"I never have had a problem sayg who I am," the actor says his first terview wh gay magaze The Advote
Contents:
- WILL AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
- '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 AND GRACE STAR CONFIRMS HE’S GAY
* which actor on will and grace is gay in real life *
Yup, he's gay real life, too. The rolutely private actor recently gave his first terview to gay newsmagaze The Advote after many nied requts. You're gonna shoot the gay guy down?
The star of the popular, Emmy-wng gay s adds, "I feel like I've ntributed monumentally to the succs of the gay movement Ameri, and if anyone wants to argue that, I’m open to .
Everyone remembers the basics: bt iends Will, a gay man, and Grace, a straight woman, live and love Manhattan wh their quirkier iends Jack and Karen. Mutchnick and Eisenberg dated real life, and then beme close iends after Mutchnick revealed he was gay.
'I WOULDN'T GET THIS ROLE TODAY': WILL & GRACE'S STRAIGHT 'GAY' STAR
She also told Kg that McCormack didn't origally want to play a gay character. Actor Sean Hay, who portrayed openly gay character Jack on Will & Grace, didn't e out real life until five years after the show end.
More recently, Hay has revealed that he's "ashamed and embarrassed" he stayed the closet for so long when he might have ma a difference young gay people's liv by g out sooner. Fellow executive producer David Kohan and producer-director Jam Burrows agreed, notg that the show had troduced and normalized gay people for a swath of the public.
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‘WILL & GRACE’ FANS ARE STILL UNSURE IF ERIC MCCORMACK IS GAY REAL LIFE
"But do that mean that now when you walk to a stg room you have to state whether you are straight or gay? "The show has given me a chance to give back, " he says, cg some recent gay-related chary events at which he has appeared. One of the most prolific LGBTQ+ shows of the late 1990s, Will & Grace weled the world to the liv of gay men NYC.
For the first time on televisn, gay men were seen as more than the gay bt iend. They were wrten as three-dimensnal people who loved, stggled their reers, and experienced the same emotnal pth as real gay men. Will & Grace showsed gay men navigatg life and love whout tragedy, somethg so novel, ’s unniable the impact the show had on how gay men were portrayed on televisn.
Will Tman, as portrayed by Eric McCormack, is a brilliant lawyer who stggl to accept himself as a gay man. Out of the four ma Will & Grace st members, the tular pair were the rerved on: openly gay lawyer Will Tman (Eric McCormack) and his (straight-intifyg) terr signer bt iend Grace Adler (Debra Msg). One of the first work seri to regularly feature homosexual characters, Will & Grace was a top-rated h for most of s 1998-2006 n on NBC, wng an Emmy Award for Outstandg Comedy Seri and more trophi for all four members of the ma st.