Megan Mullally, who is best known for
playing Karen Walker on NBC's Will & Grace, has said Eric
McCormack almost passed on Will & Grace because he didn't
want to play gay.
In an interview with Larry King,
Mullally also said she believes the show could have lasted another
two seasons and revealed that her favorite episode was the show's
series finale.
“The scene that was very hard to get
through was the scene that Sean Hayes and I had together where we …
he played piano and I sang the song Unforgettable and it was,”
she paused, then added, “not a dry eye in the house.”
Mullally said all four of the show's
main characters originally passed on Will & Grace.
“Debra Messing was tired because she
had just done two series back to back and she wanted a break. Eric
McCormack had been playing a manly cowboy on a series in Canada and
he didn't want to play gay. And I can't remember what Sean's thing
was. And then, I had read the script and thought it was quite a lot
like Christine Baranski's role on the series Cybill, which had
just been on right before Will & Grace started. ...”
(Watch
the entire Larry
King Now
interview on Hulu.com.)