Is will from will and grace really gay
This September marks 25 years since Will & Grace first aired. Being two years old at the time, I wasn’t fully aware of the significance of a primetime network comedy with two same-sex attracted male leads. Then, growing up, I often heard it referenced as a hack job when it came to gay rights and queer representation, so I set Will & Grace aside as something old-fashioned and made for my parents’ generation, favor Frasier or financial security.
Then I recently took Will & Grace on as a comfort watch and was shocked. Not by it being outdated, but quite the contrary. In , Will & Grace feels like a more honest, self-aware look at gay life in a city than almost any other show I can remember on TV in the last couple of decades.
The show, which originally ran on NBC for eight seasons, follows the amusing and messy personal and romantic escapades of Will (Eric McCormack), a thirty-something gay lawyer, and his straight best companion Grace (Debra Messing), an interior designer, alongside their eccentric sidekicks Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally), whose full-time jobs
Will and Grace Actor Confirms He&#;s Gay
Yup, he's gay in real life, too.
Sean Hayes, who played flamboyant 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 lgbtq+ 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 fire the gay guy down? I never have had a problem 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 star, about to luminary in the Broadway musical Promises, Promises with Kristen Chenowith, still bristles at the idea that he was somehow obligated to reach 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 grasp somebody, then why would you define to them how you live your life?"
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&#;Will & Grace&#; Star Eric McCormack Says Straight Actors Playing Queer Characters Is &#;Part of the Gig&#;
Eric McCormack doesn&#;t believe an actor&#;s sexuality should get in the way of the characters they play onscreen. The Will & Grace star said this week he feels &#;the top 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 gay, 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 thespian so that I could act 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 linear actors, Broadway would be over.&#;
He added, “So this is what we do. I’d like to think that I represent it well. I came from the theater, and one of my bes
Heterosexual 'Will & Grace' Celebrity Eric McCormack Defends Direct Actors Playing Gay
Eric McCormack is straight. Will Truman from Will & Grace, the role he&#;s finest known for, is homosexual. When the sitcom was being 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 approach out when he was cast as Jack. Recollect, this was ; 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 act a gay role without facing some backlash. Or, at the very least, a bunch of ponder pieces making the rounds. See: Kayleigh&#;s feature on Jack Whitehall&#;s controversial recital in Disney&#;s Jungle Cruise.
Recently, Tom Hollander, who played gay 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.&#; B