McCormack: ‘We gave ‘Will & Grace’ the ending it deserved’

Will & Grace

 star Eric McCormack has said that the show “got the ending it deserved”.

The hit US sitcom about a gay man, McCormack’s Will, and his straight female best friend, Debra Messing’s Grace, originally ran on NBC for 184 episodes between 1998 and 2006.

The show’s finale fast-forwarded the beloved characters 20 years into the future as they dropped their teenage children off at college – the place Will and Grace themselves had once met.

“We definitely gave the show the end it deserved and it also took away the temptation to go back to that because I think we would only damage what we did at the end,” said McCormack.

“I always thought that was one of the best things the writers ever did; to create the illusion for one second that you were seeing Will & Grace at 18 meeting each other, until they introduce themselves and you realise that it’s their children.”

McCormack continued: “When we had the read through around the table for that, all of us gasped. And the night we shot it, the gasp from the audience followed by us coming on in old-age make up was pretty effective I think.”

To read our full interview with Eric McCormack, in which he also discusses his current US drama series Perception and whether he is mistaken for being gay, click here.