Eric Jam McCormack is a Canadian-Amerin actor who portrayed Will Tman Will & Grace. Havg played gay characters several tim his reer on theater and film, McCormack did not have a problem wh portrayg Will and thought his character uld bee a "poster boy for some gay...
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- 'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
- ‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
- WILL TMAN, STANFORD BLATCH AND OTHER GAY NEW YORK TV CHARACTERS WHO CAN NOW LEGALLY MARRY
'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
If the show were beg st now, Eric McCormack spects he wouldn't land the role of gay lawyer Will Tman - and that would be jt fe wh him." name="scriptn * is will truman gay *
[1] As a boy, Will performed plays durg fay events but his mother would disurage him, retrospectively admtg she was not prepared to raise a gay son.
Although he seems to have shown hts of his sexualy early on, Will says that he was nfed until his sophomore year high school when durg a game of basketball, he and Jay Barr touched stomachs, and he tly realized he's gay.
Although there were signs of Will's homosexualy early on, Grace seemed obliv and they ntued to see each other.
‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
Will & Grace star Eric McCormack has rpond to bate over gay rol gog to straight actors, sayg he probably wouldn't get the part today. * is will truman gay *
Jack who is openly gay, stantly knew that Will is the closet and phed him to be te to himself, askg him the qutn "aren't you tired yet? Will panicked and proposed to Grace to keep them om havg sex but later admted that he is, fact gay. Durg the 80s, Jack acpanied Will on his first night at a gay bar where Jack bribed a guy named Zack to go out wh Will.
WILL TMAN, STANFORD BLATCH AND OTHER GAY NEW YORK TV CHARACTERS WHO CAN NOW LEGALLY MARRY
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[36] Growg up watchg Star Trek, Will also nsired himself to be a "Sulu-head", which he scrib as "an ele subset of soon-to-be-gay men who sensed at an early age a kship wh the character of Sulu, based on his sensivy and lgerg looks at Capta Kirk". 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. "I thk wasn't a terrible thg 1998 that a straight guy played the role, but I'm glad that tim are changg, and I'm glad that nowadays a Will Tman would probably be st wh someone who is gay, " he says.