Eric McCormack On How That “Will & Grace” Reunion Came About

Will & Grace fans were ecstatic this week when the cast returned for a ten-minute mini-episode airing right before the first presidential debate.

It was the first time the cast reunited on a set since the Will & Grace finale a decade ago, but Eric McCormack says it instantly felt like home.

It was actually W&G’s out co-creator, Max Mutchnick, who made it all happen.

“We’re always asked about a reunion, but there were never any plans,” he told People. “Then [Max] came up with this idea of sort of presenting both sides because he kept thinking all of this crazy election [news] would make a great Will & Grace episode.”

It turns out Mutchnick had the entire Will & Grace set—Will’s New York apartment—shipped to Emerson College, where it’s been preserved for the past decade.

“There was some deadline to give it back to him, or he had to give it back to someone else, so it was going to be transported across the country,” revealed McCormick. “That’s when Max dreamed up this idea of a 10-year reunion for the election. It started with him, around early or mid-August. We all immediately said yes and then it became about finding a date.”

They shot the mini-episode on Wednesday, the 18th anniversary of the show’s premiere, and kept it under wraps until Monday. And with America on edge about the Clinton-Trump debate, the timing couldn’t have been better.

But with fans hungry for more, is there a chance we’ll see more of Will, Grace, Jack and Karen?

“If there was a Will & Grace 2.0, my wish is that we’d do 10 [episodes] on, like, Netflix or Amazon or somewhere where it could be the naughty version,” Debra Messing dished to the magazine. “Because, you know, we were on network television and there were certain lines of common storytelling that we were limited to. So it would be fun to kind of go into that world where nothing is held back.”

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Megan Mullally agrees: “I feel great about [the possibility of extending the series]. Anything’s possible!”

McCormack was little more realistic.

“I know a lot of people thought, ’Oh my God, it’s all coming back, it’s starting again,’ but this is what we got today.”

Though, he adds, “Never say never. We’d all be interested to get that call, I think.”

Below, check out some behind-the-scenes photos of the cast during the reunion shoot.







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