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'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR

The Honeymoon's Over is the 10th episo of the fifth season and 108th overall. Jack is ncerned that the "gay mafia" is after him. Grace returns om her honeymoon and fds Karen need of a place to stay after she stops stayg at Will's. After Jack kicked someone out of his actg class... * will and grace gay mafia *

While hidg om the gay mafia, Jack mak several referenc to the Coppola classic The Godfather (1972), a film centered around the Corleone mafia fay New York. Will sarstilly asks if the gay mafia is "gonna make you a iffure you n't refe", parodyg the Don Vo Corleone's le the film "I'm gonna make him an offer he n't refe".

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The Honeymoon's Over: Directed by Jam Burrows. Wh Eric McCormack, Debra Msg, Megan Mullally, Sean Hay. After a displaced Karen is booted om her Palace Hotel digs, a sympathetic Will agre to let her move wh him-at least until she turns his apartment to a feral disaster zone wh her exorbant liftyle, forcg Will to try and unload her onto Grace's shoulrs. Meanwhile, Jack los style pots when he pos gno out of fear that the "Gay Mafia" has out for him." data-id="ma * will and grace gay mafia *

The legendary Elton John played a member of the "gay mafia, " and Jack thought that he (and the rt of the mafia, of urse) was g after him. Durg season two, Neil Patrick Harris played Bill, who intifi as a "former gay man" who tri to make Jack episo mocked the disproven ia of "gay nversn therapy, " a topic later revised the revival. If Will & Grace were beg st for the first time today, Eric McCormack nces, "I probably wouldn't get anywhere near this role"'s bee McCormack is straight, and this era of diversy and thenticy stg would be a bold, perhaps even foolish, cisn to st anyone but a gay actor a seri that puts the character's sexualy ont and he'd be out of a job this hypothetil scenar, the first "gay" man many middle Amerins weled to their hom is OK wh that.