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Debra Messing had one request when she signed on to NBC’s “Will & Grace” reboot.

“The only thing that I asked for was that Grace be a feminist,” she told an audience at the Tribeca TV Festival on Saturday night. “That she have a voice.”

Like Messing in real life, on top of being a feminist, Grace Adler is also a democrat. In the premiere episode, Grace will compromise her political beliefs to take a design job.

The 49-year-old actress has been extremely vocal about her political beliefs in the last election, even getting into a Twitter squabble with Susan Sarandon after the staunch Bernie supporter said she would vote for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton.

Messing also talked about the challenges of coming back to her famous role 11 years later.

“I think it took a little bit,” she admitted. “I think the language was there and that I recognized right away and my body recognized it, but you know, its been 11 years and I think that I was a little tentative. I think eventually by the third episode I just sort of relaxed and I was like, ‘OK, she’s back.'”

The ninth season of “Will & Grace” premieres on Sept. 28.