Debra Messing

Messing – who is currently starring in Smash – told TV Guide that she’s offered her apartment to McCormack when he moves to New York City in the coming months.

“Eric’s moving to New York this spring to do a Broadway play [The Best Man], so I’ve told him he can have my guest room and we could live together again,” the actress revealed.

McCormack and Messing co-starred as best friends on Will & Grace for eight seasons between 1998 and 2006.

Messing has recently been rumoured to be dating her Smash co-star Will Chase. Smash director Michael Mayer appeared to confirm the romance by saying: “On Broadway, we call it a ‘showmance’. That’s where people meet and fall in love.”

Smash airs Mondays at 10/9c on NBC.

Source

Gallery Links:
Magazine & Photoshoots > 2010 > Entertainment Weekly – October 2010

Gallery Links:
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 1 > Promo Pictures
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 2 > Promo Pictures
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 3 > Promo Pictures
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 4 > Promo Pictures
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 5 > Promo Pictures
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 6 > Promo Pictures
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 7 > Promo Pictures
Television Works > Will & Grace (1998-2006) > Season 8 > Promo Pictures

Source

Will & Gace

Where there was a Will, there was a Grace. From 1998 to 2006, a fastidious lawyer (he’s gay!) and his neurotic interior-designer roomie (she’s straight!) took platonic love to new levels on NBC’s hit sitcom Will & Grace. Four years later, we found ourselves still pining for the clever wordplay and rat-a-tat energy of Will (Eric McCormack) and Grace (Debra Messing), who navigated New York life aided by sassy sidekicks Jack (Sean Hayes) and Karen (Megan Mullally). But when we brought McCormack, 47, and Messing, 42, together for an anything-goes photo shoot, we weren’t exactly reuniting long-lost friends: The two stay in touch regularly. Just don’t hold your breath for one more W&G installment, as the finale already gave us a peek 25 years into the future. “I don’t know how it would be possible,” says Messing, who went on to earn two Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nod for her role on USA’s The Starter Wife. Adds McCormack, who starred on TNT’s Trust Me and is now developing a film adaptation of Linwood Barclay’s thriller No Time for Goodbye: “I hope one day we get to sit on stools and look at outtakes and laugh, so that people in America can go, ‘God, how they’ve aged! They look awful!’ ”

EW: When was the last time you two saw each other?

Debra Messing: [To McCormack] It was for your birthday. We went out for lunch.

[Turning to EW] That’s going to be a very boring answer for your interview because you probably want to hear that it was four years ago.

Eric McCormack: Chateau Marmont.

DM: Just the two of us.

EM: There should have been paparazzi. Nothing. [Disappointedly shaking head] Nothing.

DM: And it was to celebrate his birthday and yet he paid. How did that work?

[To McCormack] Let’s do it again.
EW: What’s your favorite moment from the show?

DM: I still love the flashback episode of us back in the ’80s. We just looked so ridiculous with our bilevel haircuts and mullets. It was just so sweet to act out that moment when they were actually thinking that they were lovers.

EM: I looked at an episode the other day where we spend the entire episode sitting on a therapist’s couch. And it was heaven. Because there was nothing to worry about—no cameras, no blocking. We simply just behaved.

EW: What’s one secret from the Will & Grace set that can finally be told?

DM: [Sean Hayes] ran naked through the parking lot as soon as we finished our three-hour conference on sexual harassment. They released us, and then he dropped his pants and just walked [whistling innocently] through the parking lot. It was probably the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. To this day.
EW: We caught a glimpse of the future in the finale, but where are Will and Grace today? What happened to them?

EM: Murder, probably. I’m not going to say who would kill who.

DM: Or maybe the four of us would open up a club in Vegas.

EM: I like that. Or a doo-wop act that we’d take on the road.

DM: We always wanted to do a musical episode, and it never happened.

EM: It actually aggravates me. Because Scrubs did it and now How I Met Your Mother did it. And it’s like, c’mon!

DM: [Stroking McCormack’s arm] It’s okay…

EM: Why didn’t that happen?

DM: [To EW] See, this is what I do. I’m the sugar, he’s the salt.

Source

“‘Will & Grace’ was the first television series to spotlight the unique bond between a gay man and a straight woman,” said Marc Leonard, SVP of Multiplatform Programming, Logo.  ”And everyone in our core audience, whether they’re the gay friend or straight friend in the equation, can relate to their own inner ‘Will’ or ‘Grace’; and if you can make self-absorption seem adorable, welcome to ‘Team Jack’ or ‘Team Karen.’”

“Logo will provide a good television home for ‘Will & Grace,’” said Ken Werner, President, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.  ”This Emmy® Award-winning, wickedly witty comedy with its distinctive style will bring many of its loyal fans to Logo.  This sale continues to reaffirm the long term value of off-net series to attract loyal audiences.”

“Will & Grace” takes place in New York City and follows the lives of Will Truman (Eric McCormack), a gay man and mostly-uptight attorney, and his best friend Grace Adler (Debra Messing), a mostly-frantic straight woman who runs her own interior design firm.  Lifelong friends brought together as roommates by Grace’s abrupt divorce, the series follows the duo and their “odd couple” antics as they navigate the big city in their search for love.  Also featured are their friends Karen Walker (Megan Mullally), a rich socialite, and Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes), a struggling actor/singer/dancer who also has had brief careers as an acting teacher, back-up dancer, cater-waiter, talk-show host and student nurse.  Throughout the comedic mayhem, this unlikely foursome proves that the bonds of friendship can transcend social status, sexual orientation and gender.

“Will & Grace” stars Emmy® Award-Winners Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally.  Notable guest stars in the series include, Woody Harrelson, Harry Connick, Jr., Debbie Reynolds, Geena Davis, Gregory Hines, Bobby Cannavale, Minnie Driver, Cher, Patrick Dempsey, Lily Tomlin, among many others.

Emmy® winners David Kohan and Mac Mutchnick were the creators and Executive Producers of “Will & Grace.”  Alex Herschlag and Dave Flebotte served as executive producers and showrunners.  Multi-Emmy@ winner James Burrows (NBC’s “Frasier” and “Friends”) was Director and Executive Producer.  ”Will & Grace” is from KoMut Entertainment in association with NBC Universal Television Studio and Three Sisters Entertainment.  ”Will & Grace” is distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Source