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Eric McCormack identifies as heterosexual and performed the function of a homosexual man on Will & Grace throughout 11 seasons, eight in its unique run and three in its revival.
The actor was lately interviewed on ITV the place he was requested concerning the debate of a straight actor taking up a homosexual function.
“That’s a tricky one for me as a result of I didn’t turn out to be an actor in order that I may play an actor,” McCormack stated on Good Morning Britain. “There’s no half I’ve ever performed the place I wasn’t taking part in one thing I’m not. It’s a part of the gig.”
He continued, “If homosexual actors weren’t allowed to play straight actors, Broadway could be over. So that is what we do.”
McCormack famous that he desires to suppose that he represented the LGBTQ+ neighborhood nicely, noting, “I got here from the theater, and each considered one of my greatest associates was a homosexual man. So, I believe I took their spirit and their message in what was in any other case only a sitcom and represented, I hope.”
Will & Grace premiered on NBC in 1998, and society has superior since then. Though there have been some big strides in giving alternatives to underrepresented teams, there’s extra that might all the time be carried out.
McCormack was additionally requested if he thinks that he could be forged as Will if the present could be premiering now.
“I assume the reply could be, they’d must say within the casting, ‘And also you’re homosexual, proper?’ Which I don’t suppose they’ll say,” McCormack stated. “I wish to suppose, basically, that the most effective particular person for the function, the one which is available in and knocks it out of the park, is the one which will get the half.”
