grace. The player said during a Monday appearance on ITV’s Good Morning Britain reported by Out magazine that “I didn’t become an performer so that I could play an actor.”
“There’s no part I’ve ever played where I wasn’t playing something I’m not,” McCormack continued. “It’s part of the gig. And I’ve always said, if gay actors weren’t allowed to play direct actors, Broadway would be over.”
He added, “So this is what we do. I’d appreciate to think that I represent it well. I came from the theater, and one of my best friends was a gay man. So I think
‘Will and Grace’ Cast: Real-Life Couples, Romances, and Marriages Revealed!
Take The Odd Couple, make one of the roommates a woman and the other a queer man and you’d have a beautiful good sense of the premise behind Will and Grace, the NBC sitcom that ran from 1998 to 2006 before getting a rebirth between 2017 and 2020. The show was a huge hit, built largely on the comic chemistry and relationship between Eric McCormack’s Will Truman, Debra Messing’s Grace Adler, Megan Mullally‘s Karen Walker and Sean Hayes’ Jack McFarland.
On-screen, there was no romance between any of the four main characters — though the show spent much of its age chronicling their intimate misadventures as they searched for accurate love. It’s a search that the cast pursued in their private lives as well — and with much greater success — as you’ll view in this exploration of the real-life couples of the Will and Grace cast.
Eric McCormack and Janet Holden
Eric McCormack (Will Turner) has only been married once, to Janet Holden. They met on the set of the 1994 television series Lonesome Dove, where he portrayed Colonel Franc
Heterosexual 'Will & Grace' Star Eric McCormack Defends Straight Actors Playing Gay
Eric McCormack is straight. Will Truman from Will & Grace, the role he’s top known for, is gay. When the sitcom was organism cast, gay performer John Barrowman was also considered for the role, but producers ultimately decided he was “too straight.” Hmmm. Eric’s co-star Sean Hayes is gay, but he hadn’t publicly come out when he was cast as Jack. Think of , this was 1998; very few openly gay actors were actually cast in gay roles.
But the times they have a-changed (mostly… ish). Now, a straight actor can’t play a homosexual role without facing some backlash. Or, at the very least, a bunch of think pieces making the rounds. See: Kayleigh’s 2018 feature on Jack Whitehall’s controversial act in Disney’s Jungle Cruise.
Recently, Tom Hollander, who played homosexual characters in White Lotus and Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, felt compelled to inform Vanity Fair that his “own sexuality is sufficiently liberal to have encompassed many different experiences, which are not anyone’s business.” But the actor, who’s been with his
‘Will & Grace’ Star Eric McCormack On Straight Actors Playing Gay Roles: “I Didn’t Become An Thespian So That I Could Play An Actor”
Eric McCormack identifies as heterosexual and played the role of a gay man on Will & Grace across 11 seasons, eight in its original run and three in its revival.
The actor recently was interviewed on the UK’s ITV, where he was asked about the debate of a straight performer taking on a same-sex attracted role.
“That’s a tough one for me because I didn’t become an actor so that I could play an actor,” McCormack said on Good Morning Britain. “There’s no part I’ve ever played where I wasn’t playing something I’m not. It’s part of the gig.”
He continued: “If queer actors weren’t allowed to play straight actors, Broadway would be over. So this is what we do.”
McCormack noted that he wants to think that he represented the LGBTQ+ community adequately, noting: “I came from the theater, and every one of my foremost friends was a male lover man. So I ponder I took their essence and their message in what was otherwise just a sitcom and represented, I h
Will and Grace Star Confirms He’s Gay
Yup, he's homosexual in real life, too.
Sean Hayes, who played extravagant Jack McFarland on NBC's Will and Grace for eight years, has publicly confirmed his sexuality for the first time.
The resolutely private actor recently gave his first interview to gay newsmagazine The Advocate after many denied requests.
The Advocate and other media had long criticized Hayes, 39, for not confirming what many have called the "open secret" of his sexual orientation.
"Really? You're gonna shoot the homosexual guy down? I never have had a issue saying who I am," Hayes says in the new cover story.
"I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never," he states.
The actor, about to star in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises with Kristen Chenowith, still bristles at the idea that he was somehow obligated to come out earlier. "Nobody owes anything to anybody," he says. "You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don't know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you stay your life?"
The star of the popular, Emmy-winning same-sex attracted sitcom adds, "I notice like I've contributed monumentally to the success o